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2.5 Knitted Ruching 26 Jun 2011 | 02:45 pm
I associate "ruching" with a trim of gathered ruffles or pleats. Here the term seems to be used simply as an alternative for "edging." The 4-row repeat produces a medium-wide garter stitch border wit...
2.4 Star Stitch for a Shawl 7 May 2011 | 02:32 pm
I am downright baffled by the name of this pattern. Polka Dot Lace, yes. Checkerboard Lace, sure. Even Windowpane Plaid. But Star? I just don't see it. Unsuitable nomenclature aside, this stockingnet...
2.3 Knitted Skirt 19 Mar 2011 | 08:38 am
Like our Victorian knitter's mitten pattern, Knitted Skirt is not sufficiently coherent to derive step-by-step instructions for a complete project. The entry, however, has a number of interesting elem...
2.2 Lace for Either Thread or Yarn 2 Mar 2011 | 04:37 am
A simple saw-tooth lace with a row of faggoting along the upper edge is given a bold look by the line of large eyelets cascading down to each point. Double yarn overs increase the stitch count by two ...
2.1 Lace 19 Feb 2011 | 01:10 pm
Astute readers will note that this is not in fact the mittens promised as the first pattern from our second knitting notebook. When I sat down to transcribe the "Directions for a Mitten," I discovered...
An Invitation 22 Nov 2010 | 09:17 am
Several readers have mentioned incorporating the Victorian knitted lace patterns from this blog in their own projects-- selecting one of the sample book's edgings to border a shawl, for example. I thi...
Son of The Project 31 Aug 2010 | 01:12 pm
When I announced two years ago that I had set up this blog to share my 1884 knitted lace sample book project with knitters around the world, my brother-in-law had just one question: What are you going...
40. New Fancy Work 22 Aug 2010 | 12:56 pm
At the conclusion of my last post, way back at the beginning of the year, I teased that the final pattern in the 1884 knitted lace sample book would be "worth the wait." Little did I know just how lon...
39. Sea Shell Lace 15 Jan 2010 | 06:18 pm
At the end of the last pattern I referred to this next post as "Loose Ends" because I anticipated presenting Sea Shell Lace as an incomplete pattern. I simply could not make heads nor tails of the fin...
38. Untitled Edging 2 Jan 2010 | 09:24 am
This is another pattern our Victorian knitter copied down in her sample book without including its name. Two rows of ladder eyelets run along the top. Slightly overlapping raised leaves, worked in sto...
