Lace sweater
My sister is getting married next summer, and has asked for a lace sweater.
So I started by doing some swatches of various lace patterns:
Left to right, then top to bottom: Frost flowers, Dayflower, Thistle Leaf, Feather and fan, Ostrich plumes, stockinette.
My sister and her fiancé both liked the Dayflower pattern better.
Next I had to work out a schematic:
The schematic is drawn up in MetaPost, which is nice, because I can easily get it to do this:
So that was the plan.
I decided to do it top down, starting just after the shoulder shaping. That way, I could (a) stop early if time became an issue and have the sweater still have shoulders and so on, and (b) go back and make the shoulders longer or shorter if it didn't quite fit.
The first thing I did was to start the back:
The rectangle off to the side of the schematics is the trim. She wants a nice, wide fold-back collar that goes down the V-neck. I was actually thinking of using the edging from Mediterranean lace for this.
So I started by doing some swatches of various lace patterns:
Left to right, then top to bottom: Frost flowers, Dayflower, Thistle Leaf, Feather and fan, Ostrich plumes, stockinette.
My sister and her fiancé both liked the Dayflower pattern better.
Next I had to work out a schematic:
The schematic is drawn up in MetaPost, which is nice, because I can easily get it to do this:
So that was the plan.
I decided to do it top down, starting just after the shoulder shaping. That way, I could (a) stop early if time became an issue and have the sweater still have shoulders and so on, and (b) go back and make the shoulders longer or shorter if it didn't quite fit.
The first thing I did was to start the back:
The rectangle off to the side of the schematics is the trim. She wants a nice, wide fold-back collar that goes down the V-neck. I was actually thinking of using the edging from Mediterranean lace for this.