How to start in Bucks Point Bobbin Lace - working a point ground sample - Lesson one.

This features the first sample pattern strip to learn the techniques of point ground, catch pins and a change of worker edge. The basics found in all Bucks point patterns in some form or other.

[@victoriasadoff7684]

Not only do I find the videos extremely helpful, I also love the opening and closing sounds of the clickety clacking bobbins.

[@LouiseWestLace]

Thanks for the comment, glad you like the bobbins clacking... they are rosewood bobbins I recorded for the soundtrack.. rosewood makes a lovely sound but difficult to buy now, as the wood is protected under CITIES.

[@robinbutler3333]

I agree completely, on both points!

[@motorracingrabbit571]

Please please more bucks point videos they are really helpful!!

[@LouiseWestLace]

Thanks for the comment.. I have so many planned.. It's what I get asked for gets filmed first.. more coming soon, keep watching

[@motorracingrabbit571]

Brilliant can’t wait to see the videos. Thank you so much for making these tutorials they are really helpful.

[@SparkleKnits]

I just received my workbook today, and then you uploaded this video! I’m brand-new to lacemaking, so I’m going to continue working through my torchon book, but then I’m looking forward to starting your book. I love the look of Bucks Point over all the other lace I’ve seen.

[@LouiseWestLace]

Thanks for the comment. I am planning more from the workbook, so hope it helps when you start.

[@user-xe3kv1sj5q]

Great videos Louise, this one reminded me as I got going on Bucks Point again after years of continental lace, thank you. I have got the workbook and the videos really help.

[@LouiseWestLace]

Thanks for the feedback.. keep watching more coming soon.

[@johnoleary5293]

I’ve been loving your videos - clear explanations with a clear view of what’s going on. Truly the best kind of instructional video. I’ve just ordered your Bucks book and first Bucks pattern pack. I’m not new to bobbin lace. In fact I was very good at it, even winning prizes with Bucks and fine torchon pieces. However it’s many years since I’ve done it. Life takes over etc…. For a long time I’ve been wanting to get back to it, and now you’ve really inspired me. I truly don’t want to get to the end of my life wishing I’d done more of this.

[@LouiseWestLace]

Thank you for the comments, so happy to have inspired you to do more. Hopefully you will enjoy the book. More videos coming soon when I return from current travels.

[@BrooklynneMichelle]

Thank you so much for this video, I have your workbook and I was about to lose my mind! This solved my issue, coming from torchon. I was working back and forth!

[@LouiseWestLace]

Glad to hear it helped.

[@vickim4963]

Thanks so much for this video, I just received the your work book so I am eager to get started. This video is so helpful! I enjoy your teaching very much!

[@LouiseWestLace]

Thanks for the comment and feedback. Welcome to the world of Bucks Point lace.

[@medicalherbalist2216]

Thank you for this, I'm refreshing my skills and seeing you work was very helpful indeed.

[@LouiseWestLace]

Thanks for the feedback... let me know if there's any other techniques you would like to see.

[@medicalherbalist2216]

@@LouiseWestLace thank you very much indeed. I'd like to be refreshed on starting in a straight line rather than at an angle, and I can see nook pins coming up soon!

[@LouiseWestLace]

@@medicalherbalist2216 I'll add that to my list.. and film it soon.

[@medicalherbalist2216]

@@LouiseWestLace thank you! very kind of you

[@medicalherbalist2216]

@@LouiseWestLace I'm about to lift, AND turn a corner, yikes! keep the videos coming please.

[@KW-hs3sv]

Great for grasping catch pins, they can be tricky to get your head around!

[@LouiseWestLace]

Thanks for the feedback.

[@danlast4726]

This is fantastic! thank you!

[@LouiseWestLace]

Glad it helped!

[@angelarawlins3703]

Very helpful

[@LouiseWestLace]

Glad it helped

[@aprilmucklow7262]

Hi Louise Could you do some more videos on basic torchon techniques, how to work out how many pairs in a pattern and calculating how much thread to wind on your bobbins for a pattern? Please l love your videos they are really easy to follow thank you. X April from Warwickshire

[@LouiseWestLace]

I am planning a really basic one, so that idea would follow on from the planned one. thanks for the suggestion

[@suem6004]

I so appreciate the video as I am buying your workbook today. I did do basic bucks with Susie Johnson at IOLI so know some terms before watching your video. Was helpful to see how you started with temp pins. Also, how you did the footside. But the headside with the twists around the pin was not clear to a virtual beginner. You just did it with little explanation. Just an observation. Perhaps all that is in your workbook? I look forward to learning from you. Can you tell me the pins I will need as I go through the workbook? Thanks

[@LouiseWestLace]

Thanks for the comment. The picots I had covered in another video... so didn't want to make it too long and left it out of this one. Trying to not make them too long. The one I use are 0.5mm and an inch and a quarter long. Any reasonably fine pin will be suitable. More videos coming soon.

[@beagleissleeping5359]

I've noticed one of my worker bobbins migrates from the footside to the headside, leaving its partner behind. Any advice/helpful comments?

[@LouiseWestLace]

the ground stitch is half stitch (and twists) so this happens, its not something you can avoid or would want to... it means you are doing the ground correctly.

[@johnoleary5293]

And when you finish that line of ground, by holding that bobbin and gently stroking the other pairs, you will end up with a very neat row of point ground.

[@thereisnospoon12]

Well-done video. I've ordered one of your books. What do you mean by not "covering" your pin as in other style laces?

[@LouiseWestLace]

Thanks for the message. I torchon ground for example you work the pin as half stitch pin half stitch- the stitch after the pin uses the same two pairs and puts the stitch both sides of the pin. In bucks point ground, you work the point ground stitch (half stitch and 2 twists) and the pin.. however no stitch is worked with the same pairs.. you just move on down the diagonal direction to work next pin.

[@jenniferwhite1127]

really good demonstration. Wish my eyesight was better though.

[@LouiseWestLace]

Thanks for the comment. Do you mean your eyesight for making lace, or because the video isn’t showing it close enough? There are excellent magnifiers out there, that I have found students find beneficial. If you mean it’s not close enough, I am trying to balance the need to see the threads/bobbins moving for the stitches, with the closeness to the work. Additionally despite enlarging it, Bucks point is by nature a finer lace, so slightly more difficult. If you’re viewing on a mobile device, it might help watching on a larger desktop monitor, or through a TV screen?

[@jenniferwhite1127]

@@LouiseWestLace yes sorry my eyesight for making the lace. Yes I must try with a magnifier. My reading glasses are close up and the distance between pillow seems a bit too far away. Your demonstration is really good no worries there.

[@LouiseWestLace]

@@jenniferwhite1127 some lacemakers find a single vision lens glasses are better for lace than bifocals or varifocals, it’s worth when having an eyesight check to take either a small lace pillow or piece of lace with you so that you can be tested for that specific use. Not all opticians understand what lacemaking entails but can help you when they do. Mine has been great once she saw lace.