Yesterday I wrote about how well this week’s yarn Fibra Natura’s Cotton True Sport, a lovely, soft, Pima cotton yarn stands up to laundering. The swatch of the ripple stitch pattern below is an example of how it comes out unscathed. For the next few posts, we’ll look at ripple stitch…
Ripple lace stitch patterns are a favorite for summer knits. Try out the new Cotton True Sport by Fibra Natura and try your hand at a custom ripple lace stitch pattern. In the above photo you can see some asymmetrical lace patterns that make an interesting swirl and wave in…
Talking about knitting lace patterns in yesterday’s post made me think about a time when lace knitting was a very scary thing for me. I was so intimidated by it that I wouldn’t even try it. While the Cozy Kiddo Poncho from yesterday is a very easy pattern, here are…
This week I’ve been writing about knitting socks and dropped stitch lace using Wisdom Yarn’s Prose. Today I’ll reveal what the dropped stitch lace looks like after you drop all the stitches. Here’s a before picture and you can read more details about this in yesterday’s post. And this is what…
This week I’m knitting with Wisdom Yarn’s Prose Sock Yarn, but I’m leaving yesterday’s socks behind to explore knitting dropped stitch lace. Dropped stitch lace consists of planning to unravel certain stitches in your knitted fabric ahead of time to create that familiar “ladder” that forms when you drop a…