19 February 2017

A Year of Estonian Lace

I have joined in the 2017 Year of Estonian Lace MKAL over at Ravelry, the pattern is by Elizabeth Ravenwood, you can find all the details here:
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/2017-year-of-estonian-lace-mkal


The yarn I have chosen is a gorgeous Jaipur Silk Fino which is a 100% Mulberry Silk, it is so soft and I love the teal green.

I have to confess that I knew nothing about Estonian Lace before I started this KAL :) This book is proving an interesting read

I am also ashamed to say I only had a vague idea of where exactly Estonia is (It's just south of Finland in case you were wondering!)



I had some trouble initially with the 'nupps' a common feature in Estonian Lace where you knit into a stitch 7 times and then purl through all 7 loops on the way back to make a sort of bobble


as you can see my 'nupps' need some work :)



I had more success with the 'Ligonberry' pattern for February


It is difficult to see the beautiful patterns with lace knitting until it is finished and blocked but I am happy so far


17 comments:

  1. Very cool! I'm going to enjoy watching your progress on this. I've never done nupps or bobbles or any kind -- they are a mystery to me. And lace knitting scares me! lol!

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  2. the shawl looks fantastic! I love geography and knew where Estonia was :)

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  3. A friend at work tried to teach me how to do Estonian Lace knitting. I was quite the failure. It's pretty tricky. Your knitting looks great, don't give up like I did.

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  4. Great stuff!! I am an Estonian lace knitter. It took me a couple of years practice before I finally got started on a shawl. Yes the nupps were the hardest to do, especially I now realise, because on all utube videos they were made with Continental or US knitting. I learnt English knitting, cause that's how we knit here in Australia. Nancy Bush's book with her DVD really was the eye opener for me. I love Lily of the Valley stitches. Keep up your good work - Blocking does make the world of difference.

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  5. Wow.....Estonian lace knitting looks very tricky. You are off to a wonderful start! Love the Jaipur Silk Fino yarn you are using and the colour teal green you have selected is beautiful. Some very lovely patterns there.

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  6. It is a lovely book, I've done few of those, but I find those nupps still difficult. Are you doing a sampler?

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  7. Practice makes perfect and all that. It will be lovely when it's done!

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  8. Fabulous! I just finished a scarf with a 5 count and managed to screw it up many times. You are doing wonderfully.

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  9. Wow! that looks challenging! I shall look forward to seeing your progress and enjoying the MKAL vicariously! Thanks for the geography lesson too.

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  10. It will be exciting to watch you create this beautiful piece.

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  11. It will be exciting to watch you create this beautiful piece.

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  12. wow. this is stunning. i can almost feel its softness, patting the laptop screen

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  13. Wow! So pretty! I adore the color.

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  14. Oh beautiful, so glad you have found the joy of lace knitting Elaine, I was given a ring shawl from Lewis Scotland years ago, which was over 100 years old and you could pull it through a finger ring. about 3 years ago I pulled it out to show some one and it was disintegrating, I was so sad to see something so beautiful breaking down in to hundreds of pieces of wool. It was a pale salmon colour. I had planned to send it back to a museum but it was to in so may bits and pieces. Your lace is going to be priceless one day. Cheers Glenda

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  15. Beautiful! I have an Orenburg shawl from Russia that is a similar kind of lace-making. I'm amazed at how fast those ladies can make those things. Your shawl is going to be stunning!

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