Ooops!

Catch up time. I can't believe it is three months since I posted on this blog.  Part of the lack of weaving posts is that for the first part of the year my weaving was all related to planning and sampling for the next Professional Weavers' Network exhibition. That is still a work in progress and will remain under wraps for now.

Instead I will post some photos of my lace. Still very much a beginner, so these pics are probably not good enough for publication, , , but it's where I am at, mistakes and all, and for now everything is practice, practice, practice.  First the fun of Christmas decorations with two different styles of "icicles."  The first, with faceted beads, is quick, easy and fun. They automatically twist into spirals.

Then there are some torchon lace spirals. I found a pattern with several variations - no instructions but with help I managed some of them. They need to be stiffened slightly and wound around a pencil. 

One of the patterns had a stitch I had not met before so it was an opportunity to learn something new - triangular ground. I  really struggled with it to start with but mastered it in the end.

Then it was time to do something I am more familiar with.

My most recent piece was a project to replace some lace on the lid of a workbox I had been given as a gift. It's a long way around! 

I will have some weaving for my next post.