Category Archives: My Year Of Lace

Yet more lace projects that are tempting me..!

Fircone Square, Irish Diamond and Highland Triangle Shawls, all from Folk Shawls.

And not exactly lace, but the Phiaro Scarf from the new issue of Knitscene ihas jumped on to my To Do list:

It’s fairly Clapotis-esque, I guess, with all the dropped stitches. But the construction is what attracts me. It’s knit in the round as one big tube of stocking stitch and the stitches are then dropped as it’s cast off, and then cut to create a flat scarf. I just really want to try knitting it! Plus it uses SWTC Oasis, which I can buy easily enough and it’s lovely drapey soft yarn. I need to look at my laceweight stash photos again to remind me that I do not need more yarn right now!

Last year’s sock yarn stash reduction was very successful. But it meant that some other stashes got neglected. Or not neglected as such, but added to and not exactly reduced…

This is the current, rather embarrassing state of my laceweight yarn stash. Though some of the yarns are more 4ply, but I bought them intending to use them for lace, so it counts. And I didn’t buy it all myself. But I also can’t resist a bargain which is the reason for the cones of silk and cashmere…

So I decided that 2008 will be My Year Of Lace. I’ve even joined the Year of Lace Ravelry group. I won’t be doing the knitalong, but it’ll help serve as a reminder that I should be focussing away from the feet this year!

I’ve started a list of shawls that I’d like to knit with my stash:

Peacock Feathers Shawl from Fiddlesticks Knitting…

…Frost Flowers from A Gathering of Lace…

…Ene’s Scarf from Scarf Style…

…and of course the Princess Shawl. Though I’ll need to *gasp* buy more yarn to knit it as (a) I don’t have enough in any one colour and (b) anyway, I want to knit it in white. I guess it won’t be a finished in 2008 project, but it would feel like an achievement if I at least cast on for it!

Firstly, I have the Dolphin Lace Scarf from Victorian Lace Today to complete. I haven’t picked it up since the summer, so it still looks like this:

Here’s to a year full of yarn overs and k2tog.