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Rebecca is a well known expert and fancier of chain stitch machines with an especial affection for Willcox & Gibbs chain stitchers. Always up for a challenge, Rebecca decided to create what she feels has never been done before, lace made with a chain stitch machine. Traditional doilies are made with crochet or knitting techniques. Rebecca experimented and combined techniques from a variety of books and sewing machine manuals. She began by using a serger set to the rolled edge setting with three matched polyester embroidery threads to create her own braid. She found this trick in serger books as a technique to form tassels. Next, Rebecca took Sulky water soluble stabilizer and laid it out on her gridded cutting mat. With a clear Omnigrid ruler and a Sharpie she laid out the spokes of the web directly on the stabilizer. To get a perfect thread match, she used the same embroidery thread from making the braid and sewed the braid to the spokes in straight lines first and then created the rest of the web free hand beginning in the middle and working to the outer edge. it is the same technique seen in sewing manuals as that for sewing braid to fabric only in this case the "fabric" was water soluble. Once complete, she sewed the braid down a second time. The lace was then soaked in water to remove the sabilizer, trimmed loose threads, and repaired a few small areas as needed with hand sewing. All of the sewing was done with Rebecca's 1912/1913 Willcox & Gibbs treadle. This experiment is a beautiful success!

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