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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
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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…
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 