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Contemporary Lace for You covers the widest possible range in one publication – inspiration, design, thread choices, handling colour, drawing exciting grids to add dynamic movement to our work and solving problems, through to ‘finishing’ and choosing equipment.

There is also an examination of the creative process, and the twists and turns we can take through a project as we seek answers to the questions hidden inside it.

Included is a close look at fibres, which examines methods of calibrating and evaluating the yarns you come across so that you can fit them to the grids in your lace, understand their special properties and use these to enhance your lacemaking. This is backed-up by a four-page yarn chart which gives you my feedback on types I have used myself.
 

Betty MacDonald

Betty MacDonald’s magnificent jacket (featured in the new book) has been worn many times and even represented America at an OIDFA congress. She has now made another, and whereas she asked a tailor to line the first one, this time she did it herself: ‘The lining was a mission but a lot of people would not think so; any good seamstress would do it in a snap.’ She is now making a lace over-blouse with a silk shift to wear underneath it: ‘So far it looks good, simple Torchon, but it could be any kind of lace’. We’ll keep you posted.