Stitched Up Gets Laced Up
Written by Vicky on June 26, 2009 – 11:20 pm -Well it seems a new craft wave has hit the Stitched Up group – bobbin lace. Thanks to our experienced lace maker Sue a few of us have been having a bash and picking up some lacey skills.
On Wednesday Laila was learning half stitch, whole stitch and twisted whole stitch:
This is what it looked like when it was finished. Pretty good for a first go eh?
Claire and I have also been learning lace making with Sue and we’ve written a little more about it on our respective blogs (Pinky & Boo and Victoria Louise). Sue shows us all how its done though and here is the beautiful piece she’s working on at the moment.
You can see more of Sue’s lace on her blog Travel, Fibre & Thread.
Don’t worry though, we haven’t abandoned other crafts. Stitched Up still embraces crafts of all types. Here’s a little snapshot of some of the projects our stitchy ladies were working on this week.
Margaret’s crochet times table helper. How clever is this?..
Jacqueline and Jane know how short British summers are so they’re knitting socks ready for the winter…
Stefka has made this enormous bag with the fluffy trim to be felted. She was also creating her own embroidery design which you can see on the table…
Claire was crocheting these beautifully delicate irish roses. These will be included in some of her lovely hand made items that she’ll be selling at the West Bridgford Craft Fair on 17th and 18th July.
And I’ve been embroidering on the print of these pretty folky napkins which are soon to become cushion covers.
As you can see we’re a real mixed bag at Stitched Up and so are our crafty interests and skills. If you’d like to join us then get in touch, all crafts welcome!
Tags: Crochet, Embroidery, Knitting, Lace making
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Quilter’s Cloth Review – Bag linings and book covers
Written by Vicky on November 23, 2008 – 6:15 pm -Well, as promised here are the first two creative projects made from the gorgeous Barefoot and Roses fabric kindly sent to us by Quilter’s Cloth.
Our resident crochet queen Margaret had crocheted this pretty grey handbag from the softest, chunky yarn. As soon as she saw the green candy stripe fabric pattern she knew it would make a lovely lining and she was right. Don’t the colours work well together?
Jaqueline had recently sat a course at the Textile Workshop on how to make book covers. She soon put her new found skills into practice using the dusky pink floral fabric. I believe these books are going to become a gift for one of Jaqueline’s friends and I’m sure they’ll love them.
Tags: bag, book, Crochet, lining
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Crochet ladies at Stitched UP.
Written by Sue on June 19, 2008 – 10:03 pm -
Just in case you wondered what we did on a Wednesday night, I took my camera down yesterday and snapped these pieces by two of our Crochet ladies. Above is Lailas wonderful textural piece that has been coming together over the last few weeks.
This fun version of noughts and crosses is by Margaret who also made a set of Russian Dolls!! ( saw them last week but no camera , will try and capture them soon) If you fancy learn how to crochet pop into the Textile Workshop for the full course list. If you just fancy bringing whatever you are working on, call in on a Wednesday night, 6-8.30. We have members that stitch, knit, bead and make lace, basically all stitch/thread crafts welcome.
Tags: Crochet
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