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Continue reading →: New workshop – Lace@Juice Saturday 13 September 2025For National Lacemaking day this year I’m really excited to be running an introductory bobbin lace workshop at Juice Studios in Hull. Over the three hours we’ll cover how to get started and the basic stitches, and everyone will be able to take home a pattern template and the work…
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Continue reading →: What’s on my pillow – July 2025Most of my lacemaking time at the moment is taken up with videos for #40lacestitches, of which this will also play a part. This is a Bucks Point motif, designed by Irene Tomlinson, kindly gifted at the last meeting of Wolds Lacemakers. Only just made a start, but I’m hoping…
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Continue reading →: #40lacestitchesAbout a year ago, when we started planning the celebrations for the Wolds Lacemakers 40th anniversary year, I suggested an idea to the committee that I’d been thinking about for a while. In talking to new and more experienced lacemakers and those who were interested in learning to make lace,…
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Continue reading →: Gold Bedfordshire butterflyIts the Lace Guild’s 50th anniversary in 2026 and for their legacy project they’re creating a cape decorated with gold pieces of lace with a theme of the natural world. The cape will be displayed at their golden anniversary weekend before being available for groups to borrow and display. In…
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Continue reading →: Heritage Crafts Red List of Endangered Crafts 2025Earlier this month I became a Trustee for Heritage Crafts, the charity which exists to support and promote heritage crafts and their practitioners. I was really keen to support the vital work of this amazing small team who do so much to raise the visibility and cultural importance of craft…
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Continue reading →: What’s on my pillow- April 2025This month, I’ve been working on something a bit different from my recent projects, experimenting with threads, textures and grids. Hopefully the final results will turn out how I’m intending.
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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
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 