I recently finished a one-hank adaptation of Marianne Kinzel's 'Rose of England' pattern. So much emotional, physical, psychic stuff came up during the process of knitting and what followed, I decided I'd like to blog about my knitting. (Above is a photo of me wearing the piece as a headscarf at my niece's wedding.)
I think it really came out lovely. It's knit of now-discontinued Grignasco Regina, a 100% merino laceweight that I purchased some years ago. After I got my first skein of it, and it was noted at Patternworks that it would be discontinued, I bought up as much as I could. I still have three hanks of a taupe color and a couple of other single hanks that I'm looking forward to using.
Meanwhile, I'm currently knitting a stole using an Ogee pattern from one of Mary Thomas's books. The yarn is Shetland 2-ply in kind of a mint green. Two or three years ago I had knit a piece that had seven repeats across and was 12 repeats long. I designed a transition center pattern and knit a few rows of that. Now, I've started a second piece that, once it's twelve repeats long, I'll merge it into the center, and it will be done. Photos later.
1 comment:
It's a stunning piece of work. You 'shake hands' with lace very well.
I look forward to seeing more and more about lace on your blog.
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