Dagmar's Necklace Pattern adapted ...

The necklace is done.  

I chose to use some blue & purple beads in lieu of the leaves.   

Tape Lace from Slovakia

At the Doris Southard Lace Guild retreat in Dubuque in October, Dagmar Beckel Machykova taught tape laces from Slovakia.  Several of us chose to work on a variation that is designed to be a neck piece.  I used Lizbeth #40 for my tape lace.

I used Lizbeth #40 for my tape lace. Dagmar's model has linen tape lace and metal leaves.   Dagmar also provided a bracelet pattern.

Hinojosa at IOLI 2016 Indianapolis

IOLI met in Indianpolis in July 2016.  I took Hinojosa from Marina Regueiro.  

Drawing Idrija Patterns

My OIDFA class this summer was at Idrija, Slovenia.  We stayed about half an hour away in Cerkno.  The teacher was Maja Svetlik who has drawn lace diagrams for many publications on Idrija lace.  The class included exercises to learn to create our own designs as well as how to create diagrams for Idrija style lace.  During the final morning of class we visited Maja's office to see how she uses Corel Draw.  Her demonstration answered some of my questions that I have had for a long time.

When I returned home I was able to take one of my pencil drawings and transfer it into the computer and create a pattern for lace.  I used some Kreinik Ombre that I was given long ago for the passives.  I used a combination linen and metal thread that I bought from Bart & Francis several years ago for the weavers.  I used Delica beads instead of leaves and added more Delicas to trim the edges of the tape.











In August I made a second motif for a hostess gift to a lace making friend.  I another linen & metal thread for the weavers and silver thread for the passives with silvery gray Delica beads.

I've added delica beads to the bobbins I bought from LatheAbout. Mark Teeboon is the specialist woodturner from New Zealand. He was a vendor at OIDFA in Ljubljana, Slovenia in June. 

• South Australian Jacaranda Mimosifolia: Several friends have recognized the name Jacaranda and are familiar with the tree. It is called fern tree. 
• Puriri (Vitex Lucens) is an evergreen tree from New Zealand. 

•  12,000 year old swamp swamp kauri from the Takanini swamp in the north island of New Zealand where logs have been buried and preserved in peat.

Mark's wife Cherie had beaded sample bobbins to show how the bobbins could be embellished.  They priced the samples high so that they would not sell and Cherie could keep them.  But the samples sold like hot cakes!  I was happy to purchase the bobbins and add beads from my stash.  I did the beading at meetings of the Embroiderers' Guild and at the national exhibit.

At the Doris Southard Lace Guild meeting yesterday I used some garage sale yarn to make a bobbin holder for the bobbins that were used to make it. The Torchon Ground bobbin holder was constructed using 8 pairs of large Slovak lace bobbins and my bolster pillow.

Fiber Forum in Sedona AZ

Here's my work on my table at the workshop with Jean Draper the first week of April. The thread vessel with the narrow neck was on display at our chapter exhibit April 22 - 24. I've got time to work on other pieces before our next exhibit in 2 years.