Long Lace

I did end up cleaning on Friday. I'm not entirely certain why, but once that was done, I knew I could waste much more time with the bobbin lace. I finished the long piece I started the day before and started searching for somewhere to go from there. I looked up the different styles and I really wanted to try out different shapes, but I wasn't having much luck finding patterns with instructions nor ones that only needed 12 pairs of bobbins.

I then returned to the patterns I'd already done. I flipped through the prickings and saw I had printed out some plain dot paper. So I decided to try my hand at making it up myself. Of course my 'making it up' consisted totally of putting the elements I liked in the order I liked on the background I liked. No real designing was being done here. I just want to be clear that I haven't the still set yet for real designing in this medium and I'm not going to pretend I do. That being said, I was pretty proud of the piece I made. In fact I was so proud that I actually took the time to hide all the ends when I finished the piece. I also learned a few lesson about how not to start a design, so it was a win.

Other than the bobbin lace, the weekend was spent doing family things and working on my crochet project while reading. I even managed to finish one half of the crochet project.

The kids have one more week of classes at the college, so that's one more week of sitting outside with some project or other. I might just crochet, or I might bring my needle and thread and tat just for the sake of doing so. I still have no real projects, sales, or ideas to work on. The the summer is still young, so I still have hope.