I haven't made the time to sit down with my dye book and work out smaller measurements of dye as yet but I wanted to play with lace and the different fabric pencils etc I had so here are the results.
The final picture is of the Paint sticks lace hand washed, the single motif came out well but the lace piece also turned out. It depends on what you are looking for. (for some reason I couldn't type next to the picture this time - go figure ;) )
In all of the trials the lace kept a soft hand which I was pleased about, especially if you want to use the pieces for Crazy Quilting or similar
I hope to try other ways to colour lace and will keep you updated
I hope you enjoyed this post and that it may encourage you to also play with these and other techniques, if you do please let me know how it went
Small motifs cotton, larger piece is a shop brought synthetic type
Left a few days ironed and hand washed, colour faded but not too much 
Inktense pencils easier to use than the other techniques as you can do more detailed colouring
Left a few days to dry, and then painted with 100% Aloe Vera gel, left to dry again, 
Hand washed, came out pale but I loved the rose 
Harder to paint, very messy but fun, left for a few days and then ironed
