Drooping Elm Leaves

Another lace pattern taken from Barbara Walker's A Treasury of Knitting Patterns. Treasury is such a great word for this and her other books; I've been inspired to create something of my own, which I'll start on in September. So here we have the lace pattern Miss Walker calls Drooping Elm Leaves, which has a staggered leaf pattern, as opposed to the twinned leaves of the Beech Leaf pattern. This scarf is composed of a garter stitch border (4 rows at the top and bottom, 2 stitches on each side) and two panels of the pattern. As with any other lace, it will show better when blocked.

I'm using TLC's Cara Mia in 2205 Melon. I saw this in Joann and was curious; the composition is 87% manmade, 13% ANGORA, and I happened to have a 40% off coupon, so it came home with me. Soft and long on yardage (210 yards), Cara Mia has some nice colors, particularly 2502 Mulberry and 2551 Honeydew. The great thing is this is machine-washable, so it's a good yarn for hard-wearing objects like hats, scarves and mitts.

I've also been trying to find the perfect pattern to show off the brilliantly blue rope-y Mondial Splendid yarn Mia gave me earlier this year. I found it on Lauren's blog, and it's from (no surprise) a Barbara Walker treasury, called Seafoam. You know, it's a group of yarn-overs and garter stitch. I think I'll figure it out on my own.

Lastly, Rebecca magazine's latest issue is all about mohair. Lovely stuff, but I've already got magazines with some of the patterns. There are, also, the Rowan and Rowan Classic Yarns magazines, all previews available at Colourway. Lovely stuff. Have a good time at the linkies, dearies.