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: