My first blog post.

I'm going to use this blog to document my progress on my largest lace original design. I'm using a combination of Romanian point lace and Irish crochet lace to make a picture mat for my mother's going-away gift. (I hope she doesn't find this!)

I created the pattern a couple of weeks ago using templates from the book "Romainian Point Lace" by Angela Thompson & Kathleen Waller. I also made my own flower with some polar graph paper I found at http://mason.gmu.edu/~mmankus/Handson/polar.htm. The angel in the corner is from a pattern in the files at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CrochetLace/. I'm also involved in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish_Crochet_Lovers/ where I found a pattern for an Irish crochet butterfly that's going to be in the blank corner.

Speaking of the butterfly, time to go get started on it!