#bobbinlace — Public Fediverse posts

I spent part of yesterday assessing the lace in the #RhodeIsland Historical Society collection on a baby cap reported to belong to a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Stephen Hopkins.

Look at the cartridge pleats on this teeny cap!

#Rev250 #BobbinLace

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Me evangelizing about the amazing women who made #IpswichLace at a #Rev250 event in #SudburyMA.

My colleague helps someone complete the "catch-of-the-day" beginner piece of bobbin lace.

#BobbinLace

#WIPWednesday I was about to say that I just cleared off the pillow for our upcoming lace retreat--we are doing "early lace" samplers and I'm psyched for that.

But I do, of course, have more pillows... And this one is the one I use to demonstrate Ipswich lace. Our lace group is doing a Revolution 250 event in Sudbury MA on the town common this weekend.

https://sudburyma.my.canva.site/sudbury250day

#BobbinLace #IpswichLace #Rev250

The web article that accompanies our Piecework magazine article is available. We talk about our #Rev250 event last spring with the tale of the Revolutionary lacemakers.

#BobbinLace #IpswichLace #Massachusetts250

https://pieceworkmagazine.com/lace-lives-on-bobbin-lace-in-ipswich-past-and-present/

I have an article coming out in the spring issue of Piecework Magazine. It's about #IpswichLace and it has stories of the women we are researching who made or used the lace.

The issue has a #Rev250 theme. Another article is about Abigail Adams and the accompanying pattern is a needlepoint of her house and a phrase:
To be Good
and
To do Good

I gasped when I saw it and thought of #ReneeNicoleGood . Patriots--the real kind.

#BobbinLace #embroidery

After a very hectic #Rev250 commitment schedule for April and May, I can finally get back to my own projects. I bought pre-tariff yarn for this, but it was waiting in the shadows....

For #WIPWednesday I have made my first "big" #BobbinLace. It's just a swatch now, I needed to feel how the yarn behaved. It's going to get bigger. I have a massive roller pillow to use for it.

It's a 300% sized #IpswichLace pattern.

For #WIPWednesday I have so much demonstration lace under way for #Rev250 that I needed to make myself another pin box. Yes, I have about 5 pin boxes already, but for different sized pins. I need them all...

These are Altoids boxes dressed up for events. All #IpswichLace related stuff.

#BobbinLace

For #WIPWednesday I have so much demonstration lace underway for #Rev250 that I needed to make myself another pin box. I have about 5 pin boxes already, but for different sized pins. I need them all... These are Altoids boxes dressed up for events. All #IpswichLace related stuff. #BobbinLace