The Needleworker’s Ultimate Resource Guide to Celebrating America’s 250th From commemoration to inspiration, we’ve gathered 30+ exhibitions, events, and resources to help you join the festivities.

PieceWork Magazine has a guide to #needlework events associated with #Rev250. You can ask to post your events too.

And yes, that is me at the #IpswichLace event we held for #Massachusetts250.

#America250 #Revolution250 #embroidery #bobbinlace #needlelace

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Lace Project | ColumbiaGorgeMuseum

Maggie Hensel-Brown has created another community lace project. She's teaching people basic needle lace and asking for triangles for a sampler of #PNW motifs.

Videos walk you through the whole thing, PDFs for pattern sizes are there.

Go #needlelace.

www.columbiagorgemuseum.org/lace-project

TTOT190 Stitching in the City: A History of Lace in New York Elena Kanagy-Loux surveys four centuries of history of lace production and consumption in New York City up to the present-day revival.

Lecture from the Royal School of #Needlework (RSN) this week.

#BobbinLace #Needlelace #lace

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This bell in needle lace is the last ornament from our 2025 lace ornament exchange. Designed and created by Amy O.

#minnesotalacesociety
#lacemaking
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This festive poinsettia in Romanian Point Lace, which is a combination of crochet and needle lace, was designed and created for our annual ornament exchange by Ela P.

#minnesotalacesociety
#lacemaking
#romanianpointlace
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#crochetlace

Page from the book. Text reads: THE NEIT LACE EMBROIDERY 37 CONE INSERTION FIG. XVII. This is a very pretty insertion for rather narrow spaces. For the foundation work a row of herring-bone stitches rather wide apart, fill in with weaving, beginning at the point and continuing to the middle, twist on a strand to the next point and repeat. (FIG. XVII: A diagram showing a vaguely cloud shaped outline with a zigzag of base threads. Weaving by is being applied to the points of each zig and zag.)

Today’s little serendipity is a wonderful Needlelace book from 1905, with great diagrams. Free to download

#needlelace

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Merry Christmas!

I made this needle lace bell for our annual Minnesota Lace Society ornament exchange this year. Designed by me.

#needlelace
#lacemaking

Pink lace butterfly on a grey background. The thread it is made with changed colour through various shades making gradients

I made a butterfly #NeedleLace

Lace Advent Calendar 2025 Lace Advent Calendar

Every year Jean Leader makes a #lace #AdventCalendar. Each day a new piece of lace is revealed behind the doors.

Today's piece is special and offers the pattern too. Click on the 2.

I might try it. I need a little ornament.

#BobbinLace #NeedleLace #tatting

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11m- rigid heddle weaving and blackwork embroidery
13m - needlefelting
14m - spinning wheel
and 15 months - needle lace, bobbin lace and back to tatting (it’s proper rating)

#RigidHeddleWeaving #Weaving #RHL #Needlefelting #Spinning #HandSpinning #Lace #NeedleLace #BobbinLace

Weep for me. I have been introduced to Aemilia Ars needle lace & now I want to do it.
#lace #AemiliaArs #lacemaking #needleLace

Lace Embrace in Dewey, Oklahoma is coming this Saturday, Oct. 4.

#tatting #bobbinlace #knitting #needlelace #crochet #sashiko #embroidery #oya #lace #lacemaking

So many options. What's on your needles? Or should I say what's in your hands?

#tatting #bobbinlace #knitting #knotting #needlelace #crochet #sashiko #hardanger #embroidery #weaving

Display Room Part 1 (IOLI Convention 2025) #tatting #knitting #bobbinlace #crochet #needlelace #lacemaking

Photo of a hand stitched green base for needle lace samples, made following the workbooks instructions sitting below it

The set up to make the lace samples is taking far more time than expected 🙄 in the book they do it with the sewing machine, which I don't have, and by hand is a nightmare 😆

#lace #needlelace #handmade #craft

Stitches in the air: celebrating Dubin's history through lace Sínann Fetherston chats with visual artist and lace maker Fiona Harrington to learn about the history of lace making in Ireland, and how she is using the practice to celebrate Dublin's tangled past.

Nice piece about a #lace artist from #Ireland and her residency at a museum in #Dublin.

The Irish have been very good at celebrating their lace traditions, IMHO.

#needlelace #bobbinlace

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Here's a needle lace motif I made recently to give away for the Minnesota Lace Society spring ornament exchange (my local lace guild).
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This purple needle lace medallion is our last exchange piece from our spring lace exchange, made by Amy O.

#minnesotalacesociety
#needlelace

I finally finished this project from a 2023 IOLI Convention in the needle lace technique Aemilia Ars. I made lots of mistakes, and my technique can definitely use some improvement, but it was a really fun class, and I learned a ton!
Design: Carolyn Wetzel
#needlelace #aemiliaars #lacemaking

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Cordonnet from beginning to the point where the stitch length was corrected

Note: I was completely unprepared for how much distance 3 mm is when working with 60/2 thread (that is, sewing thread)

The stitches go from right next to each other (which looks right) to different area codes (which does not)

Do not make my mistakes

Grab a ruler

#photoforpenance #needlelace

LMLT Newsletter — Spring 2025

Oh, the Lacis Museum newsletter highlights the #embroidery artist who takes old Army Surplus and embroiders on them as "journal jackets"! I loved that, saw it during the pandemic.

Also--the #Armenian #needlelace artist is terrific, I've heard her talk.

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Floating creatures.

#embroidery #handembroidery #needlelace #textileart

Alexander Hamilton and the Ruffle Kerfuffle (2025) Alexander Hamilton and the Ruffle Kerfuffle (2025)

I am cracking up at the Founding Fathers adorned with so much lace in the recent Ghosts episode "Alexander Hamilton and the Ruffle Kerfuffle".

Yes, it's machine lace, but still I swooned.

#BobbinLace #needlelace

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The Bayeux Tapestry at the Smithsonian? Yes, but who made it, when, where and why?

TIL: there is a #needlelace massive table runner inspired by the #BayeuxTapestry in the #Smithsonian. Well, if we aren't selling off America on eBay yet, I guess.

Also, since this piece was written they did find out who made it.

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Ready to learn #oya / #mediterraneanknottedlace/ #Armenianlace ? Join my class next month!

#lace #lacemaking #needlelace #knottedlace

Need some "doom crafting" inspiration? Wander over to www.atwistedpicot.com and check out our extensive inventory. Take 10% off most things with code SPRING through 2/17/25

#spinning #weaving #knitting #crochet #tatting #bobbinlace #oya #knottedlace #needlelace #embroidery #sashiko

I made this lampshade using the Ruskin Lace technique in linen thread on linen fabric- a mix of needle lace and hardanger style embroidery (cut & withdrawn thread), developed in The English Lake District. #Ruskinlace #embroidery #needlelace #lampshade #linen