Bittersweet

tania_gru Apr 06, 2008 10:18

framing up

tania_gru Aug 07, 2007 20:13

Hiya all.

I have just started another project, since I just finished a bobbinlace handkerchief.
First time I have really used the frame I bought from the Royal School of Needlework in England.
I am a bit unsure weather the project has been put right into the frame, so I am asking the smart members of the Historical needlework list.

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New corset

tania_gru Apr 09, 2007 10:06

Hiya all finished with my third corset, and I have learned a lot.
Excuse the pic, taken with my digital at arms reach so I could show it on a live body ;-)


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Flossing

tania_gru Apr 05, 2007 15:01

technical question, advice, construction

New pattern

tania_gru Mar 12, 2007 10:36

I got bored with some of the easier patterns and decided to jump into a relatively deep end by using one of the prickings I got from a flea market along with a bunch of bobbins.
Only problems is, is that I have no info on where the pattern is from and what it is called. Only info was that it too 22 pairs of bobbins to make it.


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Fun with pillows

tania_gru Jan 31, 2007 23:02

I had a bit of fun with some yardage of shirt fabric, that I couldn't find a use for. I created a set of cover cloths, bobbin holders and pincushions out of it.


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bobbin lace project

tania_gru Nov 18, 2006 02:07

I am fairly pleased with myself. I have made my first ever handkerchief/small doily in bobbin lace.
The pattern is a very nice, but really easy pattern called crown an triangles, it was first published in womans day magazine, but has been reprinted in the book Lessons in Bobbin Lace.

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Dressform

tania_gru Jun 16, 2006 22:44

I just spent an exhausting long weekend making a personalized dressform. It all started friday night getting covered with brown paper.


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Embroidered book

tania_gru May 25, 2006 21:17

Hiya this is a book I made for an SCA friend in the US featuring her shield and an embroidered version of an italian 15'th century style illuminated R.


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My personal hell

tania_gru May 27, 2005 10:10