Lace-making begun

  So let me introduce you to Anna from the Czech republic, our tutor for the week.  That’s her on the right, showing Rachel from South Yorkshire how to get started on her piece of lace, a butterfly which you will see in due course.  Anna had laid out a small exhibition of some of the pieces she thought we could tackle, including earrings and pendants to match, stylised, birds and flowers…,

 

 

 

 

….some elaborate jewellery….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  … a simple sculpture, or individually the pieces can be napkin holders...

 

 

…fish, using stones for the bodies…

 

 

 

…and continuing the sea theme, a seahorse. 

Linda, our hostess, has an old fish tank that she plans to use to display her fish and the seahorse! Sounds good!

Amazing what you can make with a few threads attached to bobbins, isn’t it! 

So most of us had made our choices last night, and prepared our patterns – pricking pin holes in card, in readiness for weaving our threads on their bobbins, and today we got started in earnest.  Anna is an excellent teacher, so before long we were all clicking away with our bobbins, deep in concentration.

So, to introduce us now…

This is Linda, our hostess…

 

 

 

 

 

….Rachel…

 

 

…Catherine…

 

 

 

 

.,..Rosemary…

 

 

 

 

…Pat…

 

 

 

 

…the other Pat…

 

 

 

 

…and Mary.

 

 

 

Next time I’ll show you the masterpieces  we are or have been working on.

Talk again soon.