Ta-da!
This is my slightly-modified version of E.J. Slayton’s Ostrich Plume Lace Throw from Vogue Knitting Baby Blankets (one of the On the Go! series), knitted in ten balls (ten!) of Rowan Calmer, started a great long time ago, I’m afraid, but finished at last and gracing my sofa already.
I had intended to make a much larger throw, but if you’ve read the saga you will know that I was nearly heartily sick of the thing; perhaps time heals all, as I’m very happy with it now that it’s done! It is about 40 x 37 inches (say 101 x 94 cm) give or take, as it is quite stretchy from both the lace and the springiness of the Calmer, and it has not been blocked. Now that I look at the photos closely, I wonder if I should have worked it on a size larger needles, but on the other hand the stretchiness might solve that for me.
I didn’t like the fact that the top edge of the lace didn’t match the bottom edge, due to the fact that that while the bottom starts off with the pattern row, the top finishes with the "plain" Row 2 and a decrease row (which is added to help the top scallop the same way the bottom does).
Instead of the dec row, I worked the patt row (Row 1) but did not put the yo in the small cable-like sections — this brought the stitch count down to where it would have been after the dec row — and then I worked the 8 rows of garter st. If I’d been willing to rip out the top border a third time, I would have slipped in a K2tog at each of those spots in the first garter row, as it still doesn’t scallop quite as much as I’d like. But the eyelets in the plume section are closer to the garter border now, and the passed-over bar across the cable-like section also match the bottom edge more closely.
That said, I love this lace pattern — it really speaks to me, for some reason. Mostly the plume-like bits, I think. I worked 11 repeats instead of the 9 in the original number of sts, and carried on until I’d more-or-less run out of yarn at the end of the tenth ball. (I might have gotten another repeat out of the last ball if I’d been willing to gamble!)
This color of Calmer is "Chiffon" — alas, discontinued.
Now I need only some cooler weather — already have plenty of good books waiting!
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