How to Make Battenberg and Point Lace - Overcasting

Overcasting

After the braid has all been carefully basted into place, the full inner edgs of the curves must also be brought into place. To do this they must be overcast with a very fine linen thread. This overcasting thread should pass over and over the edge of the braid and into each of its marginal loops. Only occasionally, on very large, slightly curved lines, may a loop be here and there omitted.

On the edges of spaces to be filled with twisted bars, spiders, wheels, and other similar stitches where the working thread must pass from point to point along the edge of the braid, the overcasting may be omitted, and the passage of the working thread utilized to draw the braid into place as it proceeds in its course of completing the stitch.

Familiarity with the work will show when the work of overcasting may in this way be lessened. The overcasting thread should not be drawn tight enough to draw the braid from its plae on the pattern, but it shoud be tight enough to hold the inner gathered edge smoothly down to the pattern, where it must fit as flatly as its opposite outer edge.

Whenever the overcasting thread reaches a place where two edges of the braid meet or cross, the needle should be passed through both braids, either in a simple overcasting stitch or with a single buttonhole knot. When the thread passes from one side to the other of two braid edges the thread should connect them at both sides.

When in the course of the overcasting the curve of the braid changes, and the inner curve becomes the outer one, a buttonhole stitch should be taken in the edge of the braid at the point where the curve changes and the thread carefully woven through the braid to its opposite side, where another buttonhole stitch should be taken and the overcasting continued.

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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