Vintage Lace Collar

This interesting collar was born out of a sampler. I have saved lots of my gran’s samplers (I simply cannot part with them) and one negative thing about those is that they are all quite small. You who follow me for a long time know that grandma was a master of crocheted doilies and large-scale tablecloths, all made with extremely tiny hooks. So normally, all my samplers are tiny!

To make this collar copying the pattern from the sampler took me several unsuccessful attempts, but I eventually got it right. And when I did, well there was no stopping me! To be honest, I didn’t plan on making it a collar, I just wanted to make more and more of it until it reached a length where I thought “um.. a headband, maybe?” But it didn’t stick with me and several sections more, I knew it was destined to be a collar 🙂

We are having a photo-shoot tomorrow and I hope to make more beautiful pictures of it! Wish me luck it doesn’t rain!