Ripple Fish - Pointed Corner Technique

 Ripple Fish 

Another addition to the Adventurous Aquarium set of free patterns available on this blog, my Lesley's Lace facebook page and with a few technique videos on my YouTube channel.  The Ripple Fish uses an Idrija style corner which gives a nice strong point.  

This pattern uses one pointed corner technique on every turn.   The pointed, or acute angle corner uses two sewings and four fixing stitches (sometimes called turning stitches in some laces). A fixing stitch is shown on a pattern as a circle around a join.  A sewing is shown as a pointed thread linking to a previous thread.   The sewings use temporary pins which are not replaced after the sewing.  To make a sewing, draw the thread of one bobbin through the temporary hole using a crochet hook or similar. Pass the second bobbin through the loop of the first bobbin and draw through and snuggle up to the trail. This is shown in the YouTube video of making the Pointed Corner.   https://youtu.be/ZimQzkBlMLI

Many corners suffer with the passives pulling away from the top pin, this version uses fixing, sometimes called turning stitches at the point which fills the space and stops the threads pulling away from the pin.   If the passives feature specific colours along the trails, they will get mixed up in this technique, so, decide if you want that to be a design choice, or double up the twist in a fixing stitch to keep the passive colours in order as you work the corner.  

The open spaces in this fish can be filled with a ground of your own choice after the fish is completed.  I chose to leave them open to echo ripples of sunlight coming through the water on the fish scales. 

Download - .pdf of the pattern from the Files tab on my Lesley's Lace facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/groups/907516516997481/