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Traditional Carrickmacross Lace is a form of lace that may be described as decorated net. The lace is made up of netting, muslin and needle lace. It was

first introduced into Ireland in about 1820. It was taught to the local women so that they could earn some extra money.

When made by hand, this type of lace is a combination of applique and needle-point lace. Today, although expensive to purchase, is widely used on bridal

gowns, lingerie and clothing.

With the Machine Carrickmacross Lace designs and this tutorial, you will be able to create your very own Carrickmacross Lace which can be used on many items of clothing and home décor. To create pieces of Carrickmacross fabric lace, you will stitch out each design using the method in this tutorial and use

placement to place individual designs across the netting.

It is important to use a pair of round tipped scissors for this method. The round tip of the scissors prevents cutting the netting when trimming back the muslin fabric. I found using children’s nail scissors with the round tips are per-

fect for this job.

Materials

Soft netting (I used a medium sized netting very similar to English Cotton Net-

ting)

Muslin fabric

Water Soluble Stabi-lizer

Temporary Adhesive Glue

Scissors with a round tip

(I used children’s nail scissors)

Machine Carrickmacross Lace

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Lets get started!

First hoop 2 layers of water soluble stabilizer. Load a Machine Carrickmacross design to your machine. The design consists of 4 color stops. I used white thread throughout the design. The thread I used was a Rayon

thread with regular bobbin thread in the bobbin case. I also used a 75/11 needle. Depending on the project you are doing, mark where you want the design to go on the netting. I like to use a trick marker for this as it fades out. Mark the netting. Spray the stabilizer with temporary adhesive spray and place the marked area of the netting onto the stabilizer. Press firmly with your hands. I like to pin the

fabric in the corners of the hoop.

Stitch the first color. This will mark where to place the muslin fabric. Spray the netting with temporary ad-hesive spray. Cut a piece of muslin fabric to cover the stitched area. Hand press the muslin in place. Stitch

the next color. Trim the muslin from around the stitching.

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Stitch the next color. This will be the net and muslin tack down. This outline areas of netting that needs to be removed as needle lace will go into the spaces. You will need a pair of sharp pointed scissors to cut out

the pieces of netting have been marked.

We are almost done. All that is left is to stitch the remainder of the design. How easy wasn’t that?