Gossamer Capelet

It was that Saturday in Oakland (somewhere near the end of the month) that I went to the California Weavers Guild Conference. There was a dealers room. There is always a merchants room of one kind or another. Anyway – I bought this pattern from Betty Fryer for a capelet type shawl. The shaping is extremely similar to most of Alison’s patterns and the actual lace stitch patterns look kind of like leaves that open into a version of feather and fan that keeps increasing as you knit down the shawl.

I started with two balls of this lovely 600m/100gm heathered purple yarn (merino/alpaca blend), a signature 3.75 stiletto tipped circular needle and a lot of patience.

Starting with around 80 stitches isn’t bad, but by the time you are on row 81, well the count is around 650. That is a lot of stitches.

Not feeling like picot edging, crocheted edging or anything else fancy (hello? 900 meters of yarn and my attention span was slipping), I went ahead and used one of the neat little Lacis bead hooks to add some interest in the last four knit rows followed by a simple knit bind-off from the right side. Currently, it is obviously an almost circle shaped and about 50 cm deep prior to blocking

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6 Responses to Gossamer Capelet

  1. Isobel says:

    Neat. I just finished a Wendy Johnstone pattern called Lady Bertram. Took almost all of a 100gm ball of sock yarn. I wanted to put a bead at the point of each pattern in the edging but couldn’t find a crochet hook small enough to go through the bead. At that point I was NOT about to break the yarn and thread a bunch of beads. It looks good without them.

  2. AlisonH says:

    That’s a lot of stitches!

    California wood rats are cute, with big ears, a mouse-y face rather than the ugly Norway rat look. One discovered the ground under my birdfeeder Friday and the predators have not yet discovered it. It’s outside, so I’m settling for stamping my feet and going Shooo!

  3. AlisonH says:

    (But one inside the house, on the other hand… Die vermin die, definitely.)

  4. Debbie says:

    Beautiful work as usual:) I just finished the Wingspan capelet and it will have to wait to be blocked when Mark and I get home. We are currently outside of Denver Colorado and will be traveling through the state for the next three weeks or so as part of our summer safari..

  5. I’ll be fascinated to see the difference after the capelet is blocked.

  6. Helen Fleischer says:

    Would you believe I followed my Yahoo RSS link to the blog before I saw the email? The times they are a changing. Me I’m knitting socks on dpn’s and a bottle carrier for Eric on my only 12″ circulars. That made a good portable project for a pool party, then down at the mall for the fireworks.

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