Current lace - December 2008

I am currently working on two pieces of lace (although neither is moving much due to university final year work load), at the top is another collar of the same size as the previous one, and again drafted from a photocopy of an antique piece.
Piece of lace below collar is a relatively small edging which is a bit of light relief from the larger piece.
Hopefully they will both be finished when I graduate next summer.


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After working the large collar, (shown below), I bought a dress to wear it on. However it was very low at the front, and I decided that I needed a piece of lace to wear with it.
I designed this one from the collar to accompany it on my dress.

Photographs of large collar.

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I drafted the pattern from photocopy of the antique piece of lace, which was originally made around 1911, and was a design by Harry Armstrong. I changed the nine pin edge as well, and put a more modern edge on it.
This was my entry into the Hilda Marston Trophy competition at the Nottinghamshire Bobbin Lace Society summer Lace day, 2008.

My winning entry into the Hilda Marston competition 2008, me wearing it!

Hilda Marston winners 2008, Nottinghamshire Bobbin Lace Society, summer lace day, June 2008.
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Me showing the lace, to give the impression of size, after winning a prize in the Hilda Marston Trophy competition, at the Nottinghamshire Bobbin Lace Society summer lace day, 2007.
Close up and details of the lace shown below

Bedfordshire Lace Collar

My first large Bedfordshire collar, taken from the Northamptonshire museum pattern book. Some very interesting shapes to work, using holes in cloth techniques.
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Bedfordshire lace Edging - Daisy design

This Bedfordshire lace edging began life as the opaque glass in a shower block window on a caravan site, where we were living for 3 months whilst waiting for a new house to be finished. I was looking for design inspiration and found it in the showers! I designed and worked it in the three months we were there.

Bedfordshire Edging.
An interesting one, with lots of leaves.

The following year, after the Bedfordshire Christmas tree I was working on a lot of Bucks Point lace, and again set my teacher the challenge of designing me another Christmas tree. This is the Bucks point version, before the assembly into the 3D tree. Another interesting challenge to work.

This pattern was a challenge issued by me to my teacher, as her class were all working tape lace christmas trees. I work most of the time with Bedfordshire lace and wanted a Christmas tree in this type of lace, and so she designed one for me. Then the challenge was passed back to me to work out how to work it, and this was the result.
The pattern is worked twice, stiffened and folded to right angles and then when dry joined together to form the 3D tree.