It’s no secret that I love A Verb for Keeping Warm‘s yarns, and I live close enough to A Verb for Keeping Warm’s brick and mortar store that I can go there on a semi-regular basis. This is dangerous and…
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On Designing a Lace Triangle III: Cast on
This is part three of an ongoing tutorial on designing lace triangles. If you’d like to look at parts I and II, click on the links. In the first and second installments, we talked about the actual work of inserting…
On Designing a Lace Triangle II
Yesterday, I posted about designing a lace triangle using inserts. Today I’m going to talk about all over lace, such as the lace used in Arabella. Keep in mind that these are partial explanations, and that I will try to…
On Designing a Lace Triangle I
The first and only time I knit a lace triangle prior to designing Clothilde, I found myself really taken with the way the pattern sped along to a quick finish. (The pattern was the Diamonds and Pearls Shawl, from The…
About Arabella
There’s always a story. Arabella’s story began when I was reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (again) and began daydreaming about playing with the idea of fantasy and fashion. The world of the novel is set during the Regency, but…
Arabella
New shawl pattern, now available! Arabella is a simple lace triangle shawl that looks a lot more complicated than it really is. Envisioned as a modern take on Regency fashion, this shawl adds a touch of dash and class to…
