I made this little square (8") for the spinning group I belong to, (Connacht Spinners and Weavers) We were asked to provide squares that represented, in some way, our area.
I happened to have the Torchon bobbin lace, made of one-ply wool. I had abandoned it during the making, because so many of the threads had broken. I quilted the 'mountain', that is very reminiscent of Croagh Patrick, our local conical mountain near Westport. The peat workings below, I hand spun from natural black fleece, and appliqued single and two ply strands to represent the peat diggings. The rest is free machine embroidery done in a zig-zag stitch to represent winter trees.
This little square is off to be put on display at the Knitting and Stitching Show in Dublin in November.
Some of the other squares were variously made using techiniques such as weaving, feltmaking, knitting, crochet, and rugmaking.
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