Spend a day at a knitting friendsplace. How great!!! Sheś got the pistilised book. Fantastic inspiration and I really got somewhere with the dress.

Here is the middle part:

The leaves will have cables around them and there will be a flower at the bottom of each. There's this pattern in the modern book of lace knitting 2, with falling leaves and circles. THat will be the rest of the skirt. And I thought the top might be cables with lots of yarnovers in some sort of pattern, got to think about that for a while still. And how I would make it at the sleaves. I know Iwant pointy edges, that's about all.

And this is how far I got at the total so far:


At the bottom will be a pattern from Knitting lace of estonia (lace edge pattern 7), and the edge will be from a gathering of lace (mediteranian lace)

Next week I am going to a weddingdress shop, where they design the dress for you. I hope they will be able to help me with sizing and fitting. I also need a dress underneath the lace, otherwise I'd be a bit too sexy ;).



Still knitting as much as possible on the green skirt. Getting along well, but much slower this week. I got sore hands and arms. Overdone it a bit in the first week :( I am as carefull as possible now.

This is what I got up to:


row 150! only 100 to go now. They're getting long quickly though, it's amazing how many stiches there are on a row now! at the end there should be about 1600.I wonder how long it would take me to knit that many. The other day I knitted 300 in the train, thats about 5-7 minutes I think. So this last row should take half an hour at least!

Yesterday some samples arived from colormart. They're really lovely. I love the cornflower cashmere/silk. Knitted up the sample to see what it would look like. First I knitted on 4mm, then on 3,5mm. What a difference, about half the size. I like the 3,5 better though, the yo and stitches are better balanced. I wonder how much yarn I'd need for the dress, they haven't been able to help me yet. I probably should;ve measured the lenght of the yarn before I made the swatches. Perhaps weight would be ok too. but I'll use many different patterns, so who knows how much Ill need.

anyway, here are the two swatches, being blocked:

The pattern ideas

As I said I've been thinking about the design. I've come up with two ideas so far.
1. the singlet with skirt, grafted together, but afterwards I could take them apart again and wear them seperatly.
2. the coat, I have to show the pictures of what I mean.

Here are some sketches I've made so far:

Back and front of the "coat"
I would need to knit these sections and put them together afterwards:


I hope you can see them, they're pretty light.

The advantage is that using the lace at the back and a bit of smocking at the sides, I could control the fit quite acuratly, without changing the design. This would be nice as I do change bodyshape like all people. The disadvantage is that it would be harder to change the dress so I could wear it to any occasion and it would be just hanging in the closet most of the time, wasting away.

Perhaps I could make a combination though, have lace fitting at the back of the singlet part and just have a round skirt underneath.

the skirt

To try out what a knitted skirt would look like, I started knitting the "sun ray design" tablecloth, from the first book on modern lace knitting (Maianne Kinzel).
I am using Annell cotton and knitted the first half with one ball. I would probably need 3 balls, but most likely 3 balls and 10m, so I need to buy a forth. There is 550m on 100g.

Here's a picture of what I've done so far:






















Can't wait to have it finished!

the start

whoohooo! I am getting married!!! 23rd of may 2010.

And, being an addicted knitter, I will knit my own dress. In this blog I tell you how. As I always get free patterns of the interwebz, I post them free here as well. They'll probably will need lots of adapting anyway. I hope you will enjoy my journey to the most perfect weddingdress as much as I will :D



So: hereś the start. I am thinking about what I want. I knit lace and love it, so it will be a lacedress. I've looked around on the interwebz and haven't found many examples unfortunatly.

Here is a nice stole:
http://www.susanreishusdesigns.com/

a 1930s long very fine one, 'Marina' from Minerva Knitting:

and one a 1970s hooded cape by Golden Hands. This one has the pattern available for free, if you email the blogwriter.

http://celticmemoryyarns.blogspot.com/2006/08/newsflash-other-crafts-claim-equal.html (scroll down)

And here a few more:
http://nibsblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/knitted-wedding-dresses/

But non of this is what I want. Not that I really know what I want. At the moment I am making a skirt, much like the one in the right top corner (from the first book of modern lace knitting, Marianne Kinzel):
I pretty much use the same pattern, exept that I leave a much larger opening at the centre, obviously, to fit my body. I bought some really nice cotton for it and can't wait to see how it falls. if it is nice, I might use the same to knit the dress with. It had two gorgues shades of blue. I want a blue dress, with a cream dress underneath. The skirt I am making is green.

However, I don't know yet whether I like cotton. In itself, the feel is not as soft as wool. I probably prefer wool, but that has a risk of streching too much. Today I also bought a cotton, which is coated in silk and microfibre. Really nice and soft. But it doesn't knit up nicely, the yarn is too thick and wire-like.

Tomorrow I'll go to another woolshop, with a friend who is an expert as well, perhaps more than I am. Hopefully they'll have more like what I want.



I have made up another design. That one would have buttons up the front part, just like the cape shown above. It would also have a lace back, like this:
I dont't know how to call it. I would have this to ensure a nice fit, while being able to put on the dress by stepping into it. I wouldn't want to put on the dress over my head, imagen the hair!!!!

It would end up being two panels for the sides and fixed to it, but looks like it's underneath, a front and backpanel.












Oh, and if it gets chilly, I want this weddingring shawl:









Thank god I still got one year!!!!