Friday, January 31, 2014




These 4 photos are of a display I have in the library , the 3 top ones are separate shelves the bottom on the whole display.
Tatting, crochet, torchon lace. felting

This is a photo of my tatted fan on display in the library sorry about the light behind it will try for a better photo when I take the display down

Monday, January 27, 2014

The Owl is from Jennifer Fishers Book and the  Pussycat is from an old edition of Australian Lace
The Boat is a small boomerang painted green. This was for a challenge to use the boomerang  to showcase the lace

Saturday, January 25, 2014





this is my bobbin lace pillow bag, paper pieced patchwork with machine embroidery over the patchwork, the flowers are just repeats of 1 flower worked in different colors and positioned  where I wanted them

Friday, January 17, 2014

2 small tatted bells in no 20 thread






this is a shuttle carrier worked in no 20 thread

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Another crochet doyley  this time using no 60 thread

Another view of basket . The machine embroidery is made using the circular attachment on  my sewing machine

This little basket has machine embroidery around the outside with a tatted frill

Saturday, January 11, 2014

This doyley is crochet in no 40 thread

Another tatted doyley this time using no 60 thread

Friday, January 10, 2014

2  more pretty little bookmarks
A pretty little bookmark using reverse stitch tatting

Thursday, January 9, 2014

This is a torchon lace fan worked with finca thread

Once again I played with Jeanie Luggerts rose and glued it to a small belt buckle to make a brooch

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

This is a small pin cushion for a challenge for Pin cushion featuring lace.