Knitted Wedding Dresses – Haapsalu Lace Center

Knitted Wedding Dresses An elegant wedding dress is one of the things that helps to accentuate how beautiful the bride is. To me knitted wedding dresses are the most elegant ones of them all. I have not yet had the honor to knit one but luckily there are plenty of other talented knitters who have.

At the end of August I went to Haapsalu to the 4th Haapsalu Lace Day. I wrote about the day itself in my last post but besides the things I talked about there I also took some pictures of the lace dresses in Haapsalu Lace Center. I do have to apologize that the quality is not the best, my camera is pretty old and I don’t know that much about taking pictures. But I do hope that the beauty, elegance and craftsmanship of these lace dresses will be apparent nevertheless

The dress on the left is knitted by Ege Paju, to see the whole dress scroll down a bit.

This first dress is knitted by Marge Heeringas

Knitted Wedding Dresses

The dress in the center is knitted by Helmi Mändla and the bolero is knitted by Aime Edasi

Knitted Wedding Dresses

Knitted Wedding Dresses

And here is the full dress knitted by Ege Paju

Knitted Wedding Dresses

This beautiful dress suitable for flower girls was knitted by Merle Saulep

Knitted Wedding Dresses

The red dress was knitted by Pille Källe

Knitted Wedding Dresses

This last lace wedding dress was knitted by Ester-Vileida Viilup in 1974. At first the dress was white with pink underdress, but after the wedding it was colored so that it could be used for other occasions.

Knitted Wedding Dresses

As you could see from the pictures there is lot more to see in the Haapsalu Lace Centre than knitted wedding dresses. I do have some more pictures that I want to show you in my next post but even after these there is still a lot to see and they constantly add new items to their exhibition. So if you like lace and visit Estonia then you definately have to go there!

Summer dress knitting

Summer Dress - Artanis Wedding Lace - 8

Have you heard of the saying “the shoemaker’s children always go barefoot”, this was the situation where I found myself at the beginning of summer. I didn’t have any summer dresses to wear! As I have always dreamed about knitting a lace wedding dress in the future this presented me with the perfect opportunity to get some hands on experience in knitting dresses.

There were two things to decide, the yarn and the pattern. As it was going to be a summer dress then I didn’t choose a woolen yarn but Scheepjes’ Soft Fun Denim that has 60% cotton and 40% acrylic, 50g – 140m. The color was difficult to choose because so many of them were beautiful, but I finally decided on kind of reddish pink. While looking for summer dress patterns I found myself on the Drops design page and fell in love with the Summer Feeling Dress and it seemed to be a good dress for a first dress to knit. I was a bit worried that the 500g of yarn I had wasn’t going to be enough but in the end it took exactly 350g of yarn so the dress is also light to wear.

I took pictures after I knitted every 50 grams so you can see how the dress took shape. This was also the first time for me to start from the shoulders and knit down from there so I was pretty exited to see how the tress would end up. And I’m very happy with it and will wear it a lot this summer (if the weather permits it). The only problem is that when I’m wearing it then it is very hard to take pictures of the dress. My husband took about twenty and only a few were normal, on all the others there was an optical illusion where there appeared to be lines on the dress that are not actually there (maybe you have seen sometimes roof tiles can do the same on a picture).

And here are the pictures of my new summer dress:

Summer dress - Artanis Wedding Lace

Summer dress - Artanis Wedding Lace

Summer dress - Artanis Wedding Lace

Summer dress - Artanis Wedding Lace

Summer dress - Artanis Wedding Lace

Summer Dress - Artanis Wedding Lace - 9

Summer Dress - Artanis Wedding Lace - 10