I had over the years worked this Bedfordshire style lace on my Danish style roller pillow I take with me to the heritage demo shows. But I am bored with it and have worked about a yard and a half. Not sure what I will do with it. Put it on display for now with some other edgings. But I have been wanting to try my hand with Bucks Point Lace.
Yes, I know I just started Honiton Lace projects. But I can't leave a pillow empty and no project. I will take the Honiton pillow to show at the events, but I won't be working on it. Takes too much concentration and I don't want anyone around if I break a thread. Might get some raised eyebrows ;) So I found in my book "One Hundred Traditional Bobbin Lace Patterns" by Geraldine Stott and Bridget Cook a nice fairly beginner Bucks Lace pattern. It is "The Bride" edging. Has nice mesh ground and not too complicated gimp work, plus a contrasting ground area inside the gimp. I chose to work this lace in black cotton thread size 50 Oren Byan and DMC cotton size 30 for gimp. Tired of just white and I like the classy look of black lace. I have worked with gimp and picots before. But I am new to point lace and the cross, twist, twist, twist technique of the mesh ground. I struggled for a few starts to get the bobbins in the right position. But I persevered!!! And so now I am on my way to working on Bucks Point Lace and will have a bit of it to show at the heritage events that are coming this weekend and the next. Black lace and white cat don't mix too well. Little fine white hairs pop up and I might be making gray lace LOL! While I was preparing my 23 pairs of bobbins, our pure white cat decided to help me keep the pairs in order......by laying on them and holding them down! They won't roll all over the place that way! At least they didn't have the black thread wound on them yet. I hang those pairs on my armchair or rack....whatever is handy. http://tat-man.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_5708.jpg Here you can see my start of the lace. WOW......a lot of pins for this pattern to hold! Another feature I am not used to. http://tat-man.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_5710.jpg http://tat-man.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_5717.jpg I am not sure if there is any particular type of bobbin that works best for this style of lace, but decided to dust off my spangled midlands. Lately I have been using my continentals and want a change of pace. Plus since this is a demo pillow it will show the public all the pretty bobbins of all kinds. I usually get a lot of comments about the spangles and painting on the bobbins. Gets the conversation started! http://tat-man.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IMG_5712.jpg -- Mark, aka Tatman website: http://www.tat-man.net blog: http://tat-man.net/blog Magic Thread Shop: http://www.tat-man.net/tatterville/tatshop/tatshop.html email: tat...@tat-man.net Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tatmantats - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
