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a keira kilter state of mind

Patterns August 6, 2012 admin 1 Comment

keira is a sideways knit, dolman sleeve shrug made with cool-to-the-touch Real Pearl yarn. It’s almost like wearing a string of pearls around your arms and shoulders. The sleeves are knit in simple stockinette. The back, features a ripply, chevron lace pattern for a breezy elegance. keira is free with the purchase of the yarn required to make the project. just write “keira” in the comments box and we’ll send you a hardcopy of the pattern. there’s no need to add the pattern into your…

french traveling leaf

Lace June 5, 2012 admin Leave a comment

Autumn is over the long leaves that love us, And over the mice in the barley sheaves; Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us, And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves. – TS Eliot, The Falling of the Leaves

frost flowers in the spring

Lace April 30, 2012 admin Leave a comment

What is it, that, from their faces fresh as spring, such fair, fresh, alert, first-flower faces, like lavender crocuses, snowdrops, like Roman hyacinths, scyllas and yellow-haired hellebore, jonquils, dim anemones, even the sulphur auriculas, flowers that come first from the darkness, and feel cold to the touch, flowers scentless or pungent, ammoniacal almost – DH Lawrence, Frost Flowers (written in Cornwall at the end of the bitter winter of 1916-1917)

lace and the miter square

Lace September 19, 2011 admin Leave a comment

while fiddling around with a section of our penelope pattern, we ended up making a little swatch that turned out to be a lace version of the miter square. we’ve seen striped miter squares before but haven’t as yet come across a lacy concoction. . . it makes a nice little coaster by itself, and if ya whipped up a whole bunch, you might just end up with a really cool blanket!’

indian cross stitch

Lace, Slipped Stitches June 2, 2011 admin 1 Comment

Don’t throw the pa-ast away You might need it some rainy day Dreams can come true again When everything old is new again – Peter Allen, Everything Old is New Again lyrics THE LO-DOWN indian cross stitch is one of those stitches that we consider a minor miracle. it’s the same on both sides, works up quickly and is quite a bit easier to execute once you get the hang of things than it may seem. we’ve provided a step-by-step tutorial to illustrate the tricky…

tutorial: indian cross stitch

Tutorials June 2, 2011 admin 17 Comments

the stitch crossing rows (6 & 12) of indian cross stitch can be a bit sticky. we’re showing you in pictures in case our written instructions don’t make any sense!

two laces in one

Lace February 28, 2011 admin 1 Comment

The two oaks lean apart for light. They aren’t as strong as lone oaks but in a wind they give each other lee. — William Meredith, A Couple of Trees THE LO-DOWN gauge really matters when it comes to lace stitches. on the left, we knit a lacey leaf pattern with worsted weight camel yarn on US6 needles. the pattern ended up coming out like a really organic cable pattern rather than something full of holes and curves. on the right, we re-knit the…

hyacinth girl

Lace, Swatch Library January 26, 2011 admin Leave a comment

You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl. – TS Eliot, The Wasteland THE LO-DOWN winter is blasting outside our windows, and we’re dreaming of hyacinths, tulips and daffodils breaking through the ground come spring. until spring really does roll around, we’re keeping warm and knitting up hyacinth stitches on our needles. in our humble opinion, the hyacinth stitch ranks up there with things we put in the “instant gratification” category. it looks tremendously complicated, but it’s actually surprisingly…