Mixing art styles as well as lace techniques, this design features Honiton 4 and 5 pin holes and Blossom ground. A little sprinkle of Bedfordshire tally sprays and spiders, a touch of Muaiga magic and that's all there is to it!
A beautifully grained black walnut bowl provides the background, even though it does distort the lace a bit, well worth showing off such a lovely thing.
This piece was made with six groups of bobbins, each of the three leaf tips started working in both directions. For this I used a white Empress Egyptian machine quilting thread at around 28 wraps per centimeter, similar to DMC 80.
There were a lot of throwing out and throwing back in threads, so very hard to estimate the number of bobbins used in total, used around a caseful and a bit, so maybe about the 70 to 80 pair region.
The amount of over and underlaid crossings was fiddley, a lot of fine crochet hook work. I used a non rotating pillow for a change and really missed being able to turn the pillow a bit to get the tensions under control a bit better.
This is my original design which I painted onto slate quite a few years ago. The crossings were much easier to paint than to make in lace!
