Stolen Stitches » shrug http://www.stolenstitches.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:22:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Summer Affair from the Wedding http://www.stolenstitches.com/2009/08/summer-affair-from-the-wedding/ http://www.stolenstitches.com/2009/08/summer-affair-from-the-wedding/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:08:49 +0000 carol http://www.stolenstitches.com/?p=336 I’ve been very lax in my blogging over the last few weeks. Our summer holiday is drawing to an end here, and while I like the laziness of not rushing every morning with the boys we all seem to be going a little nuts from too much time in the house! They will all be in school again on Monday, and my smallest will be starting every morning in pre-school. This now means that I will have several hours every morning to focus on design work…I’m trying not to let myself get too excited!

I haven’t yet shared some photos of my sister wearing ‘Summer Affair‘ for her wedding. She looked really beautiful, and the shrug didn’t look too bad either!

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The latest addition to my self-published patterns has just been added ‘Summer Affair‘.  This laceweight shrug was knit for my sister’s wedding in a few weeks time.  I wanted to create something really special for her, but neither of us wear shawls.  However I really love shrugs.  So I set out to create a pattern that has all of the pleasure of lace knitting, delicate and open but creates a piece that is very wearable.

The shrug is constructed as a simple lace rectangle, the sleeve are grafted together and then the shrug opening is knit from the live stitches you have left on your needle.  For added effect a ruffle is knitted at the back of the shrug with short rows.

I hope you all enjoy knitting this!

The photo below is my favourite, I love the shadow from the lace on the dress!

Summer Affair detail

Summer Affair detail

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