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Lace Jacket by Brooke Nico 2

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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.Lace Jacket by Brooke Nico knit in Rowan Kidsilk Haze by Deborah CookeThis 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?

Kidsilk Haze & Lace

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I’ve ended up with two lace projects, both in Kidsilk Haze, on my needles. (Good thing I have too many needles.) No sooner did I cast on the Lady’s Circular Cape from VLT – which is proving to be an addictive knit – than the KSH for the Lace Cardigan in VK arrived. So, I cast it on, as well. Since I’m in the midst of a revision that is bending my brain (all good) I’m getting lots of knitting done as I think.

Here’s my progress so far on the Lady’s Circular Cape from Victorian Lace Today. (Which is a truly amazing book.) This one is cast on at the neck, then you work back and forth to the hem. At the end, you knit an edging around the whole thing. The colour of this one is Black Currant and it’s a very deep purple. I’ve worked about 25 rows of the pattern – of course, it’s lace so it looks like a lump right now. The little bits of sock yarn are my stitch markers – they indicate the pattern repeats: Lady's Circular Cape in Shell Pattern by Jane Sowerby knit in Rowan Kidsilk Haze by Deborah CookeThe other project is a Lace Cardigan from the current issue of Vogue Knitting. This one is knit outward from the centre back in a pentagon. I’ve used the colour Trance, which is a smokey blue. I’ve done about 30 rows from the first chart and again, it looks like a lump.Lace Jacket by Brooke Nico knit in Rowan Kidsilk Haze by Deborah CookeSo tell me – what’s on your needles?