Many years ago, I bought some samples and fragments of handmade lace from a woman who had been collecting lace for years.
One of the tiny pieces that I bought then,
and have cherished ever since,
has always been a mystery to me.
But, now, I am convinced that I  know what it is!
Lynn and Elizabeth left comments
on yesterday’s post and have confirmed
that the piece of  ‘mystery lace’
that I wrote about yesterday is
definitely needlepoint lace.
And, I am convinced that this
3 inch/7.5 cm square is, as well.
It’s utterly exquisite, and is worked on
an extraordinarily miniature scale!
When I was googling around,
researching handmade lace,
I googled on ‘needle …read more

I have been in love with lace since I was a child. I began making lace when I was a little girl. One of my grandmother’s friends taught me how to make holes (on purpose!) in your knitting, and that was it for me….. addicted!
I’ve been making lace ever since. I started crocheting lace when I was a teenager, then learned how to tat in my 20’s. And, I’ve been knitting lace ever since I learned to put those holes where I wanted them!
But, that was lace making in the 20th C, and the title of this posting is about …read more

Amy and Donna over at Crochetville have started a fun challenge.
It’s the 2008 Crochet Games of Ancient Greece Challenge.  It’s an invitation to challenge yourself to create a work of crochet that will be a challenge for you to complete from the opening to closing of the Olympic games in Bejing.
At first, I thought…. there is NO way on earth that I can do this… I am working to deadline on my new book, AND have projects to complete for SEVEN workshops that I am teaching in September at the Knit and Crochet Show in Portland OR.
Then… it hit me…. …read more

Synchronicity is amazing.
I was just reading about the common root of two opposing words:
Hospitality vs Hostility
and then the link for this amazing and beautiful piece of work was sent to a list that I belong to:
Lace Fence 
I am awestruck by the lace fence. As a lacemaker, I KNOW how incredibly difficult creating the lace fence had to have been. The technical virtuosity is stunning.  It took a great deal of power to manipulate the wire to create the lace on that scale.
But, the metaphor behind it is  equally, or perhaps even more powerful.  It’s a potent reminder that we really …read more