Where have we been for the last four weeks?

 Hi,

We have spent the last few weeks touring around the south of England, from Winchester to Cornwall. I'm not going to bore you with too many pics, just a flavour of our time away.

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.

Not missing, just chillin,

 normal service will resume shortly.

have a great week xx