Friday, May 11, 2018

knitted bead purses

lace making bears bobbin lace and tatting plus embroidery

Monday, February 20, 2017

A scarf hairpin crochet and tatting

these tatted roses worked from Jennifer Williams pattern  part of a display of flowers

Friday, November 11, 2016

Broom stitch crochet in the round


 tatted flowers in lace

Irish crochet flower

Christmas Witch
Celtic tatting

Thursday, April 7, 2016





This  cloth fits my small table combining two of my loves patchwork and torchon lace. I put a layer of pelon between the patchwork and the backing and hand slip stitched the torchon squares in place

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Playing with color in torchon

This was just a bit of fun to support breast screen
Teapot, cups and saucers, milk jug and sugar bowl all made from bras.

Monday, October 19, 2015



My Granson wearing his lace jabot and cuffs ready for a highland dancing comp.
The above 2 photos show his jabot up close and his cuff.This is the first set I made No 2 coming when he stops growing

Saturday, October 17, 2015

The second set of cuffs and jabot worked for another grandson Worked from the same pattern varying the stitches in the scallops and trail etc so the boys can tell them apart.You can imagine the panic when it didnt arrive at its destination for 6 days from day of posting it to GS

Saturday, October 18, 2014

These 2 facinators are made from   bras  they are going to be used to support Breast Screen
A great fun project. The brief was to make a facinator from a bra to support breast screen but it had to have hand made lace on it.
The pink flowers are from Rosemary Shepherds book fantasy flowers , the cream piece on No 2 is from Jenny Fishers book

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Jo-bot and cuffs for highland dancing worked for Grandson

Friday, July 25, 2014

A very simple crochet bookmark no 20 variegated thread

Friday, April 25, 2014


3 fans, 1 crochet, 1 tatted and 1 torchon

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

This is my tatted rope necklace

Saturday, March 1, 2014



These 3 are just a bit of fun   The middle one has Jane's TIAS  goats from last year we did as a group project. Fortunately we will be able to add this years TIAS to the same picture.

A proper photo of my fan  as promised