thelacebee

Yesterday, I went along to a new lace group - yippeee!!  I am doing a procrastination piece - you know the kind of thing - I should be making the honiton for Dad's 80th birthday so in order to achieve this I'm making something else.

Anyway, off I go to the lace group with my big pillow and a pricking that I found in my storage - well, that's not exactly true - I found 1/2 the pricking in my storage and made up the other half from that.  It's a large piece - about 20" long by about 14" wide and is a mixed lace.  Now what is interesting here is that I have no picture of the lace. 

But hey, that doesn't matter - I'm cool - I can do this and even better, for some strange reason I have actually written all the right instructions down on the pricking including where the sewings are and how many pairs to add in (and where).

So, I started it and got to about 14 pins into the first spiral and realise that there are two things I needed to have done - firstly my initial thoughts that it needed more pairs when I started were right.  Secondly, it needed a whole stitch and twist done the edges in order to keep the shape.  So, I just stopped making the lace and sat and looked at it thinking. 
I said, I don't have a picture to study so I will just use the pattern and see how it feels as I make it. 

When I first became good at making lace I could look at a pattern and feel how it needed to be made and I have made some excellent pieces because of this.  However, I’ve got out of practice - especially when you get such excellent patterns that have instructions that tell you everything. 
So, I'm back to wing and a prayer lace making or as my other half calls it - extreme, no safety net, lacemaking.

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