Hi, I'm confined to the house at the moment with a chest infection. If I move, I cough, if I talk . I cough so I'm waiting , not too patiently for the antibiotics to take effect. However I'm not good at sitting still and not doing something with my fingers. So I doodled this dug out this added these worked this bit more progress more progress new pincushion!! maybe a little ...

... s jacket with a 21-inch waist! Even my gifted tailor's magical fingers couldn't make that work for me. So you can imagine my glee over today's VPOD. This bobbin lace blouse in cream and black has old-fashioned charm and could fit a modern woman's body. Pair it with the vintage Yves Saint Laurent skirt shown here to ...

... in a regular old building, it would truly make my day. This concrete lace is a new installation at the new Nottingham Contemporary building. They chose a lace ... Louise West created the piece. Louise is a traditional lace maker and makes some truly gorgeous traditional works of ... from free form pieces: To nature inspired bobbin lace. She has like 20 blogs all with only a few posts so it is kind of ...

I'm starting a Christmas ornament in needle lace. If you look back through my blog, you'll see I've started a needle lace ornament at least twice. I always thought my ornaments were not good enough, and traded tatted ornaments instead. I'm giving it ... got tired of working on the heavy blue paper I use for bobbin lace prickings. For now I like the flexibility of paper, contact paper ...

... the sheep across the grounds. I think he and his dog were on their way to give a demonstration with the sheep. Keely and I enjoyed the bobbin-lace demonstration of the Heartland Lace Guild. In bobbin ... When the bobbin is full, the spinstress will wind the yarn into a ball, Then the bobbin can be filled again. Why, who's this in spectacles? Yes, it's Isaac in his furry aviator ...

... Lace Days retreat. The first thing I should say is that my bobbin lace teacher and I agreed the project was a bit too deep for a beginner ... I'm also "playing" on my own. Here are the first five examples in my Introduction To BOBBIN LACEMAKING by Rosemary Shepherd, an Australian ... #70 tatting thread. The last two pieces are worked in a lace thread - #30 machine embroidery by DMC. ...