Some photos from my lace history

Finally got scanned some old photos of tablecloths I lace knitted in years 1986-1995.

The quality of photos is quite a poor but I am glad that after all I still have these photos made by those who liked and had laces from me.

This black-white photo is sample of round tablecloth made by me from very fine cotton thread, needles 2mm.

Several of them are by H. Niebling and E.Engeln - I always adored the art of these Great lacemasters!

Two photos below of extremely large tablecloth were one of my favourite patterns. I needed to clean the room from some furniture before I was able to block it :) That large it was;)

Here is some more of tablecloths:

Incredible large oval tablecloth.

Below is the two more large white tableclothes, same as my blue tablecloth by Erich Engeln pattern . It is also presented in my Ravelry project page with more photos.

And here is one kitchen curtain. It was my own design.

And finally - one rare photo of me :) Pictured in Finnish largest Handicraft Christmas Fair in Helsinki - it was beginning of 90'ies if I remember right. Photo seem to be taken at last day as on photo there is only 2 large laces left and some smaller ones. One I remember for sure is that the fee of place for this fair was quite expensive so I was able to buy only the 70 cm of table length :) I went there also some next years and remembering how very flattered I was by the fact that right at first day , at morning there was two ladies waiting me in hope I'll set up my outlet again so they get some laces made by me for their antics furniture. I have all the nice memories of that time .... What a pity I have no photo of me, knitting one of these larges during this Fair like a workshop, it was so large that I had the basket on the floor where the center of tablecloth was while I was knitting, many people stopped and wondered:)

The reason why I needed brake knitting the lace at middle of 90'ies was that my wrists got so sore and also another reason that I decided to go university and graduate in law, life then got too busy and new challenges and hobbies. I recently found my pattern maps and some middle way knitted laces and it made such a nostalgia! Well, I am back now - in LACE KNITTING, yes, but with some different projects I hope to blog here at future. So welcome to back!