the lace lady

 This is a project that I had intended to start in the summer but didn't get round to it. The lace lady was purchased in Dunster in the summer for the princely sum of £1.00.

My aim is to replace the lace on her dress ,and the lace that she is making, with handmade lace.

I've made a start, she now has a knitted shawl

and I've removed the price tag. I must see if I can sort the glasses out.

I'd not used my travel pillow for some time so I set up a very basic pricking, just 11 pairs of bobbins , to make a narrow band of lace.

I'm beginning to realise that my camera no longer likes to do close photography, been dropped too many times.

I also took the opportunity to replace the ribbon on my pillow with inkle woven bands, looks much better.

I realise that she  appears to have three very large bobbins. One fell off and is actually safe by my printer. I'm trying to think of a better way to do these and it may involve cocktail sticks at some point.

new lace project inspired by charity shop find

 Hi,

As you may have guessed, we have been away on our travels and one of our stops was at Dunster in Somerset. More about the Castle in a future post ( Interesting cross stitch) but we did call into the doll museum for a quick look round there second hand books and bric a brac on the way back to the bus stop.

That was where I spotted this little lady looking sad and unwanted with a price tag of £1.00, how could I leave her on the shelf? so she came back to the van with us and I think that it would be an interesting project to replace all the machine lace with bobbin lace. What do you think? shouldn't be too big a job and I do have a book of miniature lace patterns sat on the shelf at home,

The dress bodice is glued to the doll as is the cap but I think that I can get around that,

The chair and stand need a good sand down and maybe a coat of something. I have all the threads that I may need and it gives me an excuse to keep a lace pillow handy over the next few weeks,

BTW She is standing up due to not having knees and the complexity of the lace produced by just four bobbins is astounding.