knitted gauze

For some time I´ve been interested in gauze weaves and lacy things in general. Woven gauzes often have a sort of zigzag pattern, where the zigzags are defined by different densities. As far as I know, gauzes are no longer being woven in Peru. But last night, looking around for a sweater (it´s cold here!) I came across a triangular lace shawl which at first glance looked a lot like a gauze weave. It had zigzags of different open textures. It turned out to be knitted out of very fine alpaca yarn; the different textures were created with open garter stitch and with some kind of brioche stitch. It was a very effective pattern, and quite pretty. It reminded me how effective the combination of different simple stitches can be, when each has a different density.

As for my own personal knitting, it hasn´t progressed too much... I started the peacock shawl in the airport and it helped salvage my sanity during the journey from ****. I had the worst trip I¨ve ever experienced. Thank goodness I had yarn with me.