To cut to the chase, start here.
I started lace knitting early -- I knit this shawl in Glasgow in 1958, when I was pregnant with Rachel.
It's a Paton's pattern, designed by Mrs Hunter of Unst, mentioned with respect by Hazel Carter in the bibliography of her important "Shetland Lace Knitting from Charts." It is knit in six separate pieces.
I lost the pattern, somehow, and was overjoyed to find it again recently in a charity book sale here in Edinburgh.
After that, nothing for many decades, except the odd eyelet pattern here and there. Then I knit the "Old Shell Shawl" from Madeline Weston's "Traditional Sweater Book" for Helen's first child, and again in different colours for his cousin Alistair. (ISBN 0-86318-179-1: I think the book has a different name on different shores of the Atlantic.)
Helen's son Oliver died at 6 1/2 weeks. When she was pregnant again, soon after, I pulled out all the stops, as I then thought, and knit this for Archie:
It's the "My Weekly Baby Knits Shawl", still available from Jamieson & Smith. The design is by Gladys Amedro, although it doesn't say so.
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First Holy Communion veil, with construction notes |
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