All year long I make bobbin lace, why?  So I have lots of curly thread ends to play about with at Christmas of course 😄 This fun decoration...

A grubby plastic bag, thick with dust, was pulled out from under the market stall.   "Been hoping you would come in today" the lad...

The rain is being driven hard against my window, storm Bert is half way through and the lights are flickering.  I got up early because the s...

This is a new technique to me.  I only knew of 'dancing spiders' or circles made with trails before.   Slincas use turning stitches ...

A Bedfordshire Cluny style (with a bit of Muaiga) Christmas tree bauble.   This can be worked from the loop downwards in one piece, or work ...

Winding, winding, winding, a never ending chore.  I have a few cases of bobbins which I always use for the first making of my own designs.  ...

Working the top band on the Christmas Stocking using Gimp threads and spiders. The thick, red thread on the sample is used as a single threa...

This Cluny style design with just a touch of Muaiga, was created while playing with a program on an ipad.  This is great fun to do but doesn...

This unseasonal Strawberry was a little diversion for me. A change of pace to use big, coloured threads and play about with beads.  The chal...

The shape of this little dog took my fancy one day, and I was about to start filling the outline with my favourite Bedfordshire stitches the...

Created as a butterfly, I wonder if the wings would work on their own, stiffened and attached to a figurine, maybe making an angel, or a fai...

The online bobbin lace group I enjoy socializing and learning with has chosen this rather sweet pattern of 11 giraffes made in Milanese Lace...

D ifferent ways of making a larger loop for picots. The Bobbin Lace Along FB group are making Bonny Van Bergan's Milanese lace 'Fami...

This handy bobbin case zips can double up to also hold books, threads etc as well as all the bobbins, ideal for classes.  I use a tapestry w...

 I love these fabric baskets, they always squash so nicely into a drawer. They fold flat when empty and  are made to fit exactly what goes i...

I found a new menu in one of my design programs so just had to have a go.  Not as instinctive as drawing by pencil but very tidy when it cam...

This time I played making bobbin rafts using an old, yew wood, scale ruler.  These were commonly used by designers, architects, machine inve...