metal lace

I finished the piece of metal thread bobbin lace to send to Plimoth Plantation. They have a project underway to replicate a 17th C English jacket. The original is at the Victoria and Albert Museum in england.

They have done some wonderful work getting the correct type of thread for the embroidery and lace. Here is link to their blog: http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/

Anyway, I spent a couple weekends helping do embroidery on the jacket, and now I wanted to make a practice lace piece to send to them. I have not really decided if I feel secure enough making lace to try and help on the actual jacket. I am fairly new to the bobbin lace craft.

II also got another Scroll done for my 50 challenge. Unfortunately I did not get a copy or picture of the finished product. That is unusual for me. I am usually really good at documenting my work. I do have some pics of the unfinished piece though. The person who was getting it owns an African Grey Parrot so I was looking for an image of a manuscript page with a parrot in it that I could alter.

Here is a picture of the whole thing, and another close up of the initial with the white work filled in. You can't see the parrot in the picture of the whole thing because he is not in there yet. The 2 parrots were the last thing I did on the scroll. This is the 12th Scroll I have completed towards my goal of 5o by the society's 50th anniversary.