Lace

Needlelace - Close up of centre one side Close up of leaf.	Half one side. Piece made for the front of a V-necked shirt, machine sewing cotton and beads and dyed fine tulle. Took me about a year to do, its about 10 inches each side. I adapted it from two pictures of old lace I saw in a book.
	Motif from a needlelace book done in Anchor Marlitt thread.
	Daisy needlelace in progress, Leaves are in green net. Motif made up from pictures in a Copyright free source book.
	Bobbin lace motifs, all done from the same pattern just using different fills in the various parts and different threads. All are machine sewing cotton. The mauve one is a shiny thread that was very hard to work but came out looking pretty good. I've not sewed in the ends on that one yet, as you can see there are a lot of end to hide away.
	Sleeve edging and Motif in Needlelace I did for the front of a shirt, which has since fallen apart but the lace went on, tough stuff. :O) Its done in sewing cotton and fine net for the leaves. They are the same colour its the scan that wouldn't show it the same. The sleeve edging has a bead in the centre of each flower. These were some of my first long term needlelace projects the sleeve one went around both sleeves of a short sleeve shirt and measured about 15 inches each piece. It took me about 3 months to do
	Needlelace face I did from a photo of Pierce Brosnan. This is my first go at a face and hopefully it came out reasonable. I shall try a few others when I get the time. This is quite small at 1 and a quarter inches x 1 and three quarter inches. It uses one strand of DMC embroidery thread and lots of squinting. :O) Jan 2006