I’ve been wanting to tackle a big lace project lately, and an upcoming formal event seemed like the perfect occasion. As it would happen, I found a great black and white dress to wear, and I had some beautiful burgundy wool/silk fingering yarn to use. I decided on Laminaria (Ravelry Pattern Link), because I’ve had my eye on it recently and it matches my dress well.
Overall, I was really happy with this project – it’s by far my most challenging knit yet. I messed up the charts and had to frog so many times, but it was worth it in the end. I also ran out of yarn during the bind off, even after I frogged and re-knit the entire edging to conserve yarn. I eliminated the double YOs in conservation and ended up leaving those even after I finally purchased some yarn from another Raveler, as it is no longer available for purchase. Another major change that I made was using SSSKs instead of K3togs for all of the star stitches on the repeats before the center – a lot of other knitters have made this change, and it results in symmetric stars around the center.
Finally, here are some pictures before and after blocking!
