Border Help?
So, I am working through my lace yarn stash. I'm sorry I keep showing you all discontinued colors in my projects. About a year ago, when we put the discontinued lace yarn colors on sale, I bought a TON (while, not quite literally, but enough to keep me knitting for a long while, obviously). On the upside, this enabled us to bring in lots of new, delicious colors of lace yarn for your enjoyment!
I absolutely love the shape of the Curved Shawl from Victorian Lace Today. It's the only shawl I've ever worn that actually stays in place during the day. I knew my hand-dyed yarn was a little busy for a lace pattern, so I decided to make a shawl in simple garter stitch, but with the curved shawl shaping. I'm going to use two hanks for the body of the shawl and then a third hank for an interesting border - something to liven up the shawl.
I need help choosing the border. Here are some I've picked out. Which one do you think would look best?
P.S. For those who would like to know, my shawl is being knit in Shimmer, discontinued color Trail.
I absolutely love the shape of the Curved Shawl from Victorian Lace Today. It's the only shawl I've ever worn that actually stays in place during the day. I knew my hand-dyed yarn was a little busy for a lace pattern, so I decided to make a shawl in simple garter stitch, but with the curved shawl shaping. I'm going to use two hanks for the body of the shawl and then a third hank for an interesting border - something to liven up the shawl.
I need help choosing the border. Here are some I've picked out. Which one do you think would look best?
P.S. For those who would like to know, my shawl is being knit in Shimmer, discontinued color Trail.
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Comment by KKBacon on September 30, 2008 at 12:02pm - Ditto-Fern.
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Comment by Elenor on September 23, 2008 at 11:38am - I am also agree. The Fern edging has a garter feel to it that would go great with the rest of the shawl and would be simple enough to do in that yarn.
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Comment by Rissa on September 22, 2008 at 7:01pm - Agreed! Fern Edging would look best with the garter stitch in my opinion. :D Looks great so far!
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Comment by Susan the Blue Lake Knitter on September 22, 2008 at 6:27pm -
Tina,
You are my kind of knitter... take a yarn, pick a pattern, totally change the pattern, then figure out how to make it work! For the edging, I think the Fern Edging would look best. The others are way too "lacey". I'm guessing the edging will be in the same color so the Fern Edging would look best.
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