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Lace in many forms including motifs, appliqué, trim, galloon, crochet, and yardage is often used to embellish Crazy Quilt blocks. It is often dyed, painted, or otherwise colored-as explored in previous articles in CQMagOnline. Lace can also be embellished with embroidery, silk ribbon, beads, sequins, trims -the list is endless as your imagination!
One of my favorite ways to enhance lace is to use silk ribbon. I try to overlay the design on the lace. Following are some examples and how they were achieved.
| On this white lace floral motif, I over embroidered the flowers with 7mm organza ribbon and added organza ribbon leaves. |
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| In this Venice lace flower basket motif, I wove 2mm ribbon through the handle and basket, and added Silk ribbon flowers over the lace flowers and silk ribbon leaves in Japanese ribbon stitch over the lace leaves |
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| This lace fan was crocheted and then embellished with Silk Ribbon pansies. A brass charm was added and a small embroidered tassel to finish. |
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| Believe it or not, this is an embroidered organza collar that was embellished with Organza Ribbon, silk thread, and beads. |
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| Here is a piece of lace that was taken from the border of yardage. It was enhanced with Organza ribbon, silk ribbon, silk thread and pearls. |
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| I also like to use fibers to bring out the design in lace. Here is a picture of a floral Venice lace motif that was highlighted with a fiber by Needle Necessities call Charleston that is fuzzy and glittery. Beads were also added. |
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| Lace trim is wonderful to use and is available in such a variety of colors and styles and materials. I love this black nylon (yes-nylon!) lace which is about 3" wide and already enhanced with silver and gold metallic thread. Here are two examples of how I embellished it-the first using sequins and beads, the second, sequins, beads, rhinestone trim, and another piece of lace as well as jewelry findings. |
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| Re-embroidering lace is time consuming but the results can be wonderful. Here are two examples. This was a wide piece of heavy cotton lace. I embroidered it with Caron Waterlillies. |
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| As the base of the tall flowers is a piece of lace trim that was re-embroidered with Rayon thread, then beaded. |
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I have given you a few examples of the different ways to enhance lace. As I said, I believe the possibilities are endless!!! I hope I have started your creative juices flowing and you will share with us at the magazine what I may have inspired with this article.
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