Friday 1 July 2011

Allegretto shawl pattern

This is a knitting pattern for a light and cheerful lace shawl with plenty of air and texture: long zigzag rows blending into a narrow trellis lace edging all around.
It is a relatively quick and easy lace knitting project, since the shawl is worked in one piece without any grafting, picking up stitches or difficult techniques.

Allegretto Shawl


The shawl requires one 100 g skein of lace weight yarn - approximately 800 m or 850 yds. Naturally, it can be worked in lighter and heavier yarn weights as well.

The pattern is available on Ravelry and YarnCanada shop.

Some help with lace cast-on and bind-off methods can be found in this post.

Allegretto Shawl

Allegretto Shawl

Allegretto Shawl


The sample shawl is knitted in Madelinetosh Tosh Lace hand-dyed yarn, shade Corsage:

Madelinetosh Tosh Lace Corsage

Thursday 30 June 2011

Summer verdure

Hot weather - short text post: had to try some popular style jewellery parts and so these three études in green were born:

Green lucite flower earrings


Green glass bead and antique bronze necklace


Green velvet ribbon choker necklace with fairy cameo