Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Gothic lace pattern




From a very old knitter dictionary from my great aunts collection:




The Gothic lace pattern:

Multiple of 8 stitches plus 1.

special abbreviations:
SKP: slip 1 knit 1, pass the slipped stitch over
S2KP: Slip 2 stitches as if to work knit 2 together, knit1, pass slipped stitces over
YO: Yarn over




Row 1: *K1, YO, SKP,K3, K2tog, YO; repeat from * to last stitch, K1
Row 2: Purl
Row 3: *K2, YO, SKP, K1 ,K2tog, YO, K1; repeat from * to last stitch, K1
Row4:Purl
Row 5: *K1, YO, SKP, YO, S2KP, YO, K2tog, YO; repeat from * to last stitch, K1
Row 6: Purl
Row 7: *K2, YO, SKP, K1, K2tog, YO, K1; repeat from * to last stitch, K1
Row 8: Purl
Row 9: *K3, YO, S2KP, YO, K2; repeat from * to last stitch, K1
Row 10: Purl
Row 11: *K1, K2tog, K1, YO,K1, YO, K1, SKP;repeat from * to last stitch, K1
Row 12: Purl
Row 13: * K1, K2tog, K1, YO, K1 YO, K1, SKP; repeat from * to last stitch K1
Row 14: Purl
Row 15:* K1, K2tog, K1, YO, K1 YO, K1,SKP; repeat from * to last stitch K1
Row 16: Purl
Row 17: * K1, YO, SKP, K3, K2tog, YO, K1; repeat from * to last stitch, K1
Row 18: Purl
Row 19: *K2, YO, SKP, K1, K2tog, YO, K1; repeat from * to last stitch, K1
Row 20: Purl
Row 21: * K1, YO, SKP, YO, S2KP, YO, K2tog, YO; repeat from * to last stitch, K1
Row 22: Purl
Row 23: *K2, YO, SKP,K1,K2tog, YO, K1; repeat from * to last stitch, K1
Row 24: Purl
Row 25: *K3, YO, S2KP, YO, K2: repeat from * to last stitch, K1
Row 26: Purl
repeat these 26 rows


Enjoy:
best wishes and happy stitches,
mandie



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