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10 april, 2007

This swatch is in preparation for a lace class I begin teaching next week.   The class is based on the Beginning Lace Class written by Sharon Winsauer of Aurora Alpacas and features a lace sampler scarf.  The first motif in the scarf is Cats Paw demonstrated in this swatch.  Cats Paw is an excellent example of several basic lace principles:

  • Each Yarn-Over (a decorative increase) is paired with a decrease
  • The directional properties of the decreases (left-slanting, right-slanting, and center) are used as design features.

The super chunky yarn will hopefully make the features of this lace pattern clearly visible to my victims -- I mean students.

Yarn: Cascade's Magnum; 100% wool
Needles: US 15
Stitch: Cats Paw
Source: Beginning Lace Class by Sharon Winsauer
Techniques: YO; k2tog (right slanting decrease); skp (left slanting decrease); sl2 tog, k1, psso (center decrease)

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Comments

Lucky victims.

Posted by: Angie | Apr 11, 2007 10:30:15 AM

I feel like I'm in a time warp....
Aren't you a day behind?

Posted by: Gina | Apr 11, 2007 12:58:20 PM

I love the nine-patch squares. How do you do the lines of color that seem to overlap two or more other colors?
Thanks!

Posted by: Donna | Apr 20, 2007 9:05:29 AM

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