Bobbin Lace – Suprisingly Simple – Incredibly Exquisite
Beginner
Required Skills:
Students should be comfortable reading diagrams. If you can set up a warp from a draft or knit from symbols, you should be able to translate lace color diagrams to specific movements.
Class Length:
Two and a Half Days
Class Times:
Friday, 9 am to 12 pm
Friday, 2 pm to 5 pm
Saturday, 9 am to 12 pm
Saturday, 2 pm to 5 pm
Sunday, 9 am to 12 pm
The class covers the basics of making Torchon lace - a beginning level bobbin lace. All equipment and supplies are provided. Students will learn how to prepare bobbins, pricking and pillow. They will learn the three basic stitches doing some practice lace and move on to a bookmark design which includes all the stitches. While working, they will learn to read color diagrams so that they can work on a wide variety of designs later, and will possibly develop a sense of how to design this lace for themselves.
Registration Fees:
For FTWG Members: $425
For all others: $500
Materials Fee:
$85
Materials Fee Includes:
Covered Lace Pillow* with matching cover cloth and pincushion Bobbins, Pins Divider pins Pricking card stock Linen thread Bobbin holder Bookmark sleeve Pearl cotton threads Colored diagrams Instruction packet And anything else Peggy can think of! *This is a temporary pillow but will last for quite a while."
Registration Fees are paid when you register to attend the FTWG Conference. Materials fees are paid directly to the instructor at the beginning of class. You should plan to pay the materials fee in cash.
- Small scissors
- Light if desired
- Pencil and paper
- Bath towel (to support pillow at a comfortable angle)
- A small pin vise is not necessary, but quite useful
- Students may bring a lace pillow and bobbins if they have them, which could be used to set up an additional pattern if there is time.
Peggy DiNegro has always liked to "make things" from Indian bead rings and doll clothes in grade school, to sea shell jewelry and her own clothes in high school, to majoring in ceramics and photography at the University of Michigan. She followed that with a Masters Degree: Teaching Crafts in the Community College from the University of Florida. Peggy's working years were spent teaching art - well really crafts - in the Gainesville Public Schools. She has taught various crafts to weaving and other groups, to the junior college's adult ed program, and wherever else opportunity arose. She continues to take lace classes whenever offered from a variety of teachers including Robin Lewis-Wild and Holly Van Sciver. Most recently, Peggy taught lace at Convergence 2022 in Louisville, KY.
These photos were provided by the instructor to demonstrate the experience of taking this class.
