Serpentine

This was a fun one. The thread is so soft and delicate that I expected to be dealing with a lot of snapped threads, but it never came to pass — not even one broken thread in the whole project! Smooth as butter. This is the first time I’ve worked a pattern that requires adding and removing gimps during the work… it went okay. There is supposedly a way to finish them off seamlessly, but I couldn’t figure it out so I just overlapped the ends which does look a tiny bit messy. Also if you look very close you can see where I accidentally pulled on the loose end of one of the gimps while I was taking pins out and it scrunched up the motif. Devastating! Overall though, I’m very pleased with how this one turned out.

Notes

Pattern: Serpentine from A Visual Introduction to Bucks Point Lace by Geraldine Stott

Thread: Brok 100/2 cotton in ecru

Gimps: 8 ply of the base thread

Pins: .5mm pins throughout

Picots: I was not consistent with the number of twists around the picots

Started: January 28, 2020

Finished: August 23, 2020