It's getting cold here so I've taken up knitting again, and rather than sticking to boring old garter stitch I thought I'd try lace knitting.I found this gorgeous yarn in 'vintage hues' down at the local Kmart and bought 5 rolls; isn't it beautiful? The lace pattern would probably stand out more in solid-coloured yarn but it turned out to be a good choice because it disguises all the mistakes I made as I was learning how to slip stitches, knit two together, yarn forward and pass slipped stitch over!
Just don't look too closely at the part that's draped over my shoulder - that's where I started from, and after unravelling it three times I just forged ahead and let the mistakes add to the 'uniqueness' of the piece. I figured it out in the end, with the help of KnittingHelp.com, a very handy knitting website with free videos of every stitch you could possibly need to know.
I'm so impressed with the result I'm going to knit a lace wrap next, although it's 121 stitches wide and I started last night, so it could be next winter before I get to wear it!
6 comments:
ohhh, it's gorgeous!
i loooove the colours! beautiful!!!
and i'm proud of you for learning lace knitting! it looks difficult!
you could always try crocheting for fast results, it'd make a lacy shawl in no time!
'tis better than anything i would ever do! Its really pretty!!!
thanks anouk and lisbeth!
Lace knitting isn't that difficult once you get the hang of the stitches - I'm sure you could figure it out easy. Probably does require a bit more patience than crocheting though!
I tried making crochet flowers the other day, but they didn't turn out quite like I imagined - do you have any good patterns?
yeah, i havn't tried anything beyond knit and pearl, i've looked them up on knitting sites and got impatient with the instructions. hehehee
same goes for flower patterns, you can find them on youtube but i don't have the patients to sit and watch them. I just made it up!
basically you crochet a circle and then crochet up and across for each petal, one at a time.
:)
Thanks anouk, I'll try that... I looked up crochet flowers on youTube too and the only demo I found was WAY too fast in the tricky bits, and she kept covering the stitches with her thumb! We were probably looking at the same one.
Who would have thought?
Such a pretty scarf, Eileen!
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