[Lurker 2]

My very favourite circular is this one from Golden Hands in the 1970's. You pick up the stitches along the border, in six segments and knit into the centre.

 

[AlderRose]

My very favourite circular is this one from Golden Hands in the 1970's. You pick up the stitches along the border, in six segments and knit into the centre.

That border is something else!!! Totally gorgeous!

 

[Lurker 2]

That border is something else!!! Totally gorgeous!

Took me 17 years as I up-skilled!!!!! But in the end I completed most of it in a six month period. I really really love that border.

 

[ouijian]

Took me 17 years as I up-skilled!!!!! But in the end I completed most of it in a six month period. I really really love that border.

I've knitted a couple of things from Victorian Lace Today. The patterns are lovely. There is a section in the back for designing your own shawls. I've actually done one of the scarves but with a different border. It was fun working out the pattern.

 

[Lurker 2]

I've knitted a couple of things from Victorian Lace Today. The patterns are lovely. There is a section in the back for designing your own shawls. I've actually done one of the scarves but with a different border. It was fun working out the pattern.

:sm24: :sm24: :sm24:

 

[Ms Sue]

I know one I don't like - the triangle that is big enough to wrap nicely, which makes the point half way to the floor (I am short). I like to be able to sit without having to pull my shawl up, so I don't want mine too deep.

 

[AlderRose]

I know one I don't like - the triangle that is big enough to wrap nicely, which makes the point half way to the floor (I am short). I like to be able to sit without having to pull my shawl up, so I don't want mine too deep.

Have you tried the modified triangle like this one? This is Dee O'Keefe's "Mayapple." She's done others, too.

 

[Ms Sue]

No, I haven't tried that, but it certainly looks interesting. Will have to do some looking.

 

[Rita Rug]

I like the knitted on borders, too. Sharon Miller and Elizabeth Lovick both have lace knitting books with those kinds of borders in them. Once you grasp the idea, you can mix and match and come up with borders of your own. Then you have to do the math and figure out how your design will fit onto the garment. That's where I get lost!!! The MATH!

Lilyanna's border was extraordinary, but I like the other knitted on borders that Dee O'Keefe has used, too.

Dragonflylace,
I could sit and look at Nancy Bush's book on Estonian lace for hours. One of these days I'm going to get brave and knit a shawl with nupps in it.

Oh, THANKS! I will check them Out!

 

[Shylinn]

I actually have almost all if the golden hands beginning with the very first one - which one is it please.

 

[Lurker 2]

I actually have almost all if the golden hands beginning with the very first one - which one is it please.

It is definitely in the collection, 'All You Can Knit and Crochet for Babies and Children', Do you have that one?

 

[Shylinn]

I have literally hundreds of them - at the top of the cover it will say "in weekly parts art 47 volume 4" do you know which weekly part and volume? This will save me hours of paging through them - and you know what will happen then! lol

 

[Rita Rug]

Have you tried the modified triangle like this one? This is Dee O'Keefe's "Mayapple." She's done others, too.

It is it my library!

 

[GrandmaJoKnitty]

Can anyone put up links to these designers, please

 

[AlderRose]

Can anyone put up links to these designers, please

I know Dee O'Keefe's designs can be found on Ravelry and maybe Craftsy. You might check those two sites for the other designers, too.

At the risk of sounding extremely naive, please clue me in on "Golden Hands."

 

[Shylinn]

Golden Hands was a craft magazine published weekly in the late 1960's. It cost 95 cents and covered everything from beginning to expert instruction and patterns for knitting, crochet, needlepoint ., embroidery, dressmaking, rug making, etc. I have several years of the magazines in binders and they are creatively invaluable, and they provide laughs because we actually wore these clothing styles. The instructional parts are still valid, clear and comprehensive. Lots of stitch patterns and lovely items to make in Shetland lace, Irish lace, cutwork, Hucking, etc.

 

[Shylinn]

I need to add that the magazines were intended to start you at the very first steps of each craft, and every project posted in following weeks was designed to elevate you skill level so that after some time, you actually were pretty much of an expert. I have the magazines from the first one - so if I want to learn to tat, for instance. I just go to the early volumes when they introduced tatting, and start at "how to hold the shuttle".

 

[chooksnpinkroses]

I love leaves and any design which includes leaf lace is a favourite with me.
I prefer the crescent shaped shawls as they stay on better. Not keen on triangle shawls as the point can end up where you don't want it to go! Also not keen on the look of the double line of holes down the centre back... :sm01: :sm01:

 

[chooksnpinkroses]

I need to add that the magazines were intended to start you at the very first steps of each craft, and every project posted in following weeks was designed to elevate you skill level so that after some time, you actually were pretty much of an expert. I have the magazines from the first one - so if I want to learn to tat, for instance. I just go to the early volumes when they introduced tatting, and start at "how to hold the shuttle".

This is the weekly mag which I taught myself to tatt from... Many years ago. Don't do much these days as it is such a slow process for me. I did manage to teach myself the faster way some years ago, but I'm still fairly slow. I have lots of hankies with pretty tatted edges done in no 60 or 80 tatting/crochet cotton... I also made some tatted table matts, nothing bigger than 14 or 15 inches across. Took a while..
Years ago I tatted snowflake Christmas tree decorations and everyone was given a small box full for Christmas that year, I still use mine... I stiffened them with watered down PVA wood glue.
I learned to needle tatt a few years ago, but it is looser and doesn't look quite as nice to my eye as shuttle tatting... Ah, memories... :sm01: :sm01: :sm01:

 

[blawler]

My favorite designer is, of course, our own Dee O'Keefe and my favorite shape, right now, is crescent and next is triangular. I personally like fingering weight yarn, sock yarn actually, and I like shades of blue, solid or tonal. And, finally, I AM a lace maniac and proud of it. Aloha... Bev