Lesley's Lace

A fellow bobbin lace maker, Pam Crouch, was gifted some Lotus thread and she wanted to make a bobbin lace lotus flower with some of it as a ...

Mildred the Magnificent is a Winged Serpent, known down the ages for being magical, intelligent, dangerous creatures, often found guarding t...

I tested two different threads, and two different styles of bobbins on these free egg Idrija Lace patterns by Tina Koder Grajzar created fo...

Inspired by the Idrija Lace School's first book, I used some of the techniques I learned in this Wriggly Bauble design.  The first techn...

Placing sequins between two narrow trails creates a much wider edge with a lot of sparkle. Video here    Sequin Edge in Bobbin Lace This ...

Spring Leaves is an older pattern I created back in 2022.  I recently came across it again as an unworked drawing and wondered why I hadn...

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. ...