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Winterlude Pattern
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Intermediate
Category:
KnittingType:
AccessoryFit:
WomenItem:
ShawlSkill Level:
Intermediate
Basic Skills Necessary:
- Basic lace knitting Skills
Pattern Description:
Winterlude was designed and knit for the 2010 Winter Knitting Olympics. Worked from the bottom up with increases on each edge this triangluar shape lace shawl incorporates BOTH lace and cables on a ribbed base. As with all my designs the pattern is both charted and written out. The "really cool loopy i-cord" edging I devised for this piece can be worked with, or without, beads.
Gauge:
23 sts and 28 rows=4 inches in st st (before blocking)
Sizing / Finished Measurements:
- 60 inches across top x 24 inches deep (after blocking)
Materials:
- Schaefer Yarn Audrey (50% silk/ 50% wool, 4 oz [112 g] / 700 yds [640 m]) or other fingering weight yarn; approx 700 yards
- Size 7 [4.5 mm] 32" circular needles, or size needed to obtain gauge
- Two Size 7 [4.5 mm] double pointed needles
- Length of smooth scrap yarn: approx 24" fingering weight
You Will Also Need:
- 480 Color A Size 8 glass seed beads; approx 12 grams (optional)
- 240 Color B Size 8 glass seed beads; approx 6 grams (optional)
- Dental Floss Threader (optional)
Winterlude Pattern
$6.00
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About the Designer
Laura Nelkin lives in upstate New York, where the sunny season is short, leaving plenty of time to be indoors knitting. Though she has a degree in apparel design, she took to knitting seven years ago and hasn't looked back since. Laura is currently enamored with lace, and with incorporating beads into knitted jewelry, so most of her designs lean in this direction. She travels often to teach ...
Laura Nelkin lives in upstate New York, where the sunny season is short, leaving plenty of time to be indoors knitting. Though she has a degree in apparel design, she took to knitting seven years ago and hasn't looked back since. Laura is currently enamored with lace, and with incorporating beads into knitted jewelry, so most of her designs lean in this direction. She travels often to teach these techniques and more at workshops around the country. Her designs have been featured in a number of online publications, including Interweave, Knitty.com, Schaefer Yarn Co. and Creative Knitting. Laura is currently working on a book with Potter Craft that is due out in Fall of 2014!
Follow Laura and her design exploits on her blog, nelkindesigns.blogspot.com and see more of her designs at her website. The best way to stay in the loop with her is to sign up for her mailing list.
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