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The Art of Knitted Lace!

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Knitted Lace! Whether it’s a gossamer weight shawl delicately draped over a long evening gown, a sturdy shawl to keep you warm, gloves or sock for either utilitarian or decorative purposes, knitted lace evokes thoughts of romance and far away places.

While, I’m not so much the decorative, long evening gown type of gal (come on, really?) I can totally relate to warm aran socks with a lace pattern, fingerless mitts or a nice sturdy shawl to help chase away the Northern Michigan weather. And this book has it all and then some, in between!

Dozens of patterns and complete lace how-to, really, if you can knit, you can knit lace. It’s just knitting, purling, decreasing and increasing.

This book also includes a thorough explanation of pattern and chart reading, defines special terms, explains the best ways to block, and offers guidance on choosing the right yarn and needles. This collection of patterns, from authors including Clara Parkes, Annie Modesitt, Phoenix Bess, Berta Karapetyan, Melissa Matthay and Lisa Lloyd will have you knitting lace in no time.

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A Shawlette with a Ton of Design Options

There’s a lot to like about the Eloise Bandana from Katryn Seeburger. This cute little colorwork triangle can be worked as a bandana or kerchief size or a bigger shawlette. 

It’s worked in two colors of fingering weight yarn so you can use whatever yarn you have in your stash and just make it as big as you can (since it is worked from the bottom up). 

You can see the two sizes from the photo, and also two colorwork options: strawberries and lily of the valley. 

But that’s not all the choices you have. In fact, there are 34 different charts you can choose from to knit onto your project. Some of the options include happy faces, a lobster, a pumpkin, a snail and a butterfly. There are cherries, peaches, tomatoes and radishes.

There’s even a blank square you can use to draw your own little design if you want to use something else. Or keep it blank and make it a plain checkerboard design. 

And while both of these shawls use the same icons throughout, you could also use different designs throughout if you want. Say a fall version with a bat, pumpkin, leaf and acorn, or a summer beach theme with sailboat, fish, lobster and a bird? I keep suggesting four different icons because the larger size has four rows of squares, but the smaller has three, so you could do stripes of the same icon or alternate a couple of different ones, whatever you like. 

Look through the finished projects on the Ravelry project page to see lots of different options, from rows to individual icons. There are also some projects that are smaller than the suggested size to make a smaller bandana. You could also keep going a make a bigger shawl working increases in the same way as you have been going. 

Check out all the details and grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry. 

[Photo: Katryn Seeburger]