Some Lace

My airplane knitting for the week consisted of lace swatches for my level 2 tkga stuff. I used the Barbara Walker Treasuries (books 1 and 2). One of the fun parts of this has been charting the patterns. I prefer to work lace (and cables) almost exclusively from charts, so before starting each swatch, I charted out the lace pattern.

Here are 3 of the swatches I did. The bottom one is a Milanese Lace, and I don't think I'm going to use it. I got lazy and made it too small I think. The top left is "Starlight" lace. I really like this pattern. It's clever and open and pretty. The top right one is "Elfin" lace. It's a very straightforward pattern--easy to work and pretty.


I'm working on another lace swatch now, to replace the Milanese one. It's a wider pattern, and more of a panel than an allover stitch as these were. I'm a little worried that it might end up exceeding the 7" square limitation, but we'll see how it goes.