Lesley's Lace

A new addition to the Adventurous Aquarium series of patterns, Blossom the Whale is named after the tiny flowers in the ground.  Size 11.5cm...

 Ripple Fish  Another addition to the Adventurous Aquarium set of free patterns available on this blog, my Lesley's Lace facebook page a...

This Wriggly Tree uses the simple curve technique used in Idrija Lace and other tape laces.   The inside curves are not pinned but use a tur...

I thought it appropriate to release my Kelpies design in the Chinese Year of the Horse.   I am planning to make this one again, it has been ...

These bobbins were destined for the bin.  Rescued despite being seen as past their best and of no further use.  Their only crime was that th...

Keeping in with the recent heart theme, here's a little butterfly to play with.    I used this pattern to experiment with making a tape ...

 Swirly Turtle I designed this little turtle to practice the Idrija corners and bar techniques.   I cannot call it 'Idrija' because ...

The Grand Finale of the Hug of Hearts, the 25th following a series of 24 little hearts which used many different techniques, the 'Always...

 24 - The Torchon Heart. This Torchon Heart is a blank canvas to use your own choice of stitches or spiders.  I chose the ‘Heart’ spider of ...

 23 Sunshine Heart This Sunshine Heart features half stitch and plaits.   The edge is worked in both directions.  18 pairs (8 yellow, 10 edg...

22 Painted Heart  This little Painted Heart was made a while ago and had got squashed in the folder so I thought I would have some fun with...

 21 Pawprint Heart This Pawprint Heart features half stitch ovals, the outer pair is made in cloth stitch (ctc).   Choose your own edge tech...

 20 Cross Tally Heart Choose your own edge techniques. I chose a rather thick gold passive pair to replace two of the normal passive pairs. ...

 19. Rainbow Rolled Heart This heart features the threads left over from the number 11 Rainbow Arch Heart.   A two pair edge was started in ...

 18 My Moon and Stars   'You are my sun, my moon and all my stars' A line from an E.E.Cummings poem gave me the name for this heart....

 17 Tally Trio Heart This Flower Trio Heart shows how just changing the start point of a tally can alter the amount of petals on a flower an...

16. Snowflake Heart Silver sparkle thread is used throughout this little snowflake heart design. Each pair of Gutermann Silver glitter poly ...

 15. The Posy Heart This colourful heart uses tallies which hide a different colour inside. I made a simple half stitch edge with a cloth st...

 14. Clematis Heart This Clematis Heart likes to get its face into the sunshine so I made this eight petal flower climbing up a little bit o...

 13 Rainbow Tassel . This heart uses the same wide border pricking as number 9 in the series, the 'Wide Border' but uses cloth stitc...