I've decided to make a blog to talk about my lace knitting adventures. I've been knitting lace for many many years. In fact, my first knitted project was a lace scarf from one of those wonderful old 70s magazines, "American Home Crafts." I wish I still had that scarf, but it disappeared somewhere along the way.
I've long been fascinated with all the wonderful lace publications from Europe: Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark and Norwegian, for just a sampling of publications in my library. I keep buying these books and magazines, but for the most part, I've not actually knit much from them. And I want that to change!
I belong to the Knitted-Lace list, graciously provided by Helen Eisler, and I know there are many other knitters there and on other lists who are similarly intrigued with these patterns. I know that what often stops me from doing these projects are translation problems. Many of the patterns are in charted form, but even then there are instructions that carry you along in the chart. Sometimes these are small hurdles, sometimes greater ones.
When I started getting serious about knitting from some of these patterns, I thought it would be a good thing to share the things I was learning with others, with the hope that they could use this information to get started on their own lace adventures.
So with that in mind, I offer up my “Adventures with Lace” blog.
Posted by Shelda at May 18, 2003 12:23 PMOOOH, this is good. I love the in-process pictures. I'm just getting started on doilies and it's great to see what you are doing.
Posted by: Betty at May 19, 2003 08:57 AM