Hope everyone had a happy holidays and stayed safe and warm! Ours was ok. Visiting with family, eating, sitting around, eating, kids and adults alike with their electronic toys, more eating…… I get bored with electronics and eating so much. Waste of time when we could be doing something festive. Didn’t go anywhere. So pretty much stuck in the house.
So I decided to get down one of my UFO pillows and finish one. This is what I just finished two days ago
The pattern is from Doris Southard’s book “Lessons in Bobbin Lacemaking”. It is made from raw natural linen thread that I found sometime ago on a spool. No name or size. It was tough to work on since it was raw and nubbly. But I persevered! It only needed pressing and no stiffening. Linen is very crisp. Here it is after I got it off the pillow.
I really like the pattern, not impressed with the thread and how it handled. And I forgot a few elements as I worked it. Since it had been years since I started it, I forgot a few things, like adding picots to the plait fillings and the side arches were to be joined. They flop around now. My mother in law thought it would look nice applied to a pillow. Stitching it down would solve the floppy part.
Now I am back to working on a heart motif I started earlier this year from my Bruges Bloemwerk lessons my BL teacher was giving me from the book Bruges Flower Lace by Edna Sutton.





















