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| Orenburg-style Lace Knitting |
| Update 5/9/2004 - FINISHED! Scroll all the way down for the unblocked picture. 4/25/2002 - I'm working on an Orenburg style lace shawl. I started with Australian down from Skaska Designs, purchased at Galena Khmeleva's lace knitting workshop. I'm spinning on Russian lace spindles, and plying with 2/70 tussah silk. The pattern is my own design, and will be available here as I complete it. I apologize - The pattern is full of mistakes. I haven't updated it in ages, because it was easier to just keep knitting & correcting as I went along. PDF is not a very forgiving format, either. The beginning is OK - the mistakes start after the inner border. Jjust use your common sense, every YO has exactly one decrease right next to it. |
| The Russian lace spindle is spun supported in a butter bowl. Cashmere is spun off the tip of the spindle. Here it has been wrapped with a spun ply of cashmere plus commercial tussah silk, ready to ply off the spindle directly onto a ball. |
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| 8/6/2002 - Sampler shawl knitted from commercial 80/20 silk/cashmere. The border diamonds and the teeth will be incorporated into the final pattern. |
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| Progress! At last the border is finished. I've picked up 321 sts along the straight edge of the border, and started knitting the actual pattern. 9/30/2002 |
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| Tuna-the-cat wears a kitty mantilla. 10/6/2002 |
| A picture to celebrate reaching the half-way point. This was May 26,2003. |
| The knitting was finished on May 8, 2004. Twenty-five months since I bought the cashmere. Unblocked, it's about 50" x 55". I expect it'll be 66" square after it's blocked. I haven't started blocking it yet, because I don't have a frame. Paul will make one, but now we're thinking that it will be used to display the shawl, too. Not permanently - I'll want to wear it sometimes. |