Members' Lace Challenge 1:
Inspired by the Stash
Scroll down to see the challenge entries.
Melanie Runge, Wichita, Kansas
This is a fan I designed in a convention class with Debby Beever, several years ago. By the end of class I had the design and pricking completed and possible threads chosen.
I learned a lot going from my design to making the lace, such as where pairs needed to go to follow the pattern and how to manipulate some pairs in order to achieve the design I was looking for.
Then it sat in my "to do" pile gathering dust.
This pandemic gave me time to make the fan.
It is resting on the pillow at present.
Next step is to remove it from the pillow and mount to the fan sticks, then frame it.
Melanie R
Carol Bassoni, Gilroy, California
I've held onto this disintegrating lampshade for years thinking I would make a lace replacement shade.
Recently I found some cebellia cotton thread in a closet while I was looking for something else, and I think I've found a pattern big enough to finally try it. So I plan to knit a lampshade!
Carol Bassoni
Still got a ways to go, but I'm getting there.
Carol
I finally finished and mounted my lampshade.
Carol Bassoni
Yesterday I found, in my stash, prickings and yarn for a project, I think shawlette would be the closest description. The two skeins of green wool were with the pattern from Denmark. So we’ll see where I am on 3/31!
Pat
KarenThompson, Bethany Beach, Delaware
This is one box of the many fibers I plan to use for something this winter.
Karen Thompson
I used some of the threads in my stash for creating a piece I call the Chesapeake, symbolizing the water and waves in the Chesapeake Bay for a banner to be created by the Chesapeake Region Lace Guild.
My pattern, my work. The threads I used for this project are Wonderfil Accent and Gold Dust as the gimp.
Karen
Chesapeake in progress
Chesapeake close up
Mary DeGrow, Winnepeg, Manitoba
I have been entirely working out of the stash, made a slight dint only so I will enter a 2020 Covid bangle when I finish it and then maybe something else but not sure yet.
Mary DeGrow
Finished the numbers today, last day of 2020.
Used cream 50/2 linen, I think, no label, given to me by a lacemaking friend who didn’t care for it, too slubby and red 50/2 or thinner cotton from my mother’s work basket.
Mary DeGrow
Peggy Bowen, West Fork, Arkansas
Cuff from The Technique of Bruges Flower Lace by Sorensen. Made after taking a class at convention maybe 20 years ago?? The lace had turned yellow. I actually had to bleach it to get the white back, something I don’t like to do... But the mask fits and is washable so I guess it’s ok.
Peggy Bowen
I hope to make another paper crane by March 31, but in case I don’t, here is the first one .
Mary McGuinness, New Jersey, USA
At the 11th hour, I have this square that I made with leftover satin thread from an older project. Yes, I did hope to find something else to make from it. Then at our October meeting, Beth Harpell presented the pattern for a lace square, suitable for putting into a locket. I decided to substitute the colored satin thread and this was the result. Thread from my stash (Pipers 80/3 Spun Silk) with a new purpose!
Mary McGuinness
Ronna Robertson, Manhattan, Kansas
Here is the quilt I made with my doily collection for the first challenge.
Ronna Robertson
Melanie Cervi, Monterey, California
I would like to submit the attached photo of what has inspired me to use thread from my stash. The tatted pattern was designed by Marilee Rockley. She was inspired by a necklace worn by Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Click here to see the Dissent Collar designed by Marilee Rockley.
I immediately saw this lovely pattern worked in Lizbeth metallics size 20 color 325 Gem Stone by Handy Hands with dark colored beads. Click here to see the thread.
Thank you for the Challenge!
I've completed the necklace. It's not really my type of jewelry, so I'll never wear it. Several friends have drooled over it though. I hope members enjoy seeing the finished version.
Melanie Cervi
Celeste Onorati, Kent , Washington
This beautiful yarn is from Alaska. Handmade by Raven Frog Fibers in Sitka. The sparkly one is Nylon/Merino and the Wooly Bear is Mohair Merino.
I'm visualizing a combination of crocheted and Torchon work. I like to think outside the box on occasion.
Ciao for now,
Celeste Onorati
Here is my work in progress for the challenge. It will be a shawl. Stay safe, make lace, Celeste Onorati
Alice Howell, McMinnville, Oregon
Challenge: A pretty lamp with a battered shade.
Replace the parchment and overlay it with lace.
Will use parts of two patterns from "Kloppelspitzen Kegel und Stelen" by Marianne Geissendorfer and Dana Mihulkova.
Here is a picture of my finished challenge lampshade.
Alice Howell
Anita Barry, Amissville, Virginia
A distant relative rescued unfinished vintage tatting from a thrift. It still had the tatting shuttle attached to the project. As you can see, the project was completed enough to draw the pattern and complete the unfinished motif with the original shuttle. How invigorating it felt tatting with another tatter’s shuttle and completing a project that tatter intended to complete. The warmth! The energy!!!
I searched my threads to find a color shade close to the vintage thread.
I completed the project and sewed it to a blouse I proudly wear!
I loved this project!
Cheers,
Anita Barry
Amissville, Virginia
Sally Jenkins, Oregon
The pattern called Brigitte Circle is by Jenny Brandis of Perth, Australia, and has 60 divisions around the outside, so I knew immediately I wanted to make it for the purpose of eventually using it as a clock face. The clock part isn't done yet, but the lace is. Why it fits the Stash Challenge is this. Early in the Covid lockdown, I had decided to avoid ordering thread or anything else non-essential. The delivery people at the time were working very hard and were fearful, as so much was unknown about the virus then.
I wound all my bobbins with black Gütermann silk S303, except I ran out with two pairs to go! Those I wound with Gütermann 100% Cotton that I had on hand. Additionally, a couple of my worker pairs in the narrow trails ran out and although they had started out silk, I had to add cotton then. The metallic is Presencia 50, two-ply gold. Because I had three different kinds of thread, with three different shrinkage rates, I starched the piece still pinned in place.
Sally Jenkins