Thanks to Jean for another a great lace advent calendar. I gave up trying to figure them out as there were so many point ground laces that I was sure I got some wrong. I missed doing the ornament exchange last Christmas. I have been doing the exchange ever since it began and loved trying to come up with a new idea for an ornament.  This year, as in many past years, I have given a hand made lace ornament to my yarn group. We make blankets, hats, etc., for seven local charities and I have given them lace for at least the last five years. This time I made a needlelace gnome head similar to those we see all over the States. It was a simple tall red triangle of corded Brussels stitch, all done in DMC 8, outlined with a thick cordonette, then I added a white yarn beard and a pink bead for the nose. I wrote out the instructions and took photos as I did it and the local Silvergate lace guild had a lesson in November making them.We had two finished gnomes before I had to head home. I must have made at least 22 of the gnomes as I sold 7 of them at our fund raising craft fair. Those members that purchased a gnome got a bobbin lace snowflake instead.They were cute and popular and easy to make in front of the telly. Did you do anything special in lace for Christmas 2022?Janice Janice Blair Murrieta, CA, jblace.com
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