We are caring for one made for my DH's great aunt, about 1905. All the work
except the lace is hand done. Lovely embroidery and French seams. We've
been told that all the kids in the family have been christened in it but
I wish we had a record of it's travels. To that end, when I've made gowns,
I am in the process of planning to make a lace trimmed christening gown. A
first for me and I wondered if I could ask those of you who might have done
something like this in the past for the benefit of your experience.
Just as a point of interest what type of lace did you choose to do,
Was there
Sue,
This is the gown that I made for my niece. I didn't have a lot of time,
so I just made a simple Torchon
edging for the bottom with herringbone stitching to join the two piece
collar and cuffs. The pattern
was Linda (I think) from Doris Southard's Lessons in Bobbin Lacemaking.
Even
Cherry, some lovely little touches that I wouldn't have thought of, thank
you very much.
This gown is for a family member so the costs aren't relevant. It is the
lace that I will make by hand for sure, but I love the idea of the record
book to chart the gowns movements and useage. As one of
I haven't made a christening gown but I did make a bonnet to go with our
family gown.
I made the honeycomb rings edging from Geraldine Stott's 'Visual
Introduction to Bucks Point lace'. I found it grew quickly was a pretty,
narrow edging.
Carole
Portsmouth UK
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I used Geraldines book to teach myself Bucks Point and started at the
beginning of the book and had lots of strips of Bucks Point lace so I
made a dress, petticoat, hat and panties for a very small doll (5) and
dressed them all with the pieces of lace. I was very happy with the
results and it
Hello Sue
My Christening Gown started out as a wedding veil for my only
daughter but as I was working with computers had tired eyes at night and
although I had already done the large spray for the back of the veil I had only
done
36 pieces for the edgings. I and my children had
We have two here, Cloudy and Snowy, very appropriate for this part of
the country.
Jane Currah
in chilly Ely, Cambs. UK
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On 1/29/08 6:16 AM, Sue wrote:
Obviously this is the sort of garment worn just a few
times but has to be kept in storage for the greater part
of its life (I already know about the acid free paper),
but is there anything else I should know about long term
storage.
The only christening gown of
What lovely ideas these are, Cherry (reprinted below). Since you do
commission work, may I suggest that somewhere in the book you put some care
instructions?
1. Tell the textile content (cotton batiste, for example). Tell if it was
preshrunk before making up.
2. Tell maker's name
A friend of mine has just inherited 60 hankies and about 20 of them
have very beautiful lace and/or embroidery. Does anyone have
suggestions about how she could use or display them? (Besides their
original purpose, that is :D )
Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada
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I made mine using two narrow bucks point edgings with gimp rings as the main
feature in both edgings - one just has scallops of the little gimp rings and
very narrow ground (used that round the neck, cuffs and edged the bodice with
it), the wider of the two has circles of gimp circles along the
Subtle differences - mandolin is the instrument; mandoline the cooking tool
Sue
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To me a mandolin is rather like a banjo and certainly does NOT have
any blades. So I've no idea what you're talking about :)
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Rickie,
Does anyone have a mandoline, and know how to use it? I bought a
beautiful, nice stainless steel one years ago, in a fit of
wanna-be-martha-stewart, but have never gotten the hang of setting
it up, putting the blades in, and using it. Does anyone have any
tips or suggestions that
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