Lace knitting has always intimidated me...until I saw what was the perfect pattern for me to give it a whirl!
I had previously purchased a beautiful hank of Madeline Tosh 'Tosh Merino Light' in colorway 'Cathedral', I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do with it, but it looked so lonely in the store I decided it needed a good home so I just had to adopt it! Couldn't just leave it there. I drooled over it for a few weeks and late one night while trolling Ravelry for inspiration, I ran across a lace shawl pattern that I thought I could handle. (I've been trying to increase my knitting skills this year). As I said previously lace has always intimidated me, I look at it and think how beautiful, but all those YO's, ssk's etc. scared me! Many of the patterns I have seen have you knitting top down with short rows or bottom up with short rows and my brain just can't process all that, at any rate while trolling I came across some patterns by Mindy Wilkes, they were sooooo beautiful and in reading the description I saw one that was knit sideways, meaning you knit the lace as you knit the body of the shawl, well that got my attention, because that meant NO short rows! Yay me! I found something my brain could handle. I immediately thought of the 'Tosh Merino Light', could even see it finished in my minds eye.
I got stymied a few times with rows 5-6, but that was totally me forgetting a YO, nothing to do with the pattern at all, it was all me.(Luckily I have a great friend and knitting teacher to correct me and get me back on track. Many thanks Teresa Shankle). The result is beautiful, light and airy!
Pattern: Flower Moon by Mindy Wilkes
Yarn: Madeline Tosh 'Tosh Merino Light'
Color: Cathedral
Needle: 24" #6 Addi Turbo Click
Blocked using blocking wires(my first attempt)
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| Close up of the lace |
Knit on my friends!
