| Are you a knitter who can't knit a pattern without | | | | Feeling edgy. |
| changing something? Me, too. Perhaps the original | | | | Ever get that antsy feeling of wanting more? |
| designer's urge to create a new pattern rubs off | | | | Ever since clapping eyes on the pattern, I wanted |
| on us as we knit. Lots of people have made The | | | | either more doily or a different edge--more edge. |
| Little Flower Doily by Bad Cat Designs out of all | | | | Turns out it took not one, but two edgings. |
| kinds of yarn. Most used the original edging of big | | | | After knitting the doily body, I added two rounds |
| crocheted loops that block out like airy petals. | | | | of yarn over, knit two together, each followed |
| Nice, but here's what I did different. | | | | with a round of plain knitting. It's a super stretchy |
| First off, the pattern as written made me want | | | | pattern used in a market bag, so no worries it |
| to cast on. Why? Because it was knitted. I | | | | might constrict the lace. Then what? Another |
| wanted some practice making a knitted doily | | | | round? Bind off? Neither seemed right somehow. |
| pattern before I turn a vintage crocheted doily | | | | All ruffled up. |
| pattern into a knitted version. | | | | My EZ's pi shawl had a sideways garter stitch |
| Roughing it. | | | | edge versus a tight bind off, so I tried that. Five |
| The pattern calls for smooth fingering weight | | | | stitches made a splendid edge for the doily, but |
| yarn. So of course a vintage skein of a | | | | ate up yarn like a hungry piglet. There was |
| rough-textured cotton/acrylic blend yarn called | | | | nowhere near enough yarn left for such a wide |
| Bermuda, made in France, fell into my hands. It | | | | edging. |
| was bright white, thicker than the yarn called for | | | | Three stitches worked. The edge in no way |
| and needed a loving squeeze each time I laid eyes | | | | constricted the lace as established, but it might be |
| on it. Let's see what happened. | | | | a little too ruffly. Before blocking, the edge ruffled |
| As I began knitting, the raggedness seemed | | | | all on its own. While blocking, it laid smooth in a |
| rather steam punk. In black, it would please the | | | | series of points. After blocking it needs patted |
| Make crowd who transform manufactured | | | | down to lay flat. |
| garments into unique expressions of art. | | | | Design fail? |