When visiting Ireland in summer, we stumbled upon a small museum of lace in Kenmare, “Kenmare Lace and Design Centre”. With me being a textile addict we, of course, had to go and check it out. Here is a souvenir set of cards:
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The centre is very inspirational: not only
it has a very impressive examples of antique lace, but also a selection of
contemporary crafts as well as craft supplies for sale. After seeing that, I
was itching to go back home and crochet something as intricate as possible.
Here is what I’ve done.
There was a small green organza bag lying in my supply box and waiting
to be used, so I decided to decorate it with crocheted flower (the same pattern
as for the legwarmers) and make it into a lavender pouch. I used a plain green sewing
thread and, just to add more history to it, a 100+ year old hook that I got
from my grandmother. Now that must qualify as lace! The bag is available in my
shop.
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