Tonbridge Lacemakers

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Jane Ashby
designed this robin and worked it for a Christmas card sent to an Aunt who collects robins.
Jane used DMC stranded cottons as they were an easy source of the colours needed.
The Robin has since been framed as a keepsake

This cloth is the first lage project undertaken by
Jan Honess
it was worked during 2007/2008 using Finca thread

Jan Honess
worked these cute 'Hobbies' during 2009
Jan loved the challenge the little people presented
they are now framed and hung in her home

Jane Ashby
used 24 pairs bobbins wound with Madeira Tanne 30 to work Jenny Hester's pattern No 35 ( Interlocking V’s UFO)

Doreen Creed was presented with this trophy,
picured with her winning entry, for the 2009 Lace Challenge

Sue Piccioni
Sue is a campanologist so chose to enter this bell in the 2010 challenge 'A Christmas Decoration' and understandably she was awarded the trophy for the winning entry. She forgot to stiffen the finished bell before taking it off the pillow. So supporting it on a table tennis ball used laundry starch to stiffen it. The weight whilst wet caused the ends to curl, a happy accident resulting in its beautiful shape.

Liz Watkinson
Torcheon cat, a pattern from a past edition of the Lace Guild Magazine
worked in De Haviland 'silk' (not an ideal thread when you do as much un-lacing as I do)
but I love the colours and finish


The sampler below was also from a past edition of the Lace Guild magazine
worked in Finca thread, I have yet to mount it, when I have decided on a frame for it,
It is the first piece of work I managed to start myself and work virtually unaided.