Andrea Ungethüm from the "Chemnitzer Klöppelwerkstatt" has designed this beautiful firebird lace for reworking. The pattern is also available with an English description. Have a look at it!

 The English Version of the pattern is…

The exchange among each other and personal contact has been almost non-existent. Nevertheless, we have not given up and have published two "Klöppeln mit Juliane" booklets in small numbers. There are still a few copies left of the first booklet in 2020. If you are interested in these or in older booklets or would like to exchange ideas with me, please contact me at info@erzgebirgische-kloeppelspitze.de. I look forward to seeing you!

Here you can find information about …

Thanks for all the encouragement, Lorelei! 

Top: net ground in tatting cotten

Upper left: diagonal drawn ground, size 30 Cebelia

Lower left: double fa99ot stitch, self thread & #30 Cebelia

Upper right: back stitch: #30 Cebelia

Lower right: 3-sided stitch: #20 Cebelia

Urn from top: Spaced satin stitch,…

Hello, my name is Mariëlle. I am doing bobbin lace for a year now, I am following a course on bobbin lace making but I wanted to do something by myself now in order to see what I can, to bring my “knowledge” in practice. So I almost finished this maple leaf. Is it Torchon? 

Now to plan the fillings. Yes, plan. Think ahead for once.

Pick one from A and apply it to B.…

Remember, I am not very accomplished yet. Now I am outlining the flowers as you can see on the left. Trying to use different outline stitches for each one. #20 Cebelia chain on mid-left, #10 Cebelia on upper left. The urn is plain reverse chain stitch in #10.

For the stems, some of them are chain stitch in a smaller thread, like tatting cotton, whipped with larger thread like Cebelia. That does a pretty good line. I believe the middle (tall) one is #30 whipped with #10. Another good…

How I squared up this wiggly loose-weave cloth to trace the pattern onto:

1. Cut out a piece 2 inches wider around the sides than the pattern.
2. Laid it on the top of the washing machine and squared it up.
3. Laid a piece of typing paper over the center where the design will go.
4. Sprayed all around the edges with heavy spray starch.
5. Let it dry.
6. Slid the design paper in under it; I should have put it under it before step 2.
7. Carefully…

Enlarge to see notations. Oops, misspelled "Palestrina".

Enlarge to make the notations readable.

Back sitch border.

Cushion stitch and combination of stitches

Anita Hansen please can you help me please to this pattern you Made this of Kumiko Nakazaki

I was going to do all the outlines, wash the starch out, then do the fillings, but in all the excitement I got started doing some of it already and filled up one of the vases with cushion stitch. This kind of embroidery requires a lot of counting threads. Fortunately, double backstitch is easy to pull out and restitch. Since the picture was made the corner has been filled in.…

Stitching the starched material seems to not be working as well as non-starched, but it had to be starched because it would not stay square for the tracing otherwise. Solution: Trace the lines, embroider all the boundaries and lines, wash it, do the fillings. 

The DMC "Embroidery transfer pen" came in the mail and works fine; that is, it draws just fine. I haven't tried washing it out yet. Before I do the finished vase pattern, I'm going to work the motifs on a practice piece. To do that, I copied the motifs so there are two of each (three of the top one) printed on a piece of paper, then I traced from the paper onto the cloth. 

Happy new year, everybody! This is a great day to start a project.…

I have looked all over and can't find any good (or bad) fine, somewhat loose-weave linen or even cotton cloth for pulled-thread work. I know it's out there because I have some samples from the past, but can't remember where I got it. I've looked at Joann and also online. Right now I'm not going out, so no going to the cloth stores to inspect the wares in person.

Also I've lost my good linen tester (device to measure threads per inch). Need to order a new one, I guess. It was iron (!)…

Found out why the marker hasn't arrived. I forgot to click on "Complete Transaction."

Done. 

It will be here next week.