If the guy at SewLincs doesn't have one try Helen Howes.  She's in your neck of the woods too.

This evening's Repair Shop on BBC1 (available on iPlayer, series 13 episode 2.  starting 30 minutes in) featured an Irish dance dress worn by two year olds which was stained and had very fragile and tattered Clones lace around the collar and cuffs. 
Clones is pronounced Clo-ness.
The dress dated from 1980 but the lace came from her mother's dance dress in the 1950s.  As always they did a painstaking repair job and got the dress looking as good as new.
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But nit-picking me spotted a few inconsistensies:
The restorer said "it's referred to as lace but it's actually like a crochet"  It IS  crochet and if the definition of lace is a fine open fabric with small holes incorporated as part of the design then it IS lace.

They then briefly spoke about the history of Irish lace, their first image showed girls working with a crochet hook (correct for Clones) and the next one showed others doing what looks to me like needle run lace (embroidered net) which although made in Ireland was totally different to Clunes crochet lace, which itself was developed during the 1840s famine years a way to (relatively) quickly reproduce the intricate Venetian needlepoint laces.
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Here it is finished and on the bed in the spare room; Scrappy and Wonky.  I did find more than enough pink for rthe binding.

I'm now thinking that it needs a pillow sham, but the 8" blocks are not compatible with a standard pillow case size of 50cmx75cm which is about 20" x 30".  I wonder if I can find even more pink and do it all in crumb piecing?

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Thank you all very much for the tips. I do have a twin needle, but have never used it, so I’d be wary of using it on my first attempt. I’ll have a go with the zigzag type stitches and see how I get on.

If you need to cut 4 inches off the tee shirt you will have enough fabric to try out the various options and then use teh one you like best.

If the stitch you choose has width to it a single turn will be sufficient.  Either turn a very accurate hem and carefully sew over the edge of the fabric (not at all easy if you are stitching from the right side) or turn a more generous hem, stitch so that there is a small amount of fabric beyond the sewing and and then trim as close as you can to the stitching; use duckbill scissors if you have them and be careful not to cut into the stitching.

Well I managed to make a couple of metres too much for the scappy quilt!  I pressed all the seams open and the excess is just folded and tossed into the pink scraps box.  I don't press the fold down the centre, just fold it in half as I pin it to the edge of the trimmed quilt, sew at 1/4 inch, fold it around the edge and hand sew wherever the fold is to the line of machine stitching.

Thank you for the nice comments.

Amazing @BrendaP , what a lovely use of scraps. What do you plan to do with it when it’s finished?

It's big enough for a single bed so might get an occasional use.  THe main purpose was to get the sewing mojo back and to use up some scraps.

That looks good.   I do like striped bindings.

Toiles shoud always have a big seam allowance!

Is the waist seam sitting where your natural waist is?  Tie a length of narrow elastic around your waist (over the toile) and  move around to allow it to settle.  Does it want to be on the seam line?