Needlelace

As I mentioned in my Around the World blog hop post, I'm starting a new Needlelace class tomorrow. This is an extension class for those who have completed the first class. I certainly went to all the lessons for the first class, but sadly I still haven't finished my sampler. The good news is that I did pick it up this week and started working on it again - more on that later.

First, and more excitingly, is the piece I'm going to start tomorrow. This was what we had to do before the first lesson:

This is called 'preparing the grid'. I did this by carefully marking out the box and stitching rows of four sided stitch around it.

I then did a row of satin stitch inside the four sided stitch. Next I marked out the threads that were to remain, and then I started cutting very, very carefully.

I left 4 threads at each of the marked points.

Then I wrapped the threads with an over and under motion, being careful not to overwrap them and leave them distorted (although some of mine are a little bit).

Wrapped bars

So I'm already to start tomorrow. The picture below is what we are aiming to create. We'll see how that goes!

As for the piece I started two years ago. I have made a little bit of progress this week. I had to remember how to do Corded Brussels stitch and picots, but I'll probably need them tomorrow so it was a good refresher.  Here is is now:

a small bit of progress has been made on the left hand side

This was how I left it two years ago



So some progress has been made and I'm ready for tomorrow.