Category: bobbin lace

  Now that I’m feeling a little more confident in being able to make lace, it was time to work out a sampler for students to work on in order to learn some of the basic ‘stitches’. I figured out how to print out graph paper to a desired size, then marked out a simple…

  Nancy asked how I used the mylar thread in my lace.  This is a bookmark I made a while ago (a really long while ago!) The shiny thread in this one isn’t the same as the hologram thread I’m using in the current bookmark, but shows how I use it.  Normally I will wind…

  Nancy asked how I used the mylar thread in my lace.  This is a bookmark I made a while ago (a really long while ago!) The shiny thread in this one isn’t the same as the hologram thread I’m using in the current bookmark, but shows how I use it.  Normally I will wind…

  Could not get to sleep last night and in the end gave up trying for a while and decided to distract myself by working on the bobbin lace bookmark on my pillow. It isn’t ‘pretty’ but it’s done.  It could use a good pressing, although there are a few issues with tension (I’m out…

 but on a much smaller scale! After sorting through my bobbin lace supplies over the past few days and getting one-on-one ‘classes’ set up for next month, I quite literally dusted off one of my pillows and set about trying to get this tiny star finished.  It is barely larger than a dollar coin and…

  This past week I spent some time locating the various bins and boxes of bobbin lace ‘stuff’, then emptying and sorting the ‘stuff’. The goal is to offer private lessons to anyone interested, and be able to sell them a beginner’s kit to get them going, if they decide they want to continue. In…

  This past week I spent some time locating the various bins and boxes of bobbin lace ‘stuff’, then emptying and sorting the ‘stuff’. The goal is to offer private lessons to anyone interested, and be able to sell them a beginner’s kit to get them going, if they decide they want to continue. In…

  This past week I spent some time locating the various bins and boxes of bobbin lace ‘stuff’, then emptying and sorting the ‘stuff’. The goal is to offer private lessons to anyone interested, and be able to sell them a beginner’s kit to get them going, if they decide they want to continue. In…

  Coming down to the ‘end’ of the current spate of tea towels, and this one is showing some promise.  I’m going to tweak the treadling, I think, see if I can ‘counter change’ (checker board) the motifs.  But even if I can’t, I think I’ll weave this, just to see how it turns out.…