>Bag of Lace
03 Mar 2011 1 Comment
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Here are the other pieces of lace that had been in the bag that I bought for 2.99. I think it was a great find. Just sad that someone didn’t like their work enough to keep it.
This green one isn’t too interesting to me but I will figure something out for it. Maybe take it down to the center section by removing all the chains and make a bun cover for my girls. That would make it at least useful again to someone.
The pink one I want to copy the pattern the tatted piece in this photo may end up becoming the edge of set of wrist warmers to make lace that hangs over the hands. If you want to see these photos better click on them and it will take you to a bigger photo on flickr.
The top piece that is cut off matches the thread used in the last tatted photo above and at the bottom of this photo so might figure out a way to add them to one another. The top pink one is crocheted in the round and has some slight damage so not sure if I am going to fix it and make it into something else or just copy the pattern. The next pink one I know I want to make more of it so I will be coping that pattern I think it is so pretty.
The tatted medallions in this next photo are just tied together with a separate piece of string so I am thinking I will separate them and figure out what to do with them at that point. They are made out of a pearl cotton. You can see I have already separated one in the very top photo of this post.
Nice white tatted edging haven’t a clue what to do with it at the moment it will just go into my lace box for future use.
>Tatted Capelet
03 Mar 2011 1 Comment
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I found this large bag of lace scraps at a thrift store the entire bag cost less than $2.99 and had at least 5 such pieces in it plus a lot of crochet too. There are several usable pieces of crochet and tatted lace in the bag I just have to figure out what to use them for. The first piece I decide I would use was this piece of tatted lace made out of pearl cotton. It was already connected into a continuous piece. So I decided I would make it into another capelet.
The pieces of tatting are so large they make a strong focal point. It was very simple to do put a shell edging around the already tatted pieces which added strength to them. Since the tatter is unknown I was not sure how strong the person was in their skills of finishing work. Upon inspection on the piece, the creator only tied knots at the end of their work and didn’t weave the ends in so it is a fragile piece and will have to be washed by hand. I rarely find tatted pieces that have the ends finished in a good way. Yet it would be sad to toss that much work and not enjoy it. Which means it would have to be made into an item that could easily be hand washed and not something that would get a lot of wear and tear. So after I had added the shells I started into the mesh area working with different techniques to get the valleys between the motifs to the same high so I could then just work up the piece simply with rounds of chains that get less and less number of chains near the top. At the necks edge I once again lengthened the chains to give ease in the drape and finished it of with a picot edge took less than a day to do this transformation. Those that know me know I do not usually wear pink. But every now and again it is nice, would have been good at Valentines but I didn’t have the scrap of tatting then. Since the pink pearl cotton I used was also found junking(thrifting) a long time ago. I have made a pair of gloves already with this thread. So the few dollars I spent on that cone has gone a long way. The whole item cost me less than $2.00 probably not even $1.00. Not bad!
>Crochet Oya lace book in English
09 Feb 2011 1 Comment
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I have been looking for a while for an Oya lace book in English. I have found one and it is available on Amazon for an inexpensive price compared to the ones from Turkey. This book has the crochet version of Oya not the needle version. It also includes 2 samples of tatted versions (on page 54 and the same photo is on the cover) in the photos but there are not any tatting patterns in the book. If you already know how to tat you could make them from the photos.
The Beaded edge (inspired designs for crocheted edgings and trims)
Midori Nishida/CRK Design
88 page book
isbn 978-1-59668-300-6
>HS101: tatted lace to fabric
09 Aug 2010 3 Comments
>This type is done almost exactly the same as french lace to fabric.
Use DMC heirloom sewing machine thread when doing this for real and needle size#60, #65 or #70.
For the sample I will just be using normal sewing thread so you can see it easy in the photos and it will be a contrasting color for the same reason.
prep work
1. Cut 1 piece of lace and one piece of fabric the same length
2. Prep by starching and pressing both (using clean iron, and clean board, also use spray starch) ( if the tatting is homemade out of tatting cord it may not need starting but always better to starch than not to) this technique only works with store bought lace or homemade lace that has a crochet chain added to the header edge. The header edge is the edge attached to the fabric.
How to
W=3.0-4.0
L = 0.5
- place right sides together with the lace being 1/4 to 1/8 of an inch away from the edge of the fabric (this piece of lace is handmade by me in size 30 thread then I added a size 80 crochet edge in similar color so I could use a sewing machine to attach it)
- placement
- using zig zag stitch stitch over the edge of the fabric and the edge of the lace” the chain stitch”.
- sew zig zag satin stich
- press towards fabric
- wrong side before pressing
- right side
using correct thread this is what your finished piece should look like
right side finished
right side finished
>Items for new niece
05 Aug 2010 5 Comments
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onsies with added embelisments
There are actually two sets of booties in the package but the others are store bought silk ones and I didn’t do any thing to them so I am not posting them.
Baby bonnet was was going to make a pink one too but I think best to get this in the mail before she out grows the items. She already has one bonnet by me that she was given long before her birth.
My oldest daughter crocheted around the burp cloths the rest I made.
>Lace Sampler Book
16 Jul 2010 1 Comment
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If you are curious as to why you have not seen much of my own work recently. Two weeks ago I was making another sampler book but for lace this time. I was using grommets on it and well I hit my left hand index finger with a hammer. I have not done to much handwork as of late because of it. I was making a sample book with different pages for tatted, crochet, knitted, hairpin lace, some unknown makers some mine and some great grandparents each page is labeled so my kids will know who made the lace on that page. I will add pages to it latter to add my childrens’ lace samples, and needle lace samples and tennerife samples and so on.
That is why the grommets so I can easily change things around. The pages are 18 x 11 with 8 grommets at the top of each page so that I can use rings to hold them together which also makes it easy to add pages that is as long as I don’t take a hammer to my hand. The pages are made out of wool. The wool was washed so it is felted which is a good thing because I do not have to hem the edges at all because the wool is clean I shouldn’t have to worry about wool moths either but I will still take precautions on it any way. right now these are in one book but in time they will be split into other books such as.
- crochet by unknown crocheters
- crochet by me
- crochet by my children one for each of them
- crochet by great grandmothers
- tatting by me
- tatting by unknown tatters
- tatting by my children
- knitted lace by me
- knitted lace by others
- bobbin lace by me
- tennerife lace by me
- tennerife lace by others
- etc the list goes on and on
As you can see this is why I made the book changeable not all of these categories will have there own book but they will have there own pages and if there are to many of one it will get its own book like crochet by unknown crocheters already needs its own book. I tend to buy little balls of vintage to antique thread when ever I see them they also tend to have little scraps of other peoples unfinished work in them.
I still need to make covers for these and I still need to sew lots in place as you can tell somethings are safety pined in so I know where they go. This way I can carry a page with me and work on sewing it in and not get poked by straight pins holing them in place. But i have not sewn in much yet the hand thing. I am able to do sewing again now as my hand is mostly recovered but I am trying to empty a pod unit that has been in my driveway for a year and I need to get to it because most of my fabric is in it and well I am worried it is getting wrecked.
There are more pages in this book some with more lace samples some blank but this gives you an idea of it all.
So for those who don’t make test swatches a lot of mine in this book are my test swatches they are important. A lot are also my swatches from doing repair work trying to get the gauge right and trying to figure out the pattern. Samples are important. As I am working on cleaning out our pod unit I am finding more and more of my samples that have just been scattered about in my sewing supplies. It will now be nice to have a record to show people what I can do.
>Daughter’s tatting
06 Jul 2010 3 Comments
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My oldest daughter (12 yrs old) over the 4th of July weekend decided she wanted to pick up tatting. So I sat down to teach her. Not an easy feet since I smashed my left hand with a hammer last week making a sampler book (more about that at a later date). I tried and she succeeded at it. So this is her second piece of tatting the first one she accidentally left at grandma’s on the 3rd when we all celebrated the 4th of July. I know sounds odd the 3rd is not the 4th but the 4th was Sunday and we don’t do things like that on Sunday even our Easter egg hunts happen on Saturdays. She was not half bad for a beginner give her time and she will do great. I told her she had to make this until she runs out of this thread I always do that to them. By the time they finish with 1 or 2 balls of thread they are usually pretty good at what ever skill is involved.
>Part 6b:1940s babyreproduction yellow accents
03 Jul 2010 1 Comment
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I thought I had taken pictures of this before I added the lace trim but I can not find them now. Oh well! Here is what my repo of the last slip looks like. Like I said earlier it was too simple for me so I added some yellow tatting that I made years ago to the item to make it a little fancier I may still add some embroidery to it. All of the items are to fit a baby about 1 year old for some reason this pattern/ slip was designed to fit a newborn so it is much smaller than the other ones.
Pattern of tatting is in the original post of when I was making this tatting. I added tatting to the neck area, arm holes and hem of the slip. I used cotton batiste for this again. All these dresses and slips have french seams.
>Sleeves on sweater and 2 doilies
01 Jun 2010 Leave a Comment
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I have been working on the sleeves of my sweater over the weekend. I do have all the red on them even with the ball I found under the sofa I will not have enough of that red to do the back flap but I did have just enough for the sleeves. I have started the black section on one sleeve this section will be 9 inches long (currently it has 5 inches in black) that will make it hit in the middle of my fingers which is good to me. Plus it will be able to roll up to a nice large size cuff if I do not want to wear it so long one day.
Below are some doilies I made for my Mother in law (MIL)for her birthday (9 years ago tatted) and mother’s day or Valentine’s day but I think it was mother’s day (7 years ago crochet). I took the photos at our Memorial Day party so they aren’t the best as I did them on the fly. She uses them as Antimacassars on her front room chairs. The black crochet one ( 2.5 – 3 feet across) is over twice the size of the tatted one in diameter. I was living with my mil at the time I made the black one. When I had it all done and blocked it I left it by her piano with a note reading the greetings of the day. When she realized it was hers she said she wished it was hers when she watched me make it. But didn’t want to ask for it so that made me feel good that she had it.
The tatted one I used thread that use to belong to my grand mil (my mil’s mom) It was just a small scrap of thread she had thus the airiness of it I wanted it to be as large as possible. I gave it as a gift to my Mil as a reminder of her grandmother because that is the only other person on this side of the family that tatted on my side of the family My Great Aunt Dennie’s use to tat when she was a teenager but I never saw any of her work as it all burned to the ground when she was in her late teens along with their home. So even through it is small it meant a lot to me and Mom (I only call her MIL on my blog in real life MOM).
>#17 of 25 motif tatting challenge
22 Jan 2009 3 Comments
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Ok, so I am not doing this very fast; too much on my plate. But I have worked on the challenge and this is the latest piece I am making. The thread is vintage and very small. It will be a nice delicate edging to add to my box of handmade lace.
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