My first pattern is up for sale a few hours from now, and I really like how it turned out!

The lace pattern is picked up from a book that has been out of print for several years, but is in my local library.  I have a lofty plan to modify all the written instructions and turn them into cowls, but the more reasonable plan is to just do that with the patterns I think will work best for the variegated yarns I prefer using.  Or to learn new tricks with yarnovers and decreases, and come up with my own lace patterns. 

The one I chose here, #54 in the book, was a really fun knit, and fast, but nothing approaching boring.  Plus it’s got easy repairs as you go along in case you lose or gain a stitch along the way.  Can’t beat a no-frogging project, can you?

I have some more designs in the works at the moment, but this is the one for today. 

The price is $3.50US, and all proceeds from the sale of this pattern are going towards the purchase of Knitting Lace: A Workshop with Patterns and Projects, by Susanna Lewis, which is currently out of print and very expensive to buy used.