Monday, February 14, 2011

Needle Lace Doily From Turkey!

Zuzu's World on Etsy is offering this lovely Mediterranean needle lace doily for $175.00.  How lovely is that?!  Zuzu also has a little blog.
Maybe you don't have $175.00 for this lovely piece, but you do have $15.00 for an instruction book to learn this technique: Mediterranean Knotted Lace by Elena Dickson is available from ABEBooks or Amazon.
Wikipedia has a brief article on this technique.   Members of  the Needle Lace Talk discussion group have comments on books and available kits.


Saturday, February 12, 2011

White Square Mini Flower Doily

Check out this sweet doily or runner in little flower motifs.  Click here for a description and supersized photo which is as good as a pattern.
 It would be cute done in different colors or just plain white - I like white or cream myself.

http://turkishlace-crochetworkbydemet.blogspot.com/2008/11/white-squaremini-flower-doily.html

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Butterfly Doily or Centerpiece

How darling is that?   Imagine the butterflies' wings  done in different colors - with little black bodies and antennae of course.  Click here for more details.
UPDATE !!:  This pattern is available in this lovely Picasa album specifically  here, here, here and here

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Lovely Lovely Jasmine Doily

Check this post at the Only Crochet blog for a lovely "Jasmine" Doily.  A chart is included, but it's not a very big image so hard to read.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Spider Web Afgan

I rarely crochet with yarn, but I love to see anything with a spider or spider web motif.
Please click here for a description of the afgan.

Friday, February 4, 2011

How Cool is this Runner!

"From Burda Crochet Fall 2000".  I could not find any other information about this, but it's very intriguing.