6
Jun
2010
Needle Lace / Nadelspitze – “Stäbchen” & “Einfaches Gedrehtes Stäbchen”
Part 2 of my Needle Lace / Nadelspitze – Stäbchen posting – the last days I tried to get rid of my damn cold, sneezing and coughing and with a nice head ache on top… *sigh* and after the first two days I wanted to do something productive rather than sleeping and because I had no better idea I started to play around with needle lace and took some photos of how I do my “Stäbchen” – I hope you will find this photo documentation needful 
I lay the first “basic thread” for the next “Stäbchen”…
…then I lay the next “basic thread” for the “Stäbchen” and start with the first “Buttonhole stitch”…
…pull tightly … and make the next one and pull it tightly…
…make more of them…
…and here an example of a small insertion – a “Einfaches Gedrehtes Stäbchen”:
Lay a “basic thread” and tighten it, pull the needle with the thread as long around the thread until it winds around the basic thread and builds a new one…
…and I did 3 of them … and on the right pictures you can see the complete progress so far…
Wow,
That looks really fun
so very pretty. I love the little bits of darker green in it.
Hope you are feeling a little better this morning. I hate colds. It is the time of year for them i guess, changing seasons always causes problems.
no problems about the help re. Bayeux. I eventually found some wool that i can use from France so that should be ok. I’m sure i shall pick your brain when i hit some embroidery snags when it comes though
Have a good day, and get better
Sarah
I am so happy that I start feeling better
I keep my fingers crossed for your project – please feel free to ask if you need help – unfortunately I felt very bad the last days but I think the messages of the mailing list were very helpful
This is slightly similar, but slightly different, to needle tatting… or, perhaps it is exactly the same as needle tatting… I’m not sure from the pictures.
Check this out http://www.instructables.com/id/Tatted-Mask/
I checked the instruction for needle tatting – the idea is similar but it’s worked and executed different – for the simple stitch I made at this pictures I use an thread (instead of a needle) and ‘build’ the needle lace directly on it – here I just used ‘simple’ buttonhole stitches
…btw. the needle lace picots are also worked different as well as the filling stitches…
The blog is very nice.