Revised Lace Design

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The AIA convention last week ironically made me incredibly busy while also affording me a lot of time to knit. So during many many hours of sessions, I did this test swatch of the lace patterns I've been revising for my design project.

I work out stitch patterns in crochet cotton, because it is a) cheap, and b) generic enough to let me see what I am doing. I usually ravel a swatch like this and re-use the cotton many times (I've been using the same bit of cotton for all six of the swatches I did for this project, for example). There's a value to saving a swatch of a yarn you actually use for the pattern, but very little to saving sketchy swatches of stitch patterns when you're working out what kind of decreases you want to use.

The first three lace patterns

I spent a lot of time working out how to get the patterns to flow into each other, and I think I mostly have it (there's one funky area there where a pattern starts out a bit too soon, but that's easy to fix). The drawback to doing this test in crochet cotton is that it looks terrible, even more so because I don't generally wash and block my swatches at this stage, but I'll live.

Anyway, I'm mostly done with the lace pattern designs for this except the really hard parts, which are the edgings. I've got some sketches of what I want for the neckline, and a whole chart plotted out for the bottom edging, but the exact mechanics of how to do it were a bit beyond me by the last day of the convention, so no progress there so far.

Once I get the edgings worked out, I will knit a couple of samples in the real yarn, so see what size needle I want. I'd like something a bit denser than this fabric, so I can see possibly having to buy some needles (this was done on a size 3). I have a good selection of smaller needles, but not a full gradation in the range I'm dealing with.

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This page contains a single entry by Ayse published on May 4, 2009 3:47 PM.

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