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Pattern Codes
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 Level 7 Level 8
Level 1 Patterns
(Near beginners)
- Set in using temporary pins at the top of a pricking
- Work torchon ground (half stitch, pin, half stitch)
- Work woven fans with a torchon stitch edge (a.k.a. double half stitch, cloth and twist, firm edge).
- Work woven blocks in either half stitch or cloth stitch
- Work a torchon footside edge (a mounting edge)
- Work edgings with corners
- Move lace up a pricking
- Join lace end to end by taking sewings.
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Level 2 patterns
(Near beginners who have all level 1 plus the following skills.)
- Simple spiders (worked with either four pairs or six pairs)
- Rose ground
- Brabant ( or Honeycomb) ground
- Use gimp to outline simple pattern elements
- Work cloth stitch fans with a torchon stitch edge
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Level 3 patterns
- Accurately estimate thread requirements for patterns
- Use gimp threads to outline and separate grouped woven blocks
- Work square mats
- Work patterns with insertion edges
- Work woven lozenge and chevron shapes
- Work terminating trails with a crow's foot directional change or by using the same pin twice.
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Level 4 patterns
- Work crossing trails in cloth stitch and half stitch
- Work dropped line directional changes for cloth stitch trails
- Work twisted central divisions within cloth stitch pattern elements
- Work torchon stitch (double half stitch) central divisions in cloth stitch woven pattern elements.
- Work other single pin grounds such as Dieppe, pin stitch/pinhole, double, torchon with 2 twists etc.
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Level 5 patterns
- Work compound spider ground
- Use gimp to create patterns
- Set in and finish at a point (for bookmarks and similar) so both ends look the same
- Set in and work four sided insertion edges (narrow)
- Work simple edgings plotted on circular grids
- Work ribbed fans such as crown, little crown or fishtail.
- Work cuffs or other rectangular pieces in three sections
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Level 6 patterns
- Understand thread movements within patterns
- Work complex edgings plotted on circular grids
- Work straight lengths with a footside edge suitable for gathering
- Work whole stitch ground
- Work point d'esprit (square tallies) straight on in place of a ground stitch
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Level 7 patterns
- Set in and work four sided insertion edges, both narrow and wide
- Work rectangular mats in four sections with central sewings
- Work square ground/s
- Work haloed spiders
- Work two pin rose ground
- Work large pea (spider with open centre)
- Work point d'esprit (square tallies) angled in place of a ground stitch
- Work shaped point d'esprit to create flower shapes in torchon or rose ground
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Level 8 patterns
- Work cuffs or other rectangular pieces in three sections (without instruction or diagrams)
- Set in and work two piece collars without instruction so that the finish reflects the setting in
- Set in and work single piece round, shawl or square collars and/or yokes
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