my leaves are blooming!

Here we are up through the end of chart 1. The pattern looks fairly complex, the chart is pretty involved, but it's actually not hard to knit. Once you get the first few rounds established, you can tell where the leaves are going to be, and it's not hard to keep your place. The leaves are patterned on every other row, but the faggoting and waves are patterned every row. I love the waves, or maybe they are fronds? symmetrical swooshes? in the center of each side.

Last night I glanced at the picture in the book again and it's clear that my scale is very different than what's shown. The part in the photo above is about a foot square. The design looks as though it is easily extensible by repeating chart 2 as necessary, so I may just keep going until I have a nice large square, reserving yarn for the border. It will only get bigger, so this is the last time I'll be able to spread it all out until it's done. Part of knitting lace is trust in the final transformation.

Comments

[claudia]

Carrie, that lace is absolutely beautiful.

Better you than me. ;-)

[alison]

Oh my god, that's gorgeous! You amaze me.

[carrie]

thank you both! I know that either of you could do it too-- probably better :)

[the country girl]

Carrie, I was online looking to see if I could find anyone who had made that amazing shawl, "Frost Flowers and Leaves". Can I ask how you are coming along with yours now? I see this is in your archives a while back now. Did you finish it? Could I possibly get your impressions on how hard it was to do, any suggestions, impressions and would love to see yours in photos if you have any more recent ones posted!