French printed Barège shawls (two yards square and named after a village in the Pyrenees) were very popular. It is possible that Miss Lambert’s Barège pattern had come from France but just as likely that she was trying to emulate a current fashion as knitting.1
I’ve been knitting late each evening, working on Miss Lambert’s Spider’s-web shawl in the half hexagon size.
I added this book to my knitting library after reading Grumperina’s preview. I was sure I’d knit the Myrtle Leaf Shawl as my first lace project from the book, but I couldn’t stop looking at the Barège pattern by Miss Lambert. Shown in three different sizes (full hexagon, half hexagon and fichu) and three different yarns, I couldn’t resist the beauty of this stitch. I tend to overlook things like, say, knitting 117 rows of simple ray shaping to actually get to the pattern. I’ll finish Chart B tonight and should be ready to start knitting the Barège pattern tomorrow evening using size 5.5 mm needles. (The half hexagon pattern requires multiple needles sizes, going up a needle size for each chart.) The yarn is silk merino hand painted lace from Yarnahoy's Etsy store in color Chocolate Cinnamon.
Thank you Jacqueline and Stephanie for hosting this kal.
Happy Knitting, Brooke
Cross-posted at my blog.
1 Victorian Lace Today, pg. 45
3 comments:
I love reading about a pattern, the yarn used, needles used and knitting the pattern. I passed this shawl by and now I'm totally interested in knitting this. thanks for posting.
Jan
I love the color. Can't wait to see more.
It looks beautiful. I hope to get to this shawl someday myself, but I am going to start with a smaller project. The color is gorgeous.
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