Members' Lace Challenge 4 :

 UnCon 2.0 Finishing

Allie Marguccio: Idrija Lace

Idrija angel lace 

by Colette Billen, Oceanside, CA

Idrija angel lace on form

by Colette Billen, Oceanside, CA.

Idrija angel, first of three made by Julia Brock, Riverside, CA.

First angel on the pillow 

by Julia Brock, Riverside, CA.

Second and third angels 

by Julia Brock, Riverside, CA.

I had the pleasure of taking the Idrija lace class with Allie Marguccio. She is a wonderful and patient teacher, and I enjoyed the class very much.

We made an angel!  I purchased the wooden angel bodies from her husband, Tom, and completed the white and silver angel shortly after the class was completed. Then I immediately made a blue and silver angel as a Christmas gift for my sister.  We used Idrija 30 thread, and DMC metallic silver thread.  While I had worked on several Idrija patterns prior to this class, there were new techniques to make the angel an interesting step on my lacing journey.  

This was a challenging project, but Allie made it doable!

Renden Hornung, 

Florissant, Missouri

Anna McDowell: Cartwheel Dorset Button

I also took the Dorset Cartwheel Button class with Anna McDowell and completed my first button in the class.

Mary McGuinness

Elizabeth Peterson: Beginning Beds

Here is a photo of the piece I finished while moderating Elizabeth Peterson's Beginning Bedfordshire Lace class.

Anita Hansen, Cedar Rapids, Iowa



Elizabeth Peterson: Continuing Beds

These three are from Continuing Beds with Elizabeth Peterson. I have one more left to do.

LeAnn Smith, Oregon

 I'm not a huge fan of leaves but couldn't resist trying it!

Anita Hansen, Cedar Rapids, Iowa


I finished four of the five projects from Elizabeth Peterson’s Continuing Beds class.  This was by far the most leaves I ever made in a short period of time.  I finished the last piece about three weeks after the class.  

Mary McGuinness, New Jersey

Louise Colgan: Milanese Lace

Milanese Hearts

by Colette Billen, Oceanside, CA

Michèle Kelly: Modern Grounds

This is a picture showing what I did with the samples I made during the course with Michèle Kelly.

Cheryl Ford, Ontario, Canada

Mosaic ground

Sally Olsen, Iowa

Leaf in various fibers

Sally Olsen, Iowa

Leaf 100% silk Tulipano

Sally Olsen, Iowa

Marie Treanor: Clones Lace

Wild Rose Garden finished after classes were over.  

Sheila Wright

North Liberty, Iowa

Clones Lace purse project finished after classes.

Sheila Wright

North Liberty, Iowa

Martina Wolter-Kampmann:  Invisible Starts & Finishes

I did each piece in class, and all but one I repeated by myself the next week. I have used 3 of the 6 methods taught in other projects since the class. 

Sally Jenkins, Creswell, Oregon 

  I learned a lot of new techniques in this class!

Anita Hansen, Cedar Rapids, Iowa


Veronika Irvine: Learning GroundForge

A ground-stitch I created using an ordinary spider crossing as the base, then applying tools learned during the course. I used six-strand silk embroidery floss for the example.Bev Walker in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada 

Victoria Ong

Here's my climbing heart piece from her class.

Joan Thomas, Arkansas

I bought her latest edgings book and made her fringe butterfly pattern too!

Joan Thomas, Arkansas