Needle Lace practice piece ....

 So, here is Sunrise/Moonrise Needle Lace start.   It is from the Night + Day Marathon June 2025.

  

 Moon Practice piece created with DMC Perle Coton 8, 3823.

The wave fiber I picked out is Oren Bayan Dantel, 50.  The sun, size 20, Lizbeth Col. 611.

 

Spring

(We are grateful.  The storms in our area were south of us & we have no damage.)

Had this out at the public library & didn't get much weaving accomplished.   Did not find any mistakes tho ...

The kit has fiber; however, I'm using Lizbeth, Size 20, Col. 159 & Col. 646 -- the kit comes with white fiber to complete four patterns.

Traditional Teneriffe Lace Patterns.

Pattern 2:   Spinning Star

c.2019 Heirloom Arts

Joan Brash kit & instructions.  

Kit includes custom loom, needle, fiber, + four patterns/instructions.  

This is an incredible book.  82 pages - and spiral edge.  Clear diagrams & lovely projects.  Charming cover!

 I have had our 16mo old granddaughter here q o week.   Wow.   Never a dull moment! Lots of closed doors, putting things higher up!  Overtired once she is back home.   She will be back here on the 23rd.  Not much tatting to report.    Did manage one angel wing -- and will launch the 2nd wing!   One day I will have a completed angel.

Lizbeth 20, Col. 601 and 11/0 Glass Seed Beads.

3 D Angel pattern & instruction

c. 2024 Patti Duff

from 2025 I.O.L.I. Convention 2025

IOLI Dallas

Traditional Teneriffe Lace Patterns: Knotted Flower

The kit comes with white fiber, size 20, to complete four patterns.

Traditional Teneriffe Lace Patterns.

Pattern 3:  Knotted Flower

c.2019 Heirloom Arts

Joan Brash kit & instructions.  

https://teneriffelacekits.com/index.php

 Off the loom ....

Crystal (snowflake)

Sol Lace Angel

Knotted Flower

Cosy

Lace Sunflower

Knots

 

Teneriffe Lace Patterns WIPs

The kit comes with white fiber, size 20, to complete four patterns.

Traditional Teneriffe Lace Patterns.

Pattern 3:  Knotted Flower

c.2019 Heirloom Arts

Joan Brash kit & instructions.  

https://teneriffelacekits.com/index.php

 The kit has fiber; however, I'm using Lizbeth, Size 20, Col. 159 & Col. 646 -- the kit comes with white fiber to complete four patterns.

Traditional Teneriffe Lace Patterns.

Pattern 2:   Spinning Star

c.2019 Heirloom Arts

Joan Brash kit & instructions.  

Kit includes custom loom, needle, fiber, + four patterns/instructions.  

IMO - you need to have on hand:  scissors, tape measure/ruler, scotch tape.   I like to have (nearby) pin cushion, needle threader, stiletto, post-it note, & longer needle. 

https://teneriffelacekits.com/index.php

Lafayette Lacemaker class, July 2025 

 

Misc.

My friend gave me these two vintage Weave-It looms.

I enjoy looms / yarns.

I have a bag in the works - which I forgot about until I was gifted the two looms.   Had a hunt, and it was in a project bag.

 Made with a zoom loom.   Tolt Folded Bag pattern.  I need to add a handle.  I've had this WIP for awhile!

Part of a blog post 3/27/2022:

This project, I found in a box.   I won a Zoom Loom and 3 balls of yarn.   Made the squares, and somehow put it away - never put it together.   I think, not sure, that it was a giveaway thru Facebook.  Schacht Spindle Co & Classic Elite Yarns.   My plan was to sew the strips together and fold them into a Tolt Folded Bag.   So I hope to get the 3rd row of squares put together & now that I found the ball of yarn, can sew the 3 rows together.   Fingers crossed this works.

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 I found this in my "travel bag".  Met up with friends and put in some of the weaving.  Spinning Star.   A very nice kit - and I switched the kit fiber with Lizbeth fiber.  An excellent to go kit.

Traditional Teneriffe Lace Patterns.

Pattern 2:   Spinning Star

c.2019 Heirloom Arts

Joan Brash kit & instructions.  

Kit includes custom loom, needle, fiber, + four patterns/instructions.  IMO - you need to have on hand:  scissors, tape measure/ruler, scotch tape.   I like to have (nearby) pin cushion, needle threader, stiletto, post-it note, & longer needle. 

https://teneriffelacekits.com/index.php

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  Added border pattern to large circle of the Nanduti 1 projects.  Lots of knots.  Homework complete - ready for the 4th session.

I've been using DMC coton perle, size 12.  

Blue 794, Gold 676, Green 928 + 503, Lavender 3042, Rose 316.

Continuing Nanduti 1

Instructor:  Dawn Loving.

The Nanduti sessions are

thru Virtual Education via The Lace Museum.

 

Sol Lace Day /Teneriffe

SOL LACE DAY

It's this Saturday! June 21

Link to the event:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86868024568...

Meeting code / meeting code:

868 6802 4568

Password: 442382

Don't forget to download the Zoom app for this meeting!

Times / Schedules

Argentina/Buenos Aires (GMT-3) 10h00 - 10h am

Brazil/Brazil (GMT-3) 10h00 - 10h am

Croatia/Zagreb (CEST) 3:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Cuba/Havana (CDT) 9:00 - 9:00 am or

Spain/Madrid (CEST) 3:00pm - 3:00pm

Spain/Tenerife (WEST) 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm

USA/Los Angeles (PDT) 6:00am - 6:00am

USA/NYC (EDT) - 9:00am - 9:00am

Japan/Tokyo (JST) - 10:00pm-10pm

ParaguayAssumption (GMT-4) - 9:00AM - 9:00AM

Puerto Rico/San Juan (AST) – 9H00 – 9h am

Sidney/Australia (AEST)- 23h00 – 11h pm

Venezuela/Caracas (GMT-4) 9H00 – 9h am

The kit has fiber; however, I'm using Lizbeth, Size 20, Col. 159 -- the kit comes with white fiber to complete four patterns.  When the colors in the fiber changes it creates a striped look.  Maybe would be better with a solid color after all.

The pastel colors in the spokes and knots are ok -- maybe I should have changed to a solid color for the needle weaving.

Traditional Teneriffe Lace Patterns.

Pattern 2:   Spinning Star

c.2019 Heirloom Arts

Joan Brash kit & instructions.  

Kit includes custom loom, needle, fiber, + four patterns/instructions.  IMO - you need to have on hand:  scissors, tape measure/ruler, scotch tape.   I like to have (nearby) pin cushion, needle threader, stiletto, post-it note, & longer needle. 

https://teneriffelacekits.com/index.php

 

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!

 

Spinning Star: Teneriffe Lace Pattern

 The kit has fiber; however, I'm using Lizbeth, Size 20, Col. 159 -- the kit comes with white fiber to complete four patterns.

Traditional Teneriffe Lace Patterns.

Pattern 2:   Spinning Star

c.2019 Heirloom Arts

Joan Brash kit & instructions.  

Kit includes custom loom, needle, fiber, + four patterns/instructions.  IMO - you need to have on hand:  scissors, tape measure/ruler, scotch tape.   I like to have (nearby) pin cushion, needle threader, stiletto, post-it note, & longer needle. 

https://teneriffelacekits.com/index.php

 

It is a start ....

A Rose for Kalofer.

FREE sessions on April April 6 ,

April 10 , April 12 .

Taught by Joan Brash

for the OIDFA Flower Project via

via The Lace Museum.

Follow the links above and/or:

 OIDFA

Rose Pattern

This is a Community Lace Project for the

2025 OIDFA Congress in Kalofer & Karlovo, Bulgaria.

This is also the #11 Lace Challenge for IOLI.

https://lacechallenge.internationalorganizationoflace.org/lace-challenge/lace-challenge-11

 I'm using DMC pc 5 #3689 and Lizbeth 20 #145.

 

Gros point de Venise Class

 Not much

accomplished during today's needle lace zoom!!   

I started the sampler (photo on right of finished piece)

and will complete it in four sessions.  Next session will be the next three rectangles. (filling)

I am using Lizbeth, Size 20, Col. 601 for the outline --

 DMC 80, Col. 5200 for the filling(s).

Gros Point de Venise Class 2025.  

Pattern + Instructions:  Loretta Holzberger

Loretta's Custom Stitchery

Sessions thru Virtual Education,

The Lace Museum.

 I really should have used a different color paper/card stock for the pattern!!!    Challenge to use white fiber on white pattern.

 Preparing for bobbin lace Rose for Kalofer session on Thursday.   Prep for needlelace and bobbin lace is time consuming.  Stay tuned.   The bobbin lace flowers/rose are part of a community lace project for the 2025   OIDFA Congress in Kalofer and Karlovo, Bulgaria.  Also, https://lacechallenge.internationalorganizationoflace.org/lace-challenge/lace-challenge-11 Lace Challenge #11 for I.O.L.I.  

I am grateful to Joan Brash for her pattern and sessions thru the Lace Museum.  I'd like to finish the sunflower this summer, too.   

 

Continue with Needle Lace projects:

 Still putting in the outline of the petals with Lizbeth size 40, Col. 611.   Couching!!!  Couching!!!

Pattern and Instructions:

 Needle Lace Sunflower

c. Joan Brash, 2024 

https://teneriffelacekits.com/

 Put in more stitches with Gutermann S303, 100% Silk.  Col.800.

Pattern and Instructions:

Janice Blair    

From the L.A.C.E. classes

Needlelace Star Sampler Workshop

February & March 2012

 

Needle Lace Sunflower

I've picked up this project a few times.

Have made some practice pieces.

Started out with size 20 fibers 

& really didn't care for the outcome.

Picked out some size 40 fibers and

giving it another go.

 Practice pieces.

 Started with the sunflower center. 

So not perfect; however, I like the way it spirals.   

Lizbeth size 40 - Col. 697.

Now on to the petals.

Pattern and Instructions:

c. Joan Brash, 2024 

https://teneriffelacekits.com/

Needle lace sessions (2024) via The Lace

Museum, Virtual Education (Link).

 

Off the Loom ...

EDITED ... 2:32 p.m.

 

Teneriffe Lace Sunflower (kit) c.2020 Heirloom Arts

Kit and Instruction:  Joan Brash

https://teneriffelacekits.com/

Kit included EVERYTHNG. (Excellent) Instructions, Teneriffe Loom,

DMC Coton Perle 8, Col. 972, Lizbeth, Twirlz, Monarch, Czech beads,

Needles, Filament for beading.   Joan's kits are wonderful.  When I visit her site, I want to purchase all of them.

 pretty with the beads ...

There are so many lace sessions to choose from.

Check them out, here:   https://thelacemuseum.org/virtual-education/.    

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In response to question, I did hope to put

sunflowers into a shadow box.   They sell them at Michael's (perhaps other places).

Front Opening Shadow Box.

I have sunflowers completed, I have partial sunflowers, and instructions/patterns to launch.   

I want to do the Endruck's sunflower - another link here, finish my beaded lace bobbin with sunflower pattern,  needle lace sunflower, zwirnknopf button set, small grapevine wreath, and (floral) buttons.

I also have some tatted stars and needle lace stars in the works. And a bobbin lace star (design by Karen Thampson) on Alex Stillwell's Wordpress Site.  

I don't know what other artists do with their lace - I usually give most away.   Recently, though, I have had a 'theme' of sunflowers in different patterns that I'd like to arrange (somehow).

Sunflower: Teneriffe

Teneriffe Lace Sunflower (kit)

c.2020 Heirloom Arts

Kit and Instruction:  Joan Brash

https://teneriffelacekits.com/

Kit included EVERYTHNG. (Excellent) Instructions, Teneriffe Loom,

DMC Coton Perle 8, Col. 972, Lizbeth, Twirlz, Monarch, Czech beads,

Needles, Filament for beading.

Now off the loom!!

Now preparing for the next zoom session.

There are so many to choose from.

Check them out, here:   https://thelacemuseum.org/virtual-education/

 

WIPs: Sunflower and Star

Teneriffe Lace Kits

c.2020 Heirloom Arts

Joan Brash

Teneriffe Lace Sunflower

Petals complete - now to finish with Twirlz fiber on the outter rings.

 from Class One (of Three).

Beginning Needle Lace Star

Pattern + Instructions:  Loretta Holzberger c.2022

Sessions thre Virtual Education,

The Lace Museum.