Lorelei Halley's Blog – August 2011 Archive (2)

Needle Lace Tutorial

I have just created and published a needle lace tutorial with very basic stuff: how to set up, basic working methods, beginnings and endings, a few stitches, buttonholing the cordonnet/outline. I've posted it in two places. The content is the same, but they look a little different because the software is different.

http://lynxlace.com/needlelacetutorial.html

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Added by Lorelei Halley on August 5, 2011 at 2:20 — No Comments

Pulled thread tutorial 1

A SIMPLE SAMPLER OF SOME BASIC PULLED THREAD STITCHES

Row 1:

The photo ptsamp3a is a basic sampler I suggest for a beginner to practice on. It is not a hang-on-the-wall type of sampler, but a record for the stitcher's own use, so you can really see what happens with the particular stitch. The sampler is 17" long inside the stitched borders and 9 1/4" wide. I propose to make this into 10 rows, with each row having 3 columns. Each row will be one of the most basic… Continue

Added by Lorelei Halley on August 5, 2011 at 2:00 — No Comments