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.