For newbies and others, just because a design says it is lace doesn't mean it is FSL. If you are unsure check with the digitiser first not do my trick...

I purchased a lace border design from oesd. Thinking it was FSL I diligilently embroidered 15 of the design out onto wss. Each taking 25 mins to embroider. I didn't want to waste time washing wss from just one or two at a time as I wanted them to all have the same stiffness once dry so I waited until I embroidered all 15. Well they all fell apart! I have since checked with oesd to find it was not a FSL design. I could have saved myself so much time, thread and stabiliser if I had checked first.

Am off to try a test stitch of this design on some organza....


UPDATE: I have stitched the design successfully on some crystal organza. The shimmer in the organza adds some sparkle to the crowns too. The organza was fraying around the edges and I used polyester thread to embroider them so I was able to seal the fraying edges with a candle flame.