Kitty is a bobbin lace maker and teacher of lace, living in Edinburgh. Her background is in traditional lacemaking, having learned on the English laces and then progressed to some of the Belgian laces.  Despite her love of Binche lace she believes that lace should not always be white and flat and in her contemporary work loves to use colour, texture and some unusual materials.  She has been known to make lace with used fiddle strings, telephone cabling and has even worked with leeks. Using whatever techniques will achieve the desired effect Kitty uses many traditional techniques but also freer use of the threads. She enjoys the challenge of contemporary lace. Working out how to achieve the effects and results she wants, particularly when it is to be 3D, she is conscious that the development of a contemporary piece involves a great deal of thinking and planning. One of her joys is helping students to develop their own contemporary lace working from their own inspirations and helping them to free their thinking and experiment. Scary but exciting!