I (heart) mail - over a couple weeks I've enjoyed reading:

 I think this is my fav issue of the Bulletin OIDFA.   Turkish Needlelace article & 'how-to" -- New Zealand Rangirua Exhibition - Teneriffe -- and MORE.

  EGA Virtual Education.   What an exceptional kit for a 2-day workshop.   (zoom).

  Piecework magazine.  

• Unforgotten Revolutionary Lacemakers of Ipswich by Mary E. Mangan, Gail MacLean, Karen H. Thompson, Jill Hawkins, Rosalie Bares, Carolyn Wetzel, and The New England Lace Group

Following the IOLI Lecture o Saba Lace .... I was intrigued!!!   The patterns and information are excellent.... some remind me of Nanduti.    Book available thru IOLI library - the lecture/video is available via zoom thru the IOLI webpage.    Excellent presentation IMO.

 

 

 

Year in Review - Part II

 

Anna McDowell

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Marilee Rockley's Beaded Path

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Loretta Holtzberger

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  Kaye B. Judt

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Beaded Lace Bobbins

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Patti Duff Mini Tats

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EGA Course

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 Kalofer Rose (OIDFA)

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Karen Thompson

 On to 2026 . . . . 

Tatting: Swirls - A Tatting Project (a finish)

 

 

Front & Back -- with

thread ends woven in.

I didn't use glue for the center.

Swirls

Pattern & instruction by Meenal Palashikar,

via The Lace Museum, virtual education.

I used Lizbeth Size 10.

Colors 672 & 622.

 Now hanging up on my sewing machine cover - with an older piece I really should finish one day!!!   Drawn Thread Sampler #1     by Jonalene T. Gutwein thru EGA  I did the drawn work and still have cross stitch borders to fill in (cross stitch!).

EGA GCC: Beginning Teneriffe Lace Project & Bobbin Lace Class being offered in Lafayette, IN USA

Finished piece.

ECRU DMC No. 70

Cordonnet Special.   It is 4.5" across.

Beginning Teneriffe Lace project.

Pattern and Instruction

c.Jonalene T. Gutwein 2013

EGA Web Page Link: https://egausa.org/

FREE Bobbin Lace Class for Beginners.

Two Sessions in Lafayette, IN

https://lafayettelacemakers.blogspot.com/

 

Close to finish

Close to a finish.  Keeping the pins 'in' for now.  

Next steps are:  remove from the pattern - tuck in / hide ends of  the fibers - mail the GCC piece to the instructor. Progress Pix. 

  

I'm spoiled using the kits from Joan Brash. https://teneriffelacekits.com/.   Was interesting to start with a pattern and make my own 'block'.   I think having the pins on a round foam with pins on the side is easier - with pins on top - does catch the fiber.

This is the

Beginning Teneriffe Lace project.

Pattern and Instruction

c.Jonalene T. Gutwein 2013

I'm using ECRU DMC No. 70

Cordonnet Special.   It is 4.5".  

[same size as the Teneriffe Lace Sunflower]

EGA Web Page Link: https://egausa.org/

Teneriffe Lace, continues

Some progress on my EGA Correspondence Course.

Slow going with the fiber.  I think I'm supposed to mail it by mid-August.   Would like to finish soon.  Progress Pix.

This is the

Beginning Teneriffe Lace project.

Pattern and Instruction

c.Jonalene T. Gutwein 2013

I'm using ECRU DMC No. 70

Cordonnet Special.

EGA Web Page Link: https://egausa.org/

 

On the table . . .

Doing a couple of things yesterday/today -- first, trying to 

create templates from E Z Quilting (brand) Template Plastic.  

I tried before by using a bobbin lace pricker (tool),

then used hole punch.   It distorted the plastic.

This time, I used a marker on the plastic,

cleaned off my hole punch tool - and had better (not perfect) results.

Good for practice pieces.  I'm learning how to keep the Oya 'flat'.  Similar to issues I've had with tatting - I want to avoid cupping of the projects. (not familiar with cupping?   visit Muskann's blog post  https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2021/12/cupping-hearts.html.    Going around the template is new to me!  Stay tuned.  

  I put in a few rounds on the EGA GCC Beginning Teneriffe Lace.  (Largest piece in the center - top) Using ecru No. 70 DMC Cordonnet Special.   Knotted, snagged, twisted.  I ended up cutting off some of the fiber to make the length easier to deal with.   And found a longer needle to use for the weaving.   Next round - knots.

I'm so used to using perle cottons & size 20 Lizbeth - using the finer fiber is new to me.   (the other pieces in progress & finished Joan Brash's Teneriffe Kits.).

Air quality is better today (Canadian Wildfire smoke in the area), taking a break for a bicycle ride!

 

The lost is found ...

Finished 3rd rectangle.   Had such a mess on the table -- couldn't find "this or that" -- spent a few hours putting things away.   Did locate a couple projects I'd been wanting to add to, start, or finish before deadline.

Above:  Halas Style Lace Medallion  

Pattern + Instructions:  Loretta Holzberger

Loretta's Custom Stitchery

Sessions thru Virtual Education,

The Lace Museum.

This is Beginning Teneriffe Lace

Course for the Embroiderers' Guild of America.

Pattern + Instructions

c.Jonalene T. Gutwein 2013

It is available thru

EGA Lightning Rounds

After getting the pattern attached to foam,

adding pins, etc., I'm ready to start wrapping & weaving fibers.

I'm planning to use ECRU DMC No. 70 Cordonnet Special.

EGA Website link HERE.

 

WIP: English Band Sampler

This is the Scattered Motifs section from my WIP:

I took an ICC course, 17th c English Band Sampler, thru EGA to learn specialty stitches and the various techniques used during that time.

I am sharing this section as it has several motifs that are filled with queen stitches(As always, click to enlarge)The flower petals (picture above) have tons of queen stitches, upright & sideways, over 4 threads or more. Using several shades of silk, one strand, the flowers have a beautiful textureAnd, I am still not finished with the motifs!

Pictured above, the queen stitches are the same size; however, with the different colors of silk, create a wonderful repeating pattern in the large motif -- and awesome texture in the thistle & lady bug.

The largest motif in this photo (green,blue,red,gold) is solidly filled in with queen stitchesIf you get the chance, try grouping the queen stitches together to fill in an area. The results are beautiful - IMOI was so attracted to this course and enjoyed learning how to create all the bands & motifs. The course material has patterns taken from real samplers and it was delightful to make stitch samples.And, one of these years, when I feel more ambitious, I just might get around to finishing this monster sampler.

It has sections of White Work; Alphabets; Double Running Patterns; Scattered Motifs; Variations of cross stitch; and finally (still working on this part) - embellishments & finishing