Seasons of Lace

I knit lace all the time anyway so I posted a picture of my progress on my “International Shawl” at the Flicker site as a warm up.  This was the brain child of fleegle who got bored one day and suggested to four of us lace knitters to try and knit a shawl using 4 different types of lace patterns from four different countries. The center is a Niebling pattern from, Knitted Lace Designs Of The “Modern” Mode Book 2 by Naoko Ichida.  It’s called Chrysantheme.  The second lace pattern is a leaf design from an Estonian lace book called Pitsilised Koekirjad by Leili Reimann (# 114 page 49). I’m almost done with the leaves and then each knitter is supposed to come up with the last two patterns.  I think I’m going to try the Madeira and Diamond pattern from Sharon Millers Heirloom Knitting book (page 98) and then end with a different leaf edging from a Danish book called Knitted Lace by Sonja Esbensen and Anna Rasmussen ( page 73).   In addition to this warm-up lace, I went ahead and cast on a simple lace scarf that is also a free pattern on Ravelry.  The pattern is called “The Saigon Scarf” and is by Badcatdesigns.  I am knitting this on US 3 needles and using a handspun lace weight 2 ply yarn that I spun from batts I purchased from Spritely Goods. The fiber is a combination of merino/alpaca/firestar and angelina fibers for glitter in a colorway called Palo Verde.  I have posted pictures on the Flicker site of this as well. 

Tags: lace, scarf