melon lace

[wasabi_poptart]

I may be kicked out of the Lace Club for saying this (first rule of Lace Club is, never talk about Lace Club) but it is just so fricking easy. Really. It is. Here's that melon stitch (appropriately rendered in Midori green mohair in Victorian Lace Today), here done in a shiny gray cotton worsted I found in a box somewhere in my dining room:







See how it's done? You knit six stitches stockinette for five rows, then on the sixth row you pull the 4th, 5th, and 6th stitches over the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd stitches, then yarn over, knit 1, yarn over, knit 2, yarn over.

The spacer between the columns is simply knit 2, yarn over, knit 2 together each row.

Nah, you know what's hard? Finding specific words in Arabic calligraphy. Anybody know Arabic?

Comments

[sgda.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous! Regardless of how "easy" it is (ha!) I'm pretty sure I could never do that, even if I did learn how to knit. I can only assume it requires patience and attention to detail.

[wasabi-poptart.livejournal.com]

It's more of a rhythm you get going in your head.

Like, for the repeat between the little melon balls, it's knit, knit, yarn over, knit two together, which always feels to me like the little four-note riff at the end of the Door's song "Touch Me."

[astronautical.livejournal.com]

I love lace knitting. I think back on old glitter you were really great and told me to just try it, even though I'd never really knit anything before. I tell everyone who wants to learn to knit that they should lurk on a lace knitting list for a while because they will learn SO MUCH about how the different stitches construct your piece!

[wasabi-poptart.livejournal.com]

it goes so quick, too! instant gratification.