Beige coloured hand knitting lies diagonally on a timber table - the knitting needle (a circ) and the yarn can be glimpsed in the top RH corner of the photo. There is a geometric lace panel - twisty diamonds - running up the middle. Flanked on both sides by an old fashioned, continuous lace stitch called ‘Fleurette’ in the Barbara Walker Treasuries - it is dainty and vaguely floral. When (if) this gets finished it’ll be a curtain. It is my own pattern and the yarn is 100% Hemp - lace wt held double. This is a WiP or UfO or PHD of many years standing … (WiP = work in progress - UFO = unfinished object - PHD = project half done)
A large lace shawl is shown on a mannequin in a garden. We see various plants & pot stands and white painted brick wall in the background. The mannequin has its back to us and one arm is held aloft so we can see more of the shawl. The shawl is hand knitted & lacey - it was one of those projects that ‘grew’. It started with the back panel - which is in a soft very pale grey / brown colour - this is a fluffy yarn (angora & mink) and that panel is basically from the pattern ‘Mediterranean Lace’ in the book ‘A Gathering of Lace’ I like the unusual shape of that shawl pattern - it has squares that fall to the front - I adapted the pattern there using a different lace stitch called Mermaid’s Mesh in the Barbara Walker Treasuries. The front squares are a soft mushroom brown colour - Cashmere lace wt from Belisa Cashmere. There is a large fancy lace border around all the shawl - it is leafy and that’s from the pattern. I used another mushroom brown lace wt yarn (sheep wool) from Touch Yarns. Then for the crochet cast-off I used a pink mauve alpaca yarn … This shawl was a stash buster - and it all kinda works … I love wearing this shawl - it’s a great shape that stays put on your shoulders.
A lace knitted shawl / scarf is pegged on a clothes line - some plants, a black bird cage and a timber fence can be seen in the background. I had treated myself to a boxed set of Manos del Uruguay’s ‘Fino’ yarn - 5 mini skeins, golden yellow, bronze orange, raspberry, royal purple, aubergine. (I did have to add more yarn … matched the colours) I adapted a Stephen West pattern ‘Starburst’ which has this wonderful shape and the cabled top edge (which I made in the gold yellow) But Mr West does not like lace … and I do !! So for my shawl I worked the wedge shaped panels & the border in various lace stitches … all sourced from the Barbara Walker ‘Treasuries of Knitting Patterns’ (they are my ‘knitting bibles’). The wedges radiate and create a long skinny end and a blunter star-like end … it results in a very wearable scarf / small shawl. If I throw the skinny end over one shoulder and plonk the starry end on top … it doesn’t slip about or need fussing with.
A mauve / lavender, loose lady’s top is shown on a mannequin standing in front of an aluminium fence and roller-door. I am holding one sleeve out - so you can see that it is slightly flared - wide at the wrist. This (like many of my selfish knitting projects) was WiP for a long time … 9yrs in this case) It is based on a Jaeger pattern ‘Cavendish’ in JM08. But I used a different lace stitch pattern. Mine is ‘Day Flower’ in Barbara Walker’s Treasury No: 2. It is a loose, hip length top, flared sleeves and the neckline has a stitched-on scarf effect that you knot loosely over the V neckline … quite elegant and easy to wear. I used Bendigo Woollen Mills 4pky cotton yarn the colour was called ‘Orchid’. The colour is slightly less pink than the photo shows
#Showmeyourknits the theme this week is Lace. I love lace is all its many forms. Don’t get to knit enough lace shawls. Here are 4 recent(ish) lace knits with more info in the Alt Texts #knitsky #handknit #knitlace
