Techniques

Alternate Spaces - pick up or work only the spaces that form a perpendicular line with the working edge

Mitered Start/Finish (working in raw edges)

Ball Front/Ball Back (crochet)
Skip Stitch (skip x spaces between stitches - knit)

Working With Ruffle Width

• Work First and Second (Third, Fourth) mesh (Threads 1-x) together
• Work Thread 2, 3, 4 (Second, Third, Fourth Mesh)
• Work As Yarn
• Ruching
• Shell in Yarn (Scallop)

Pleating

• Corkscrew Pleat (Bullion Stitch)
• Accordion Pleat
• Knife Pleat
• Box Pleat
• Inverted Pleat

Hairpin Lace Techniques

• Work as insertion
• Treat as hairpin lace - see Red Heart Boutique Filigree "Wrap and Go Shawl" http://www.redheart.com/free-patterns/wrap-and-go-shawl)
• Crochet borders to attach strips
• Interlaced borders to attach strips
• Self Fagoting (Butterfly stitch, seaming without yarn)

Net Lace Techniques

• Darning
• Weaving
• Punto in Aria