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1. Lacemaking Bobbins Lacemaking Bobbins are the favorite tool of lacemakers as I discovered when I realised just how many my wife uses in her lacemaking activities. As some of the more complex pieces of lace can take hundreds of pairs of bobbins there were frequent cries...
2. The almost lost art of Tatting - making lace with a shuttle. Many years ago I picked up the almost lost art of tatting.  Just basically one stitch over and over again but so difficult to master right off the bat.  This difficulty plus the slowness of the work made it kind of fall out of favor. ...
3. Lacemaking Tools Every lacemaker will tell you that the tools they use are one of the joys of lacemaking. The most important are the lacemaking bobbins the pillow and the pins, but there are other tools that are used that help a lacemaker to produce good work easily,...
4. Vogue handcrafting knitting Around the world, crochet became a thriving cottage industry, particularly in Ireland and northern France, supporting communities whose traditional livelihoods had been damaged by wars, changes in farming and land use, and crop failures. Women and so...
5. Pillow Talk - News and Views for Lacemakers  I have been obsessed by thread and fabric related crafts for many years, lacemaking being my main obsession but closely followed by Tatting, Embroidery, Quilting, Sewing, Box Making.....perhaps it is easier to say that if I don't do it, it's on...