Two Vintage Baby Laces

The jumble of lace you saw on my last post is now neatly wrapped round a card.

And for sale in my Web Shop.

Vintage Lace Edging 1001

This narrow Lace Edging is a perfect match for it.  

But good on it's own too.

Also in my Web Shop.

Vintage Lace Insertion 1002

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What's in my Paris Tins?

Antique French Laces found at the flea market!!

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Antique Swiss Embroideries

This is also from Betty's family Lace Collection.

I was so excited to see the large pieces of Swiss embroideries. Oh how I wish I could go down to the fabric store and purchase this by the yard!  

This is my favorite piece with the openwork bordering the embroidery.  With old textiles you need to be very careful that the piece is stable enough to actually use in a garment.  Much of this yardage had small holes or weak areas but there is some that might be used for  what ever you can imagine.

I am imagining a pretty yoke….fancy sleeves and if you could eek out enough undamaged Swiss, maybe a pretty hem.  Or a Christening Bonnet. It wouldn't get too much wear and tear!

Ladies, get out your handed down lace and use it on something  special!!

(then send me pictures)

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A Basket Full of Lace

This is lovely old Lace!

I spent part of the morning with a friend cutting this lace into pieces.  It will grace the edge of a Pillow Slip which is a project  for a class I am teaching at the upcoming Saga National Convention.

Three spaces still available!

This is not the lace in the kits.

I am teaching "Two Lovely Stitches".

Both hand stitches that really are lovely.  The Pin Stitch (also know as Point De Paris stitch) and Bermuda Faggoting (also know by several other names!).

We also cut yardage of this lace to package and sell at the spectacular Saga Market on Friday night.

My friend is seriously addicted to M and M's as well as lace.

(She bought an entire bolt of the lace home with her!)

Chocolate and Lace - what could be better?

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A Bunch of Lace and a Cute Tin

I found all this lace stuffed into a baggie at an antique store.  

A very lucky find!

Pretty design.

And a Friend gave me this very cute tin.

This is where it will live.

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Baby Betsy as Miss November!

Miss November

Baby Betsy has a new dress on for November as  some of you suggested she should.  She is going to Thanksgiving Dinner at Grandmama's house.  And will meet several Aunts for the first time.

That called for something special!

She is wearing a dress from the Old Fashioned Baby pattern "Antique Toddler Dresses".  It is a little large on her but the size 1 looks fine. 

The pattern has a Mock round yoke.  Which means it isn't a round yoke at all but only looks like one.  It is really  an easy square yoke pattern with a ruffle attached.

The sleeve band was made using Swiss Insertion for the band and  then lace edging was sewn onto it.  Notice that a narrow lace edging was stitched (by machine) to a lace insertion to create a winder lace edging.  Click on photo to enlarge.

The lace is antique and I didn't have a wide edging that went with it.  You can easily do that with lace that you have collected when you need a wider edging.  I actually think it is very pretty done this way.

Although this lace was old, it was readily available when the dress was made (but no longer).  This is a lesson for lace collectors (otherwise known as stashers) that what is available today, can not be had tomorrow!!  So rid yourself of any guilt when you add to your lovely lace collection.

This is the Fancy view in the pattern and there are two other versions that are simpler.  This dress is a very close copy of an Antique Baby Dress from the LSU Clothing Collection.

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How to Organize Antique Lace?

I love Antique Lace.

I just love lace, really.  But some of the prettiest laces are old.

Here is some of my lace wrapped around a toilet paper holder.

So, what I want to know is...

How do you organize Antique Lace!! ??

 Really, I am asking all of you to give me good ideas about this.  Send me pictures if you can.  I will share them.

This is how I don't do a good job organizing  my Antique Lace.  

I need help!

It's beautiful lace and deserves a nice storage space.

I'm waiting to hear from you!

added: You need to view the comments to see how others store their lace.  Here is a link to a wonderful storage idea from Faith, Grace and Crafts!  Don't miss it.  

"Of many Arts, one surpasses all.  For the maiden seated at her work flashes the smooth balls and thousand threads into the circle, ... and from this, her amusement, makes as much profit as a man earns by the sweat of his brow, and no maiden ever complains, at even, of the length of the day.  The issue is a fine web, which feeds the pride of the whole globe; which surrounds with its fine border cloaks and tuckers, and shows grandly round the throats and hands of Kings."               - Jacob Van Eyck, 1651.

Lace is a lovely part of life!

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Useful Antique Lace

Beautiful Lace at the bottom of an antique baby gown.

My guess is the gown was probably made around 1920.  The lace was stitched together by machine and the dress was made by machine.

Top part of the gown.  The lace runs from the shoulders to the hem.

I purchased this gown at an antique store with the intention of cutting up the gown to use the lace. The dress was tattered in places and was quite unusable but the lace was beautiful.

This is what I did with the lace!  

I am a conservator at heart and don't usually ruin a garment to use pieces of it.  But this gown was in tatters,  and it held no distinction as to design or technique.  It was good only for the materials.  And it was only a couple of $'s.

It made wonderful gifts for sewing friends!

You can make your own lace/fabric  jar top.  Just sew odd bits of lace together!

This is how I made it:
1.  I starched and pressed the lace/fabric.
2.  I  attached the lace to blue card stock paper using some kind of fusible from  my closet.  Don't know what it was!!   Does anyone know what one uses to fuse two things together?
3.  Then I used the metal jar lid (use a canning jar with a two piece lid) to trace the circle and I  cut out the lace/card stock top.
3.  Glue the card stock to the metal jar lid, with the lace part up.  Fill with something pretty and give away!!     Uh Oh, I gave them all away and I don't have one for myself!!

What will I do with the lace scraps?  Well, it is mostly a little section of the lace hem shown in the photo that is usable.

I love this little doll!  It has a cupie look but googly eyes.  I love the googly eye dolls!!

I want to make this little baby a dress!!