I am currently knitting a lace pattern shawl in this ( Manos pattern
annabelle) in natural colour. I started a year or so ago and then had to take
on a burst as daughter announced she was expecting next March. The yarn knits
up a treat and the pattern is lovely unless you drop a stitch in
I was surprised to see it was just one variegated yarn, Titania. I thought you
had melded several shades together. Now, which pattern did you use for the
shawl? Sorry if anyone has asked that before.
Janice
This is the yarn and colour I used for the lace shawl:
eBay item number 180691166996
Hi Janice
Sending this via lace, as your server is blocking me.
I bought the pattern and wool from Pollyjane Yarns:
http://pollyjaneyarns.co.uk/shop/article_1108/Berry-River-Pattern-%28Torchon%29.html?shop_param=cid%3D118%26aid%3D1108%26
This link takes you straight to the pattern called
Hi All,
Treated my eldest daughter - lives in Windsor, Ontario - to some credit at a
local knitting store for her birthday and Christmas - and she is already
knitting a shawl. She asked me questions I could not answer about knitting
from a graph. Have worked from a graph on lots of occasions
Please could any replies come to the list? The charts for knitting
are a mystery to me as well.
Margery.
margerybu...@o2.co.uk in North Herts, UK
-Original Message-
From: owner-l...@arachne.com
Dear Mary Carey -
I have knitted for decades, although I admit that my obcession with bobbin lace
sharply cut into my knitting time for about ten years. But between the time I
stopped, and the time I started again, the knitting world had embraced graphs,
and after following them (or diagrams)
In my note to Mary Carey, I failed to mention that the single best tool I
have found to help with charts is a roll of sticky-tape made in see-through
colors which is like post it notes in that the tape can be pulled up and
repositioned numerous times. I always use a strip of this to inderline
Hi All
My 'ten-pennorth' (Old Yorkshire Saying) is that when you are 'reading
the chart' you have to imagine which way the yarn moves on each
row right to left on odd rows, and left to right on even rows,
just as Clay has stated. Now the way I always remember it is that you
always
I use one of the cross-stitch embroidery metal boards and magnets to follow
the pattern when using a graph. The magnet covers up the row above the one I
am working. This way I can see what stitches I should be working into what
stiches on the row below.
Sue
sueba...@comcast.net
Hello Mary and everyone
To add to the good advice so far - especially the row-reading, I use
replaceable arrow 'stickies' to mark the row I'm on, or the stitch block if
I'm interrupted during a row. It is also a good idea to get used to reading
one's knitting against the graph to eliminate that
I am first a knitter, having learned to knit at 5. Only began lacemaking at
the hoary age of 30. [no wisecracks please] With charts, I have found copying
the chart, making it large enough to be easy to read, is a great help. I then
use a pencil and LIGHTLY shade out the row Iâve finished.
I've only used charts for lace knitting and cables (fisherman knits). Many of
those patterns have no pattern work from the wrong side/return row, you just
knit where there are knit stitches and purl above each existing purl stitch.
Often lace charts that have just purls on the wrong side
Can't get on with them. When the instructions are written in long hand, such
as *k1, p1, psso** repeat from * to ** 9 times. I get that in my head
immediately and recite the instructions as I knit. Repeated sequences of
rows are also easy to learn. I've tried, but I can't do that with a visual
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