Sadia’s Blog

My journey all along has been to recreate vintage embroideries on the home embroidery machines. Why  not extend that to the vintage laces as well. With that I’m extremely pleased to be finally finished with a new look of vintage laces. The mixture is of crochet and tatting combined together with a bit of the Irish look of laces with dimensional flowers that are added to the lace itself. The laces are so extremely delicate in appearance and feel but yet extremely sturdy for years to come.

Even though the laces are meant to recreate vintage laces, yet I wanted to be able to utilise them in modern day clothing and decor using regular 40 wt thread. My inital thought had been to use 50/60 wt threads for creating the delicate look but with time I decided that to find the 50/60 wt thread would limit friends so I kept to the 40 wt thread.

The laces are just about finalised and ready for showcase at the upcoming ASG annual conference in California. As I will be also having a two day seminar at Ruth Barnhill’s in Florida I intend to take these along.

The vintage laces have a definite different look from any of the laces that I have created so far. Not only is the stitch count extremely low but the openness of  the laces lends to using them in more than just doilies, runners, etc. My ultimate test was to use them in creating a baby bonnet using all the lace panels available and even I had to step back and do a double take upon completion.

Using various types of threads of course yeilds different feel to the laces and I was pleased that using polyester threads as well as rayon threads gave similar look…however a definitely different feel. Yes….my signature candlewick accompanies the lace!