Guild Archives

Photoshop edited & layered images, handstitched, surrounded in handmade bobbin lace. This photo, taken in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, was layered with an antique bobbin lace design before being embroidered & then decorated with needle & bobbin lace in metallic thread.

NSNG Christmas cards printed on fabric & pieced. In 2006, some of my closest friends sent me Christmas cards which co-ordinated well with each other. I made this jacket out of the memories associated with their cards.

NSNG Hand-made bobbin lace, in silk threads and wire. This piece won a “Medal of Excellence” in the U.K. Lace Guild’s Triennial Exhibition. The theme was “seven.” Each of the seven flowers has seven petals made out of the numeral “seven.”

NSNG Hand-made bobbin lace in silk, linen and cotton threads. Stiffened to retain shape. This piece won a “Medal of Excellence” in the U.K. Lace Guild’s Triennial Exhibition which had the theme of “seven”.

My first attempt at machine embroidered lace on a soluble fabric. This piece won its class and a “Medal of Excellence” in the U.K. Lace Guild’s Triennial Exhibition, which had the theme of “seven.”

Hand & machine stitched, beaded, hand-dyed silk ribbon embroidery on photograph printed on fabric. Photograph had been altered in Photoshop. This photograph was taken on a sunny day in 2014 when we visited Firs National Plaza with the friend who introduced me to bobbin lace-making, to show her where my husband worked. [Part of theContinue reading “Fountain at First National Plaza

Sue Babbs

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Hand embroidered & beaded purse made in February class with Diane Hyde at NSNG. Diane Hyde provided us with already pieced front and back panels to bead, embroider & embellish as we wished. Her instructions for assembly were amazingly clear and well produced.

Hand made bobbin lace in linen and metallic threads, attached to a bought metal frame. This bobbin lace Christmas scene was designed by Renate Richter. I made small changes to it and varied the colors from her original. The whole piece took 117 hours to make.

The stem is made of bobbin lace over felted cat fur. The flowers are needle lace. The lace leaves are machine embroidered. Beading techniques were used on the insects. This flower is a sub-Saharan desert rose. On the stem of the adenium is a beaded giraffe-necked weevil which is endemic to Madagascar and an imaginaryContinue reading “Purple Adenium

Sue Babbs

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Worked in traditional 17th century English raised embroidery and needlelace techniques using replica threads. This piece is the culmination of the Cabinet of Curiosities Part II Stumpwork Class and is a replica of a traditional mirror frame with doors, from the 17th century. Designed and taught online by Tricia Nguyen of Thistle Threads.

Embroidery and beadwork over painted batik fabrics. Amongst Gale Wessel’s stash was this irresistible mansion – tall and elegant like Gale herself – and there were also these quirky beads which reminded me of her great sense of humor!

Bobbin lace making in gold metallic and silk threads. This piece of lace has taken around 300 hours, including design and sampling time. It uses many unusual bobbin lace stitch combinations and required a special oval grid to be drawn, which gets wider as it radiates outwards.

Hand-made bobbin lace in cashmere and silk to own design. This blanket was designed to match the lace on a Christening dress which I exhibited at FAOF in 2010. Visitors to FAOF have seen this work in progress at the NSNG education table in the following years. The piece took 611 hours to complete.

Beaded and embroidered. This piece was created in NSNG’s class taught by Lisa Binkley in February 2017. The central print was fabric from Sue Spargo.

Bobbin lace & Kumihimo Braiding In this piece, the lone, red thread travels from the chaotic wild ground in the lower portion to the orderly Rose Ground Bobbin laced in the top corner.

Needlefelting, embroidery with threads and beads This piece was inspired by a photograph of moorlands in Yorkshire, England.

Handmade bobbin lace on silk gown. Symbols of baptism are included in the lace – drops of water, shells (which are used in some traditions to splash the water onto infants), the sign of the cross and triplets of holes to represent the Trinity.

Handmade bobbin lace in silk & metallic threads. Lace made using Torchon and Gravenmoer techniques.