Fun with Lace | Manu

Dear Christine, thank you! Once again this challenge was a journey and so much fun.

•The techniques:

1. Edible sugar lace on cookies

2. Eyelet lace and intricate piping

3. Needlepoint and cross-stich done using the SugarVeil needlepoint mat to make the grid

•The inspiration:
My two grandmothers (one of them 95 and still with us) and my mother have the hobby of sewing. As a kid I remember going to a small shop that sold everything for sewing, knitting, crochet. . . They sold fabrics, garnments, trim, ornaments, beads. . . anything. There was always to wait, which usually is not fun for a kid (me at that time), but the fun was watching all the different material that was shown and sold to the customers in line before us, and to learn how to use it. Being the personal taylor of my Barbie doll, and having the images of the mice sewing Cinderella's gown printed in my mind, I was always very interested and inspired!

I tried to recreate the image of the beautiful caos that I was used to see on the counter of that shop.

•Credits:
Thank you, @Julia M. Usher for your inspiring 3D projects, videos and "windows" on your classes around the world. Without the foundations I got from that material I couldn't have been able to cookie-fy my idea (which was not easy anyway).

Julia's technique of making cylinder cookies
allowed me to make the spools and the curved shaped cookies (ribbons). I used her distressed technique on the edges of some of the spools. I also cut the wafer paper with craft punches to make a different kind of trim borders* and I used the SugarVeil needlepoint on curved cookies, like she does in many of her projects.

*(wafer paper trim borders are out of the request of the challenge though, so please just consider it part of the staging)

WOW, Manu! You know I love everything you do, even the simplest things you make them look so special, but this is UNIQUE!!! This is just brill and a great job! Look at that curve on one of the cookies! LOVE, love, love! And happy Woman's Day!

carouselselsel posted:

WOW, Manu! You know I love everything you do, even the simplest things you make them look so special, but this is UNIQUE!!! This is just brill and a great job! Look at that curve on one of the cookies! LOVE, love, love! And happy Woman's Day!

Thank you so much, dear Zara, for the kind words. So glad you like them. Happy Woman's Day!

Wow!!! Only you could have this amazing idea, I love every single detail of this set! Gorgeous 

Brilliant

Wonderful! So creative. 

What a great idea and so well done! And what an excellent use of the @SugarVeil needlepoint mat! I'm sure Michele will be impressed!

Thanks too for the shout-out! Always glad to see my videos put to use!

Evelindecora posted:

Wow!!! Only you could have this amazing idea, I love every single detail of this set! Gorgeous 

Thank you, Evelin. I made a little "Merceria" (the Italian for the shop that sells this kind of things).

Julia M. Usher posted:

What a great idea and so well done!

Thank you so much, Julia, I really appreciate that. And thank you again for all the knowledge you share for our fruition

Valerie J posted:

Brilliant

Thank you, Valerie.

Lori Nicolsen posted:

Wonderful! So creative. 

Thank you, Lori.

What an amazing set and so creative! Me --> speechless again...

Laegwen posted:

What an amazing set and so creative! Me --> speechless again...

Thank you, Leoni!

Manu, I love this set!! So creative!!

Fabulous! Really outstanding.  

Alison Friedli posted:

Manu, I love this set!! So creative!!

Thank you, Alison!

Tina At Sugar Wishes posted:

Fabulous! Really outstanding.  

Thank you, Tina!

Wowwww.i have to try...I loveeee them.

They are amazing Manu. really beautiful idea

Add another Wow! Manu I have been looking at ribbons all week for a sewing project I'm doing right now . I have seen so many that I am starting to dream about them. Now BANG!!  I'm SEEING spools of ribbon  here on cookie connection. I'm not sure if I'm going nuts! Your ribbons are the pretties  I have seen so far. So if I'm not dreaming and I'm Not going nuts, and this is actually reality. What an awesome idea and a fantastic P.B.P.C. 

Marimen posted:

Wowwww.i have to try...I loveeee them.

They are amazing Manu. really beautiful idea

Thank you! I thought it was a good way to show a sample of each lace. But then the work before getting to decorate the lace was quite a bit! I had to learn how to bake curved cookies, how to flood curved cookie... to fill the edible lace grid... a great learning experience like every PBP Challenge!

Anne Marie Adams posted:

Add another Wow! Manu I have been looking at ribbons all week for a sewing project I'm doing right now . I have seen so many that I am starting to dream about them. Now BANG!!  I'm SEEING spools of ribbon  here on cookie connection. I'm not sure if I'm going nuts! Your ribbons are the pretties  I have seen so far. So if I'm not dreaming and I'm Not going nuts, and this is actually reality. What an awesome idea and a fantastic P.B.P.C. 

Thank you, Anne! It is always fun taking part to Christine Challenges. Looking at the picture of what I had in mind posted on the site and reading all the positive comments is really rewarding.

So creative , beautifully finished , love it xx

Little-Fancies posted:

So creative , beautifully finished , love it xx

Thank you, Lisa

What an awesome idea Manu!!  love each and every one of these. You did such a beautiful job on all these cookies. Always love your work♡♡

Świetny pomysł, cudne wykonanie

Cookies Fantastique by Carol posted:

What an awesome idea Manu!!  love each and every one of these. You did such a beautiful job on all these cookies. Always love your work♡♡

Thank you so much, Carol❤

Teresa Pękul posted:

Świetny pomysł, cudne wykonanie

Thank you, Teresa!

Wow!! Beautiful...

Dolce Flo posted:

Wow!! Beautiful...

Grazie Flo!

These are amazing!  I just love it when someone thinks outside of the box and comes up with an entirely new idea!  Wonderful!

This is just amazing! Great idea!

Manu, wonderful!!!  Very unique, very different and very beautiful.   I love the one with "Manu" needlepoint.   You nailed this challenge. 

Cookie Me This ~ Heidi posted:

These are amazing!  I just love it when someone thinks outside of the box and comes up with an entirely new idea!  Wonderful!

Thank you, Heidi, that's a nice compliment. 

mintlemonade (cookie crumbs) posted:

This is just amazing! Great idea!

Thank you, Noriko, I am still in awe after looking at your beautiful set!

Ryoko ~Cookie Ave. posted:

Manu, wonderful!!!  Very unique, very different and very beautiful.   I love the one with "Manu" needlepoint.   You nailed this challenge. 

Thank you, Ryoko! Still figuring out the right consistency, and though it is not easy handpiping dots on a curved surface I am very happy for the outcome. The lila color of the lettering "Manu" is the same of the background of the one with the white lettering "cookies". It is funny how the white- lila contrast is so different in both cookies.

Manu posted:

Ryoko ~Cookie Ave. posted:

Manu, wonderful!!!  Very unique, very different and very beautiful.   I love the one with "Manu" needlepoint.   You nailed this challenge. 

Thank you, Ryoko! Still figuring out the right consistency, and though it is not easy handpiping dots on a curved surface I am very happy for the outcome. The lila color of the lettering "Manu" is the same of the background of the one with the white lettering "cookies". It is funny how the white- lila contrast is so different in both cookies.

I really really wish you lived next door, at least in next town so I could see how you make those 3D cookies and how you flood icing and how you design on curved surface.  

What a great idea! it is beautiful! 

Piernikowe Serca posted:

What a great idea! it is beautiful! 

Thank you!

Una meraviglia! Idea splendida, splendida realizzazione! Che dirti, Manu: grazie!

Sono a bocca aperta! Brava Manu... sei geniale, questo set è unico, straordinario! 

I'm open mouthed! Bravo Manu... you're brilliant, your set is unique, awesome! 

Gina's Cake posted:

Una meraviglia! Idea splendida, splendida realizzazione! Che dirti, Manu: grazie!

Grazie a te Katuscya per lo splendido feedback.

Magadiuz posted:

Sono a bocca aperta! Brava Manu... sei geniale, questo set è unico, straordinario! 

I'm open mouthed! Bravo Manu... you're brilliant, your set is unique, awesome! 

Grazie cara Ina! ❤

Wow, Manu! This is definitely one of the most creative techniques for lace out there! Absolutely brilliant!!!

Sweet Prodigy posted:

Wow, Manu! This is definitely one of the most creative techniques for lace out there! Absolutely brilliant!!!

Thank you, Christine! I have been thinking so much of you while filling the grids!!! And I am so glad I didn't have to pipe the grids! I appreciate even more your work, if that it is possible!

Wow Manu, stunning work so great idea!

Manu, this is incredible! You are amazingly creative and talented! Love this so much. Brava!

Libuša Bartošová posted:

Wow Manu, stunning work so great idea!

Thank you!

Chu-A-Cookie posted:

Manu, this is incredible! You are amazingly creative and talented! Love this so much. Brava!

Thank you, Arlene! ❤