I seem to be knitting a lot of projects lately that have knitted borders. Or maybe the borders just take so long to knit that they feel like endless projects. Not sure. At any rate, here’s another one.This is the lace jacket by Brooke Nico from Vogue Knitting fall 2010. I cast it on last fall in Kidsilk Haze, then put it aside for a while. I’ve been charging away on it lately – mostly because it’s so astonishingly pretty – and am now knitting the border. The jacket is constructed as a circle – well, actually, a pentagon – with a border all around the outside of the circle. You leave stitches on holders in two wedges of the pentagon, then go back and make sleeves there. I still have to do that bit. The red stitches toward the centre are those saved stitches.

But look at this border. On one hand, I think it’s really too wide for the circle and that maybe I should have substituted a narrower lace border. On the other, well, it’s just so pretty that I can’t stop knitting it. I’m incredulous that I’m knitting something so lovely.

What do you think?