An overhead view of the pattern and my bobbins. #bobbinlace @fiberarts @bobbinlace #lacemaking #BincheLace
@BethFishReads @fiberarts @bobbinlace this is magnificent... what will become of this piece once it is finished?
@bobbinlace @LookNoFurther @fiberarts it’s an oval edging. Traditionally it would be sewn to a piece of linen as a doily. I’ll likely frame it.
@BethFishReads @bobbinlace @fiberarts My Norwegian-American great=grandmother and her sisters did handwork that they called "tatting." Are you familiar with it? All of their pillowcases had tatted edges.
@LookNoFurther @BethFishReads I've done some tatting. You can also do it with a long needle where the eye is a relatively even width with the rest. I think it's easier to form the stitches in needle tatting, mostly because there's a trick to "flipping" the stitches in shuttle tatting. (It's also easier to do faster with a needle.) But, perhaps because I've done it more, I think forming the bigger structures in the lace is more intuitive in shuttle tatting.
@savourtardis @LookNoFurther I’ll have to try it
@savourtardis @BethFishReads my people used a needle, too