The Earth Is Flat: & Other Dressmaking Conventions

Do your projects ever speak to you? I've been getting some increasingly clear messages from my second piece of lacis. It doesn't fee...

The second lacis piece is all stitched up at last. I'm still pondering my fall-back treatment for the stick...maybe carved and painted? ...

So today I finally got to the store and bought the thread I need to finish my 2nd lacis fan (and the proposed lacis partlet too, btw) and wh...

for my second fan so I'm stalled on that project until I can get to the store. (Sigh. So close too!) The good part of that situation is ...

The lovely big picture of this partlet at Web Gallery of Art pretty much makes it possible to count the threads so I have been counting, and...

Stitch, stitch stitch....

Portrait of Laura da Palo, Lorenzo Lotto 1544 (Detail) I swear this lady looks like she is wearing a variation on a potholder/trivet thingy...