{"id":1180,"date":"2011-03-10T16:34:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T21:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2011-03-10T16:37:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T21:37:23","slug":"a-handmade-lace-collar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1180","title":{"rendered":"A Handmade Lace Collar …"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the remainder, about 2\/3, of the antique handmade lace collar from which I snipped the little circular units I used in the Beachwork piece, see two previous posts, below.\u00a0 Each is about 1.5cm or \u00a03\/4″ across.<\/p>\n

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The workmanship is impeccable.\u00a0 I am sure\u00a0I have a book or two back in Aus that would give the exact directions,\u00a0but basically how I think they were made is:\u00a0 with something like a #8 or #12 perle cotton, wind the thread around something handy like a finger, several times, and commence buttonholing that circle – every 1\/8 distance around the edge, or perhaps that is every say, 10th buttonhole, cross to the other side and do 10 buttonhole sts there, then cross back, and repeat until 7 spokes are in place, on the 7th crossing wind the thread around over and through a few times then go over to the edge again to make the 8th spoke.\u00a0 A final buttonhole, or 10 ?\u00a0 finish it off, bury the ends somewhere, and voila.\u00a0 They were easy to snip apart, and so were clearly separately made then sewn together.\u00a0 Beautifully done – hard to find any ends at all.\u00a0\u00a0 Mind you I haven’t actually\u00a0tried it yet! \u00a0– but will as I’m sure it would work.\u00a0 They are so uniform that clearly some kind of rhythm developed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anyway, they made perfect little round thingies for my beachscape!\u00a0 and when I run out, I may need to make some more myself.\u00a0 I’ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the remainder, about 2\/3, of the antique handmade lace collar from which I snipped the little circular units I used in the Beachwork piece, see two previous posts, below.\u00a0 Each is about 1.5cm or \u00a03\/4″ across. The workmanship is impeccable.\u00a0 I am sure\u00a0I have a book or two back in Aus that would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-j2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/1185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}