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.