Sanderling

What it does

Sanderling designs bobbin lace: Torchon, Bucks Point and Bedfordshire. Place the shapes with a tap, and one design gives you the pricking, the pair diagram and the thread diagram together, then takes you through it at the pillow, stitch by stitch.

One design, three views

• Pricking. Every pinhole on its grid.
• Pair diagram. Where each pair travels and the stitch it makes, in colour with the stitch letters.
• Thread diagram. Worked out thread by thread from the stitches you chose, so it always matches them: turn a cloth diamond into half stitch and you see the threads mix.

Three laces

• Torchon. Ground, cloth and half-stitch diamonds, rose ground and spiders with 8, 12 or 16 legs, each placed with a tap on a pin. Twisted footsides, fan headsides in cloth, half stitch or cloth and twist, a turned corner, and repeats along an edging. When a shape would leave pairs loose, Sanderling says so and why.
• Bucks Point. Point ground on a grid from 50° to 72°, honeycomb, cloth motifs outlined with gimps, a gimp carried on from one motif to the next, catch pins and fans.
• Bedfordshire. No grid: put pins where you like and join them with plaits, tallies, leaves, picots, trails, kisses and footsides, or start from a nine-pin edge. Joins follow the rules of the lace.

At the pillow

The working order lists every stitch: its number, its code (CT pin CT), every move in words and the pairs in hand. Big Back and Next buttons sit under your thumb, the volume keys step too, and the screen stays on. A small map shows where you are in the design.

Bobbins and thread

Pair and bobbin counts, a winding list with the thread to wind on each pair (with the take-up and allowance you set), and a thread check for the grid spacing you chose.

Print and share

• Pricking PDF. True size on A4 or US Letter, tiled across sheets, with a 10 cm check bar.
• Diagrams. Pair and thread diagrams as PNG and PDF.
• Lists. The working list and a winding card.
• Guild bundle. All of them in one PDF.
• Save or send. Save any of them to your files, or on Android send them with the share sheet.

Free, and one purchase

Free: Torchon ground and cloth diamonds on bands up to 12 squares wide, all three views, the working order at the pillow, the winding list, the pair diagram and three saved designs.

Sanderling Unlock, bought once, adds half-stitch diamonds, rose ground, spiders, headsides, Bucks Point and Bedfordshire, wider designs, the true-size pricking PDF, the thread diagram export and unlimited designs. No subscription, no ads.

Private

No account, no tracking, no network. Your designs stay on your Mac, phone or tablet.