Now for needle lace

Embroidery Chapter 4 is the last embroidery chapter in Volume 1, and is full of useful information about transferring embroidery designs to your fabric, but no project, so I've moved onto Needle-made Lace Chapter 1.  I consider needle made lace to be an embroidery technique, but Golden Hands treats it as a separate skill.  I have always liked this type of embroidery, but haven't had a go at it as it looks hard!

This chapter explains that needle lace is basically made by building up buttonhole stitch into patterns along the edge of fabric, or in a cut-out space in the fabric.  The Golden Hands sample in this chapter is a an edging made up of small triangular shapes:

My sample is unfortunately nothing like this picture.  The sides of my triangles are not as steep, and he shapes are shorter and fatter than they should be (a bit like me, really).  I used a fine crochet cotton, and I think if I used a thicker thread the triangles would have turned out better: