Lacemaking

My grandmother, who died recently, used to be very good at lacemaking. Learnt it at an evening class in Dartmouth when my father was young, quickly churning out very beautiful pieces - some of which I remember hanging up in my grandmother's house.

There's a little collage of her smaller pieces in a frame hung up in my house right now, which is good to look at every now and then as inspiration. She made flowers, animals, motifs - all sorts. She learnt the method of lacemaking with bobbin pins, which I now have. Including a tiny collection of vintage bobbin pins. Along with that I have a huge reel of lacemaking thread, a magnifier, lace pins and two very tiny crochet hooks used for tatting (lace edging)

I bought a book recently that has a section on learning lacemaking, so I'll be trying it out when I make a board or cushion to work from.