I thought I had lost this piece of lace for good, but found it yesterday. I did this in 1999, right before I finally figured out the tatting thing. Once bitten by the tatting bug, no more needle lace! Still, I enjoyed doing this and was upset that it had gotten misplaced in the move. Now it is hanging up in my bedroom. I will need to change the background color to green, but it needs reframing anyway.
I will now have to find the book from which I got the pattern. It is a big book, I think from Reader's Digest, on all kinds of needlework. There is a tatting pattern in there I have been meaning to use too.
8 comments:
I love this! Tatting is the only lacemaking technique I have ever tried. I am afraid to branch out as I feel it would detract from my devotion to tatting.
Thanks. I like it, but there is no chance anything could be as spellbinding as tatting! I used to do hairpin and broomstick lace, but no comparison.
Your sampler is beautiful! I have that Readers Digest book, and I just looked up the sampler. Yours is prettier! I forgot there were tatting patterns in there... I'll have to try some.
Thanks Diane. You flatter me too much, I think! I would like to make the shawl with the tatted flowers and vines on it from that book.
Wgat a beautiful sampler. Do you think a similar kind of sampler can be made with tatting? Hmm... got me thinking there...
This is really pretty...needle lace has always seemed too difficult for me to try, though I sometimes do bobbin lace.
Snowy, I can't imagine needle lace being near as difficult as bobbin lace. However, I have never tried bobbin lace, so who knows?
Laura, bobbin lace is just a method of weaving really...I will try and show you some, when I get back from the dog show, next week.
It's fun but nothing beats tatting for portability, lace making carreaux cannot be slipped into work or hidden in your bag!
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