I’m using the Season of Lace to finish up some of my projects though they don’t count for any of the raffels or prizes. Here are some blocking shots for the International Shawl. I will post again when it’s dry 
Blocking International Shawl By lacefreak, on July 21, 2008, 12:39 am18 comments to Blocking International Shawl |
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D R O O L!!! My god, that’s gorgeous!
Diane
Dear Diane,
Thank you! I like how it came out too and will post pictures of it now it’s dry.
Just looked at the Patterns section at Ravelry…where is this from? I’d venture to guess that at least the center is a Niebling or Niebling-inspired, no?
Diane
Dear Diane,
This shawl was cooked up by 4 knitters but I think fleegle started it all when she wanted to have us knit a shawl using 4 different sources for the lace.
The center is from the book “Knitted lace Designs Of The ‘Modern’ Mode” Book 2 by Naoko Ichida and is a German Niebling pattern. The book has a stitch key in English though the text is in Japanese.
The first set of leaves in the border section are from the book “Pitsilised Koekirjad “by Leili Reimann and this Estonian leaf pattern is on page 49, chart # 114
The second border pattern is from the book “Heirloom Knitting” by Sharon Miller and is a Shetland Lace pattern “Madeira and Diamond Chart” page 98.
The edging leaves are from the book “Knitted Lace” by Sonja Esbensen and Anna Rasmussen. This Danish lace edge is from a doily pattern called “Rosa” and the chart is on page 74. It knit as part of the shawl with a crochet cast off to finish.
All of these patterns have a “plain knit” row in between the pattern rows so when you reach the border patterns, you can increase to make the corners on those plain rows. When I finished the center pattern, I selected a single stitch in each corner of the pattern to define the corners and placed a marker on either side of those stitches. When I reached those markers, I added a yarn-over on either side of that stitch for the corner increases that you see in the shawl. As the corner stitches increased, I added more of the pattern to fill those blank spaces. No system, just eye-balled it. Hope that answers your question
This is BEAUtiful! Oh wow!
Thank you! Glad you like how it came out
egads but that’s gorgeous!
who designed it??
Dear Helen,
Thank you! It was cooked up between four of us. I think we had too much time over the Xmas holiday or something. Fleegle is the one I think who started it all and missalicefaye and yorksett and I all put in our two cents. If you look up at my reply to Diane, I give all the 4 books/sources for the patterns used.
Wow!!! That’s amazing.
Dear Meredith,
Thank you! It ended up nicer than I had imagined. It’s always a little tough to try to get different knitting styles to look good together.
Beautiful! You do such a great job knitting lace!
Dear Jan,
Thanks very much! I enjoy knitting lace and find it very relaxing and rewarding. It’s nice to be able to share it with others who enjoy it
I’d call this random joy, and you deserve a prize–what beautiful work! And isn’t the yardage knit since June 21st eligible for the most yards competition? And now I have to know–how is the very edge–the part that is pinned worked?
Dear Sylvia,
LOL! So glad you like it! This shawl was more than 50% done when this Season of Lace began so I don’t really feel it should count towards any type of prize but I’m happy to give eye candy to others. Besides, I have a nice doily I want to knit
As for this edge, it is based on a doily pattern so it uses a crochet cast-off. This is where you take groups of stitches and crochet them together, make a crochet chain and link it to the next set of stitches to be gathered. That is how the “points” of the leaves are created. Hope that explains it.
OMG!!! This has to be one of the most beautiful pieces of lace I have ever seen!
Excuse me while I pick my jaw back up, off of the floor.
Vicki
Dear Vicki,
Thank you! I’m very fond of Herbert Niebling’s work so this was a great opportunity to use one of his patterns as a shawl center. With 4 lace knitters picking out the lace for this project, we had a better than average chance of success:-)
What a very pretty shawl. Also love the color.
Dear Rosanne,
Thank you! I loved the color too. I had looked at past colorways that Carol (Black Bunny Fibers) had dyed and she was great about making me up the yarn to order. The entire shawl was made with one skein of her yarn with lots left over.