Sunday, August 30, 2015

The Lace Eater Shawl

The Lace Eater Shawl KAL starts on September the 1st!
Have you got your yarn ready?


The Lace Eater came from a desire to depict the all-consuming passion that lace knitting inspires in those of us addicted to lace knitting. 
Cables twist and turn as they move across the surface of the knitted fabric - undulating - consuming the lace … like an infection.
The Lace Eater, an elongated triangular crescent shawl, will challenge lace lovers. You will be required to work from multiple charts, to work increases and decreases on RS and WS rows. Nupps and gathered stitches give texture to the fabric, while cables consume lace motifs as they advance across the fabric.
Rippling with cables and lace, wrap the The Lace Eater shawl about your shoulders and celebrate your lace addiction!
Succumb to your lace addiction - join us for the Lace Eater KAL(when the pattern becomes available for download September 1st), in my Ravelry Group: Lace Eater Designs, and knit this fascinating shawl with others celebrating their lace addiction.
The pattern will be available for purchase on September the 1st

Yarn Substitution:
Choose a solid or only slightly variegated fingering weight (NZ 4 ply) yarn for this shawl in order to highlight the textural nature of the fabric produced.




7 comments:

  1. I would love to make this shawl, the main one pictured, called I think, Laceeater. My question.....are the directions complete in written, or as it says along the way...'rest of shawl knitted from charts". I don't do charts, so would feel awful if the directions were not completely written, in addition to the charts. It's a gorgeous thing. Sharon Branson

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  2. Hi Sharon, sorry but you need to read charts to knit most of this shawl.

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  4. Oh dear, so sorry to hear that, I really don't feel confidant enough to read charts, but thank you, Mary-Anne for answering me. I hope I get bold enough some day.

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    1. Sharon - I just realised you may be interested to know I will very soon be releasing a new pattern (free) that has written directions for the charted section (as well as charts). Having both charts and written instructions (and an easier pattern) may be a good introduction to lace - if you use the chart and get stuck, you can always refer back to the written instructions.

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  5. I thought I was so off on my stitch count on chart A of The Emperor and the Scarab, but I just realized that the chart did not print out completely. Yes, I still have to rip back, but I'm relieved to know that I was not doing anything wrong. Whew!

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    1. If you are printing on US Letter, make sure you select "fit" or scale to fit. The international standard I use (A4) is slightly taller than US Letter - hence extending over a US page. This will be apparent on landscape oriented pages with charts. If that doesn't work, you will have to use the custom fit option to get it to fit your paper.

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