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- this, over a 12 hour period
- worse outside of the city

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eBay auction, 'Beyer lace knitting 30 patterns Herbert Niebling 1950'
AKA, Kunst Stricken, Große und Kleine Decken 2004 edition.

Recently, this item went for US$81 on eBay, however, it can be bought brand new from German vendors for 12.90 Euros, (about US$20.)

Inside this folder is a black-and-white glossy page booklet of designs and several worksheets for the corresponding charts. Charts for 2 designs are not included in the folder, but can be obtained through the publisher.
eta: Lacis website. updated Aug '09: Lacis website , (see Alpenrose and Farnkraut pdf files.)

This evening we had visitors to our yard - 4 of them looking for food.

Lyra shawl - Herbert Niebling design

52" blocked size, 38" before

- yarn bleeds in hot water, with and without soap

- lengthened some diagonals

- sources of lace knitting patterns, some have Herbert Niebling designs - some credited some not, [*still available;]
Neue Mode 5207
Burda Special Strickspitze E418
*Lavori Artistici a Calza 11
Diana Strickdeckchen D736
*Kunststricken, Große und Kleine Decken
*Knitting Lace Designs of the Modern Mode, Book 1
Burda Special Gestricke Spitzen E903
Burda Special Kunststricken E198

OTN, another go at a diy 'Lyra,' combined charts from Federdolde and Orchidee/Alpenrose.
- 3 mm circs
- ColourMart 55/35/10 merino/viscose/cashmere
- added length to some diagonal lines, not as many as previous FO's which lay flat, but ended up with largish holes.

Niebling's Lyra, wip

- started Mar 29
- 32"/80 cm 3.0 mm Addi Lace circular and Addi Turbo
- on Rnd 92
- 150 g cone of Colourmart merino/viscose/cashmere, ruby colour
- added extra mesh rpts from Rnd 81 (to Rnd 100)

Federdolde Finished

194 Rnds, 32" US 000/1.5 mm Addi circulars

30" finished size, 24" before blocking

70/2 linen thread by Valley Yarns/Fibers, from Webs

Knitted Lace Designs of the Modern Mode Book 1, Kazuko Ichida, (blue book), adapted pattern #21 into a square version.

Federdolde WIP setback

- currently, on round 153 of 194.

[1st photo] at round 173 and





[2nd photo] frogged back to round 141.

- last Friday I decided to frog back 30+ rounds, (over 20.000 sts!) as the corners were too narrow, not quite 2 full rpts of corner leaves; no lifeline - took 1 1/2 hours to pick up sts again, still, not too bad with this thread-needle combination.

Federdolde - WIP

Michael Kaprelian's

Federdolde WIP

Federdolde - precursor to Lyra? or vice versa

- other knitters' photos;
elizabethchase1
sweetdev
(eta: Mar 17) French forum
(eta Jan 9) some photos from this book can be seen on oceanknitter's blog, see July 08, 07

- Book 1 has the octagonal version of this pattern, square version might be in Bk 2?
(Edit Jan 9: there's also a smaller round version of this design, #3, pg 4)
- more info on the books in the posting here: lacismuseum.org, scroll half way down to NEW in the shop

- the chart in Book 1 is for an octagonal version, however I am going to try and make a square version by repeating the leaves pattern in the corners - don't know if this will work or not.

- I have another variation of this pattern, as well, Burda Special Strickspitze E418 23, which has 4 repeats of the motif, but a different filler stitch. Burda gives credit to Niebling in this issue, but does not name the pattern, just Viereckdecke, (square doily,)
(eta: the name for this pattern is Hannelore:) Flickr/ Ravelry ArsUna.

- US 000, 1.5 mm Addi Turbo circulars
- Dec 12 - swatching
- Dec 17 - Louet Euroflax Venice, frogged this/1st attempt, (from - The Beehive Yarn & Needlecraft in Calgary, Alberta.) The 1 ply Euroflax has thick and thin spots; splits occasionally; softer and more difficult for me to knit with than crisp, tightly twisted crochet cotton.
- Jan 05,'08; frogged the center of Federdolde
- Restarted Mar 08 using a thinner, plied linen thread, (both the 1 ply and 2 ply twist so I give the thread a 'twirl' every so often- maybe every 30 or 40 sts.) The 70/2 is spun so tightly I can't even see that it's plied - much easier to knit with than the 14/1.

Feathered Border notes, lace sampler

started with 1.5 mm circs., edging from back issue of Anna, Burda

Heirloom Knitting (2004 edition), Feathered Border. Feb 25/08,

Chart 2, (over 78 st pattern rpt on 2.5 mm circs,) changes;

Row 87 & 88 - center 2 ‘dots’ = 2 (or k2); (ie do not inc again, followup of the dbl-dot-inc in Row 86)
Row 92 - add a YO (inc) after (to the right of) center \ (dec);
Row 129 - add a YO (inc) before (to the right of) center \ (dec).

Chart 3 changes;

Row 141 - at the 3 diamond shapes, used \o..o/ for o…o ie add decs on each side of this sequence;
Row 149 - changed stitch count 11 to 10 and added a / (k2tog dec) along the right edge of the large diamond shape;
Rows 158-162 left of the V-shape there’s a cluster of stitch numbers that are short 1 st each, ie where the st counts are 8,6,6,5,5 I used 9,7,7,6,6 stitches respectively; (2.0 mm circs from Row 174 to end.)

Rosentischdecke finished

33 1/2" blocked.

There's no designer mentioned in either issue below.

- 80 cm 1,5 mm circs
- size 11 steel crochet hook
- size 30 crochet cotton

- on the cover of Lavori Artistici a Calza 11. For 98 cm Diameter, suggested; thread, Cordonnet? 30; needles, 2.0 mm circulars; hook 1.0 mm.

- also in Neue Mode 5207 (Special Edition Program 1987. 5207/01, pg 3, oop - eBay.) For 98-100 cm Diameter, suggested; thread, 200g Liana 20; needles, 50 cm and 100 cm 2,5 mm circulars; hook, 1,75 mm
- there are 10+ consecutive rows of mesh stitches that are very tedious to do.
- knitting/crocheting finished Fe 07; Fe 08 - 27 1/2" before blocking, potato starched
- no binding in this pattern - the opposite occurs where the stitch counts increase/decrease rapidly in subsequent rows of the floral designs ie puckering.

Rosentischdecke

Lavori 11/01
- on Rnd 193 of 212
- 1568 sts (98 sts x 16 rpts)

Free Online Patterns

Annie's Attic posts a free pattern daily.

Knitting the last YO in the row

Lavori 11/01
... what I learned ...
- how not to knit into a YO when it's the last stitch in the round, [blue arrows,] makes for a messy extra strand in the resulting eyelet














- instead of kniting into the YO space, knit into the space from the row below the YO [green arrows,] ie knit under 2 strands instead of one.

Lavori 11/01

Hazard of online shopping

They don't look the same, yet when you open them ...
FYI: you can buy a new copy of 'LAVORI ARTISTICI a CALZA 11,' (Lavori 11,) - in Italian - which has most of the same patterns as a used copy of Neue Mode, 5207 - in German.
[edit:] Apr 8/08, The cover design on Lavori 11 is not in Neue Mode 5207.
Lavori 11 has more patterns - 66 patterns while Neue Mode - 5207 has 54. From what I can tell there are 5 lace insertion patterns in the German magazine that are not in Lavori 11. They even have the same photos, just different page layouts, reverse image, etc.
NB: The lace pattern that I made last March from Lena 09/06 is also in Lavori 11! Also, I think I've seen this pattern on the cover of Neue Mode - 5601.
- see oceanknitter's blog for more photos/info

Hope this helps even one of you laceknitters who's shopping online for patterns.


A custom knit cardigan made for DMIL finished Dec 2007, no pattern.

"Orchidee"

Strickspitze Burda Special 418 #24.

Burda 418 - purchased from an eBay vendor in Germany, (out of print)

• was on Rnd 169, but frogged back 46 rounds to fix a big boo-boo.

• Dec 5 - 200 Rnds and crochet edging done, steel crochet hook sz 12, ~ 34" unblocked.

• Dec 15 - blocked. Changes include adding width, reducing width, as well as lengthening along the diagonals to minimize binding.

- links for 2 socks at a time;

knitaddicted Magic Loop
Cybersocks 2 Socks on 2 Circs

- great resources from the library;

A Knitting Glossary
Knitting Workshop with Elizabeth Zimmermann
Alice Starmore's book of Fair Isle knitting
Charted Knitting Designs : A Third Treasury of Kniting Patterns
Knitting Lace
A Gathering of Lace