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Continue reading →: Lace for the High SheriffA bit of a throwback post to two years ago, when I was one of the lacemakers who made the cuffs and jabot for the High Sheriff of East Yorkshire. Together with the amazing tailors at Cock of the Walk in Hull, Wolds Lacemakers have been commissioned to make…
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Continue reading →: Rainbow Milanese mini buntingMy lovely friend Kerry – talented designer and artist and all-round beautiful soul – recently opened her own art studio in Beverley (Check out her Instagram- Creative Joy: https://www.instagram.com/creativejoyuk?igsh=d3d1NW9paHppYmdl). When she invited me to visit her studio I knew I wanted to make something for her. Kerry’s designs are bold…
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Continue reading →: Wolds Lacemakers 40th anniversaryLast Saturday it was the 40th anniversary celebrations of Wolds Lacemakers who have been meeting in and around Hull since 1985, not long before I started making lace at a school in nearby Beverley, although I didn’t join the group until we moved back here eight years ago. At the…
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Continue reading →: What’s on my pillow- March 2025Bedfordshire butterfly, worked in gold silk threads for the Lace Guild’s 50th anniversary Golden Cape project- read about it here: https://www.laceguild.org/golden-cape
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Continue reading →: Four seasons in treesBack in 2022-3, I came across the Old Wise Tree pattern, created and shared by Lenka Suchanek on her website. Originally intending to do one tree, I quickly decided that I actually wanted to represent the changing seasons so created four using different coloured thread for each. You can read…
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Continue reading →: Listening whilst lacemakingSince I last posted on this blog (nearly 10 years ago! 😱) the digital landscape has shifted a few times. From the proliferation of blogs in the early 2010s, to more short forms such as Instagram and TikTok, the places and means by which we consume content online has been…
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Continue reading →: It’s been a while
Four months have passed since I’ve done any lace (and even longer since I’ve done any blogging). This isn’t unusual though- especially in winter when the nights are too dark to see the intricate stitches properly and I give in to my hibernation tendencies and just read on the sofa…
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Continue reading →: Lace in literature
One of the things I enjoyed about the Made Up initiative were the quotes from literature regarding sewing which Karen posted on her DidYouMakeThat blog. I’ve only ever found a handful relating to lace or lace making but I’m sharing a couple of my favourites here which are both of…
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Continue reading →: Made Up Initiative- completed!
I had so much fun making these items for the Made Up Initiative! I pledged to make two items back in August and here they are. First up, the Torchon bookmark. I’d not made much Torchon lace for a while so this was a lovely project to do on holiday…
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Continue reading →: Just
Yesterday I was winding the bobbins for the Torchon bookmark I’m making for my Made Up pledge and someone asked me what I was going to use them to make. ‘Oh, it’s just a bookmark’ I said, to which they replied ‘it doesn’t look like “just” a bookmark to me;…
Cattern Lace
Hello,
I’m Catherine
Welcome to Cattern Lace, a site dedicated to a love of lacemaking. Here, I will share projects, inspiration and and tutorials to help you get started with lace and to document my own lacemaking journey.
Cattern Lace 