Irish lace close-up

I know you love this :)

 Beautiful creation

by Vera Serdyuchenko

aka Alisa777

published in Duplet 161

 of course, this is designer's model

but you can try

 and as a bonus:

Chrysanthemum dress close-up

This gorgeous wedding gown made by Ukrainian designer Svetlana Bekreneva 

was published in Duplet magazine 149

The dress is fantastic, elegant and delicate

Designer has named the dress "Chrysanthemum"

I was so charmed by this dress that decided to show you these close-ups to encourage your creativity!

The dress has been made in free-form technique.

You can find motifs for this dress in Duplet 133 pages 14-15 and Duplet 146 pages 10-11

Enjoy!

Unusual Irish lace

Irish lace is not for dresses only.

Ukrainian desigher Olena Melnyk from Lviv proves this.

Post for newbies - inspirational!

You never know what you can do till you try.

She tried Irish crochet in 2009. She was absolutely new in the technique.
Now we all recognize her style: meet Galina Verten aka Assia!

This famous model is published in Zhurnal Mod 544 with patterns and description

Galina is Ukrainian who lives in Verona, Italy. Verona, as you all know, is a home of Shakespeare's Juliet. May be this is a key?

This model is available to buy for USD 2075 only :)

or you can make a replica yourself using charts from Duplet magazines 

The "secret" of her design is very accurate crochet. All nets are made with hooks 0.6 - 0.7 mm!!!

Flovers are embossed. Leaves are whimsical.

The dress design is always non-simmetric, it's important!

And of course, the game of colors:

and a shine of seed beads broidery:

This emerald dress is fantastic. It is for sale for USD 2670 and it's worth it!

Closer look. Designer shows ready dress:

The most boring job in Irish crochet is netting. Leaves and flowers are fairly easy to crochet, you can do it everywhere: watching TV, waiting your child on the basketball court, even sitting in a traffic jam :)

But the netting is always holy terror for Irish crochet newbies. It must be accurate, neat and wise. That is why Duplet published great Netting Special collection with zillion of patterns, charts, pictures, methods and master-classes on how to do and how to assemble everything together.

This release will be also interesting to filet crocheter - there are tons of unusual patterns with common stitches

and lot of more... on 160 pages