LaceRotAlong 2024: Armenian Needle Lace (notes-in progress)

[rugessnome]

So, over on tumblr lacerotalong is doing a type of lace per month for the year, and I don't dispute that BecomeInspired has a very useful tutorial, but the playlist of the needle lace videos seems to be somewhat haphazardly organized. I'm diving in, I guess, and making some notes about the content covered in the videos--hopefully I will be able to extend this to cover most if not all of her Armenian lace videos, particularly those in the playlist. 

1. Needle Lace for Beginners (Part 1 of 8): discusses thread and supplies/setup briefly--DMC Cebelia #20 is linked in the description; how to begin with a ring; how to do the basic stitch; how to close the first round into a small ring. Pattern covered: Rnd 1 - ring of 12 petals; Rnd 2 - join the petals with small spaces.
2. NLfB (Part 2 of 8): covers the "over" joining stitch, a tightening tip. Pattern covered: Rnd 3 - in each space, *joining stitch, very small petal/"seed", larger petal, very small petal*
3. NLfB (Part 3 of 8): mentions end of round join, brief discussion of spacing, cutting off tails. Pattern covered: Rnd 4 - work ~medium spaces between the petals
4. NLfB (Part 4 of 8): brief petal sizing tip. Pattern covered: Rnd 5 - in each space, *joining stitch, very small petal/seed, 3 larger petals, very small petal*
5. *NLfB (Part 5 of 8): Pattern covered: Rnd 6 - work spaces between the petals--two smaller spaces are needed between the adjacent petals, and then a slightly larger space to connect them to the the petals on the next space over.
6. *NLfB (Part 6 of 8): how to join new thread! Pattern covered: Rnd 7: work small "seed" arcs between each space, but put an extra stitch into the larger spaces. Rnd 8-11(?): Continue working small seed arcs.
7. [NLfB (Part 7 of 8)]
8. [NLfB (Part 8 of 8)]
9. to be continued...

*I am going to review these videos again; summary may be incomplete.