How to Make Battenberg and Point Lace - Basting the Rings

Basting the Rings to the Pattern

When basting on the rings it is well to remember that the basting threads have to be removed later. Only enough are needed to hold the ring in place. If the needle is thrust through the ring four times, twice downwards and twice upwards, it is sufficient. As the rings are not exactly alike on both sides, it is necessary, when placing them, to be very careful to see that the same side is always uppermost.

Very pretty effects are obtained by graduating the size of the rings in a row or series.

The center ring may be the largest and those on either side may decrease in size as they approach the end or point of the or point of the space allotted to them,or a large ring may lead a row of others of decreasing size.

When the pattern requires the rings to be placed so close together that they touch, they should be united by threads entering each ring at one point only, and these uniting threads should not be drawn tight enough to bring the rings firmly together, but should serve as a hinge, which, while it keeps the rings together, allows them to move freely.

Rings should, under no circumstances, be sewed together along their circumferences, as the effect is stiff and clumsy, and not at all dainty and lace like.

It is best to baste the rings to the pattern only as the progress of the work requires. The working thread is very apt to catch between the basted rings and the pattern, and so delay the work.

After the work of attaching the rings to the braid with the lace stitches has been completed, it is impossible for the thread to catch in this manner.

Tutorial 1 === Battenberg and Point Lace Selection of Materials

Tutorial 2 === Basting and Overcasting

Tutorial 3 === Turning Corners

Tutorial 4 === Scallops and Loops

Tutorial 5 === Overcasting

Tutorial 6 === Cutting the Braid

Tutorial 7 === Basting the Rings

Tutorial 8 === Fastening the Thread

Tutorial 9 === Preparing a Sampler

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