Bleh

I am having the worst time with the point de venice. The little suckers are driving me up the wall. Instead of looking like seed type things, they look like warped little bars. Grrr.

Phase 5

So, as I said before, I am in Phase 5 of le masterpiece:

As you can see, I've already done the ground (Phase 4) in Point d'Espagne and am now working on the filling stitch for the weird flower/umbrella/octopus type thing. So far, I'm keeping it simple and just using a really close corded buttonhole, but I'm thinking that in the big flower/umbrella/octopus type thing that I'll branch out into maybe some knotted stitches or something...


Any suggestions?

Victory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sooooo..... lace (making) adventures is back in business!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks to the wonders of technology, I (the genius that I am =P ) have figured out away to make it past the absence of a certain image capturing device (may it rest in peace) --> apparently, printer scanners are quite the useful little gadgets.

=D =D =D =D =D =D =D =D =D =D

Sorta Kinda

So, I'm sorta kinda back to blogging. My camera's taken a permanent sabbatical...so no pictures unless they've been scanned/swiped off the internet.

On another note, I am now on phase... (counting in head)... phase 5 (!) of le masterpiece 0.o I've finished the couching (literally like yesterday) and am now working on the filling stitches!! Muahahahaha.
Also, I've started working on another "piece" (that always sounded funny to me), where I make my first picots! It's almost done, I just have to finish the picotisized outline and buttonhole everything up =D

Be sure to check out the new page! Notes (More like observations)

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Until further notice, Lace Making Adventures will be on a break =(

My Masterpiece =D =D

Soooo..... I have decided to join all of my vast (not really) skills into one beautiful (amateur) work of art!
I started it like four days ago, and it's a piece of a significant size, so I've decided to publish posts of the "phases" (or "phases" of phases):

Phases 1, 2, and 3: Drawing the pattern, sewing it onto the backing, and pricking!:

Those red squares in the background (the big ones, not the little itsy bitsy ones) are centimeters--which makes this bad boy a whopping: 10cm x 15cm!

Whoa...

pretty pretty flower

Hiya there, so, I've been working on a little project that took waaaaaaaaaaaay longer than it should of, what with school and all. It was smaller than the palm of my hand, but then again priorities are priorities =)

   So, on your left you see the pattern. It's been sewn onto the backing (two pieces of fabric) and pricked to make the couching easier. Also, though you can't see it, I sewed another piece of paper (normal notebook paper) onto the back so I could see the pricking on that side also.
The great thing about needle lace is that you can make just about anything. It's great for free form shapes.

   Here, I've already finished the filling stitches. (I forgot to take the picture of the plain outline, whoops).  The dense part is a corded Brussels stitch, with a single Brussels stitch along the edge of the outline to give it that sort of suspended effect. I learned it from here. You can see the same effect on the left hand side of the picture, where the stitching is dense. The lighter area in this picture is a questionable pea stitch. it was definitely an educational experience.

 Tada!! In the final stages of production, I have finished the buttonholing and now need to remove it from the backing and fix up a few details here and there.
Also, that loopy thing on the right hand side is not a pitiful excuse for a picot, but a loop for a clasp. I was thinking of selling this, but I screwed up a couple things and I honestly couldn't turn it over unless it was as well made as possible.

She lives!!! =D
What felt like a month later, and it's done. Muahahahahahahahaha =D