Freebies & Whatnots ​

This is my place for things that I can't work out where else to put.

​I just want to shout out about Jenny Brandis’ new web page on reading a Torchon lace pattern.

​It is fab. No other way to put it. If you are new to lace making (or not) she goes through each part and explains it.
​One of the difficulties in trying to look up help on lacemaking, when you are new, is that if you don’t know what the bit is called, how do you search for it?
​
This is definitely a page to bookmark. Mind you, so is every page on Jenny’s website.

Every Week an Edging or Insertion

Between 2014 and 2016 Gon Homburg published a pattern for an edging or insertion.
​
The idea behind this was to offer patterns across different European lace types in both English and Dutch.

Susan Roberts
Traditional Lacemaker

Susan Roberts' website is a wonderful treasure trove of articles, information and patterns. 

​I particularly love these patterns that Susan has designed based on a piece of lace in the collection of The Lace Guild

With all Susan's designs, you just find the one you love and click on the image to get to the pattern itself.

Rianne's Lace World

Rianne van Erven-Smits inspirational website has some lovely patterns on her pattern of the month pages.

The site is in Dutch, but if you access via google it will auto translate
Little Fishes
Alex Stillwell has some beautiful books that she has written on her site but one of her free resources is for little fishes.  Great to use for have a go pillows or as something to do after Christine Springett's snake for beginners.

Scroll down on Alex's free help files page to find the fishes download pdf.
Jo Edkins
Jo is a wonderful person who has created her own online lace school.

She has also created some great resources for kindle that are available from Amazon.