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If you are interested in any of my books or patterns please email me at lhalley@bytemeusa.com   to let me know your intentions, giving me your name and your email address.  To download any of my books or patterns, please make a deposit to my PayPal account using the email address lhalley@bytemeusa.com   Paypal.com  accepts major credit cards as payment sources.  After I have verified that the payment has been received I will email you (using the email address that you give me) with passwords which will allow the download to work.  The passwords will only be useable for a limited time of 2 days.  Please respect my copyright.  These books and patterns are for your personal use, not for sharing or commercial use, nor for posting on the internet.  I really do need the income from these patterns and books to pay my internet expenses.

My bobbin lace books and patterns for sale

Individual patterns:

     F1  Floral Hankie Corner #1.   $3.99  Use Honiton or Duchesse working methods.

     F2 Floral Part Lace. $3.99   Use Honiton or Duchesse working methods.

     F3  Floral Hankie Corner #3    $3.99.  Use Honiton or Duchesse working methods.

       F4 Asymmetrical Floral Doily  $3.99  I used Honiton working methods, but larger in scale.  Duchesse would also work.

     Neck Lace #4  $3.99.  Part Lace, uses Honiton or Duchesse working methods (whichever you are comfortable with).

     Torchon R29  $3.99.  Torchon pattern for #60-#70 Cordonnet or similar weight.  Full instructions on how to achieve color variations.  File is 435 kb.

       Tape Lace T22 $7.99.  Delicate tape lace edging in 4 basic patterns with several variants: the square pattern you see here, a handkerchief edging in 3 variants, the corner design by itself as separate motif or as a hankie corner, a round collar and a V neck collar.  File is 1.5 mb.  See here for the corner design as a separate motif.  This pattern is very easy to make.  You only need to know turning stitch (how to go around curves in tape lace) and long sewings.

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Torchon Bobbin Lace Lessons, by Lorelei Halley
 These are some sample lace photographs and diagrams from my recent book. 

Based on my lesson series for private students, it is vastly improved and updated with several hundred new sequential diagrams and photos. Each page has 3 or 4 diagrams & photos, very little text. Contains 17 patterns, each of which introduces only one new technique. The lesson series uses color as part of the teaching process, because it is easier to understand what is happening when your threads are different colors. The many sequential diagrams, especially in the early stages, are intended for the student trying to learn alone without a teacher. Diagrams look very much like what you have on your pillow and are much easier to follow than verbal instructions. Being able to picture what is supposed to happen is 90% of the battle.  Photos and diagrams are in full color. Above are a few sample lace photos and diagrams (reduced in size). 157 pages.  2001.  My book will be available in 2 forms: 1. spiral bound and the pages printed on both sides, 2. as pdf download, broken into 2 parts.

TORCHON BOBBIN LACE LESSONS as download in two parts (divided into 2 parts to make downloads more manageable for those with slow internet service).  The book is strictly progressive.  Each new chapter assumes that you have mastered all the parts that have preceded it, and each new element is explained in detail only the first time it occurs.  The chapter which contains all the master patterns is at the end of Part 2.   So don’t buy just one part.  The early chapters are long because each element is described and diagrammed in great detail.

TORCHON BOBBIN LACE LESSONS, PART ONE     $9.99    4.7mb        torchonlessons1

TORCHON BOBBIN LACE LESSONS, PART TWO     $9.99    4.7mb       torchonlessons2

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Torchon Bobbin Lace Patterns, by Lorelei Halley.  My book of 43 torchon patterns.

Torchon Bobbin Lace Patterns    See here for photos of some of the designs. Almost no text.  All explanation is in diagrams, mostly using the international color coding system. Very little text, some suggestions for hanging on.  Assumes the reader knows how to make torchon. The 43 patterns in this book are original, with a few exceptions ( 43 & 44).    Originally I had created a number of more complex designs and then thought that the book might not appeal to relative beginners who were part way through a torchon class, but had not mastered all of torchon.  That is when I decided to deliberately create a number of simple patterns which would contain only one or two torchon elements.   I also tried to include patterns using each of the major ground pinning patterns  (torchon, honeycomb, rose/virgin) with each of the most common edge motifs.   As it stands now, the book is about 75 percent simpler designs, with the remainder containing many torchon elements.

Printed paper copy:  154 pages, in color, printed both sides, comb bound  $42.00 includes shipping within the USA.  Foreign shipping at cost.  Contact me first by email so I can calculate shipping cost.

Downloadable in 2 parts:  Not ready yet.  Will cost less.  I need to transform the text from Lotus Wordpro to Microsoft Word before making it a pdf file.  May take a few weeks. 

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More books and patterns will be added as I get them ready and into the proper form.

 Today's date:  1/28/10         Contact me at    lhalley@bytemeusa.com   for questions or comments.