This spring I started a new shawl that uses my basket as a pattern. I have owned the basket for several years. At some point I bought linen yarn in like colors to knit a shawl that matches the basket. And I began to knit.
My best guess is that I cast on 127 stitches and then did garter stitches n the straw color for about seven rows.Then I began to copy the pattern from the basket. However as I am counting stitches after knitting for a while it seems that my count is about 10 stitches more. I am not sure if I have picked up a few stitches as I have gone or if I have miscounted my cast on stitches. However, my advice if someone (including me) is trying to make a copy of this shawl, is to write down cast on stitches and try to stay close to this number,
Today I picked the shawl up again after having laid it down before Mary's wedding. I am ready to start the next section and it is a lace section and I can not remember what the pattern was that I was using. So I decided it was time to document my pattern here on the blog site. Below is the photo of the basket that I am using as the pattern:
My notes say that I used the pattern in the Wendy's Fern Shawl for the lace panels. And that I copied the shape from several wraps that I have done lately that have a knit one, knit front and back on the front side beginning and a knit two together knit one on the end of the right side rows, This causes the shawl to have stripes on the bias. You will see what this means when I take a photo of the finished shawl.
This morning I am working on the lace pattern part. My pattern is not as airy as the basket. But I think that I like it well enough to proceed. The lace pattern is k2tog, yo, knit three after the initial beginning on the right side of k1, knit front and back. The row ends with knit tog, k1, You have to kind of make it work at the end and front to keep right pattern. But here is where the k2tog goes:
The two stitches knit together are the stitch over the yo in the row below with the next stitch that would have been the first of the knit three stitches.
The wrong side rows are just knit across with the k1 knit front and back at beginning of row and k2tog, knit 1 at end of row.
Repeat these two rows six times or as many rows as you want the lace pattern to be,
