Yesterday's lace guild meeting was held at
Barrel Oak Winery in Delaplane, Va. The winery was bustling with activity: birthdays, anniversaries, social gatherings inside the tasting room and on the lawn...it was a wonderful place to be.
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Guildies Joy, Barbara and Anita sipping wine and
noshing picnic-style before making lace. |
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| Guildies Anita and Sherry, who was celebrating her birthday! |
We enjoyed a plentiful picnic-style feast and some superb Bowhaus White wine along with our lace making.
The morning started out brisk and bright, but warmed to springtime perfection.
Motif #20 Farfalla (a.k.a. Norma Jean) Butterfly
While waiting for the tasting room to open, I finished the Farfalla butterfly. Doesn't she look darling in the spring sunshine? (And this is straight off the shuttles, before her "beauty treatment" -- steam blocking to set the stitches and thread-end trimming.)
Even though her name is Farfalla, I think I shall call her Norma Jean, because of her delicate grace and striking beauty. A Marilyn Monroe waiting to be discovered, wouldn't you say?
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| Farfalla Butterfly |
You can find the free pattern on the Italian tatting web site:
CHIACCHIERINO The butterfly diagram can be found on this page:
Gioielli di chiacchierino
For those who are interested, the thread list:
- Lizbeth®20 #613 Golden Yellow Medium
- A blend of lavender/black/yellow threads for antennae
- Lizbeth®20 #139 Fruit Fizz for round 2 chains
- Lizbeth®20 #624 Raspberry Pink Medium for round 2 rings.
Norma Jean is so pretty I will tat her again in some pretty hand-dyed thread. Now, to choose....
But wait! I cannot forget to show you some of the lace we worked on at the winery.
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| Barbara's Salamander |
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| Sherry's Torchon ground |
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| Anita's tatted doily |
Great stuff! I am sorry to say I didn't get a photo of Joy's lace or my own penguin project, but these photos give you an idea of what fun we had on our winery outing.
