It’s a lump of…..
August 27th, 2007 at 11:16 pm (lace)
sea silk! The small ball on the right is what I had left over. I tried very hard to use everything I could from the two skeins of sea silk I had allocated to the project. Here it is stretched out just a tiny bit, before it’s wet.
I found some room in my seldom used guest room to stretch it out on the floor. I didn’t even have to move the bed (thankfully). I bought blocking wires at the hardware store (seen on the right), and spent about 15 minutes cleaning them with steel wool. When I went to block it, I realized there was no way I could fit those wires through the garter stitch edge without making it look weird. I used pins instead, and my daughter’s very colorful beach towel:
I didn’t even realize one side of the towel was striped! The blocking job isn’t perfectly straight, but that’s Ok. The lace really opens up! I hope it stays open once it’s dried.
I hope to model it once it’s dried and the ends woven in, but here’s the project info.
Pattern : Alpine Lace from Victorian Lace Today
Yarn: 2 skeins Sea Silk in Woodland colorway
Pattern mods: Removed one of the center rose pattern repeats. I cast on 103 stitches, increased 6 to the center, and did 40 repeats of the rose leaf pattern through the center. When I ran out of the first yarn, I left the ends dangling and counted the number of rose leaf patterns I had done up to that point. That let me estimate how many I could do with the second skein and still have enough left over to do the final border.
I love that this pattern has the border attached, and when you cast off ; you were done! Speaking of the cast off, I really liked the suspended bind off suggested in the pattern. I’ll be using that on other projects to help prevent an overly tight bind off.
Yarn Thing said,
August 28th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Totally Beautiful!!!!
Great Work!!
Marly
Jill said,
August 29th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
WOW! Beautiful!
Linda :-) :-) said,
September 1st, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Nice job.