Dipping into one of my favourite little bobbin lace books, Jean Leader's 'Introduction to Bedfordshire Lace', I treated myself to making the Cluny version of this bookmark.
To make it different, I added a chevron edge in two different pinks, a spiral feature down the wavy trail in two different greens, and then went for a different variegated thread for each of the leaf tally flowers.
The 4 pairs of coloured thread on each flower were hidden away using the magic thread method. This has become my 'go to' method if I don't need to carry the colour to another place. I wish I had discovered it much earlier!
The video for the Magic Threads is here :- https://youtu.be/Gqo_B--AG8k?si=lxBu97MW5iAyBgix
The video for making a leaf tally is here :- https://youtu.be/Thc-6D7Y1ZE?si=M1_jrkO8Z9U708w1
The variegated threads were a mixture of DMC 50 and old Anchor reels of cotton both makes being much finer than the white thread. This gave the leaf tallies many more weaves to complete, and I think they benefitted from the finer thread.
