Yes, a bit of lace from "Tatting With Visual Patterns" by Mary Konior. I made a mistake, so there's a picot missing. I was going to put this on a pillowcase. After making the mistake I decided it was a good thing. This is size 20 thread. I've remade the edging in size 40, which is much better for the purpose. I finished it and joined it together last night. Now I have to wash it. No matter how many times I wash my hands when I use white thread it just looks grubby to me. Once it's washed and dried I'll sew it on the pillowcase. This is a first for me. I don't actually know why anyone would want to put lace on a pillowcase. However, it's one of the categories for entry in the State Fair and one I've not entered before. This piece might be re-purposed into a headband for a flower girl, because "wedding item" is one of the categories in the County Fair. If I use the picots as attachment points and put little beads there, nobody is going to know there's one picot missing -- there will be a bead after all.
For those of you on galloping horses, okay, those who don't have the inclination to stare at every picot on this bit, here's the error:
Yah, I know all about tatting with white; I just look at it and...shazam! Grime!
ReplyDeleteThat is a very pretty border. Looks super against red! : )
I looked awhile and couldn't find the missing picot. It looks perfect to me! Your headband idea sounds lovely.
ReplyDeleteMy great-aunt crocheted lace edgings on some pillowcases, and I loved using them. The pillowcases eventually wore out, but I still have the crocheted lace. She used a very good thread, looks like a cordonnet to me. Someday I may get around to sewing her lace onto new pillowcases - might encourage sweet dreams :-)
I like your headband idea... great way to hide a missing picot!
ReplyDeleteYour edging looks beautiful!!! :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful edging, I looked and could not see it, I don't think anyone would have really noticed the missing picot, but as it's for the fair you wanted it perfect.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to seeing the edging on the pillowcase.
Margaret
ReplyDeleteI hate that kind of mistakes, because I make them all the time. I ususally leave them.
Nice edging!