Shaping Lace: Decreasing

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Jen_nassif — Sun, 06 May 2012 01:22:07 GMT

Thank you!!!!

Starting lace section of Apres Surf Hoodie. Your blog has helped me twice now.

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MirandaJ@2 — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:11:00 GMT

Hi Sandy,

thanks for the tips but still not able to get any help from a few posts i asked for help from, so wondered if there was any way to get more help, or some answer to how i manage to finish this lace sweater.?? for some reason am not able to comprehend the proper way to get the pattern to do the right thing for me and stay correct with the lace so feeling very frustrated and upset because feel so helpless with not being able to work it out. But my brain wont compute it properly, and no one else has been able to help me out. Had written the pattern out for a member, but it looks like she is either not able to work it out, or has not the time for my trivial problem.

would really appreciate any help and wondered if i cut and paste the pattern would it be of help, providing i can do that.

Thanks for any help and assistance. MirandaJ.

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Christina in CT — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:55:56 GMT

Sandi - I am working on the back of a lace pattern summer cardigan and found your information very helpfful - after ripping out about 3 inches of shoulder shaping now 3 times since it didn't really look right. I've heard the tip about simply using plain stockinette stiches for the "extras" until you reach the pattern stiches, but this gave me way too much border than I wanted - from 2 stiches to 5. But in looking at your explaination it is getting clearer - except when you commented on "ignoring the yarn over" The pattern is 1st row K3 {K1P1K1 in one stich, K1} K2 and then 2nd row P2 [YO, P4 together] end with P2 and 2rd row - K Across. So are you saving to simply knit the YO stich when you come to it? My decreases are on every 4th row. ChristinainCT

Shaping Lace: Increasing

Knitting Daily — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:44:40 GMT

On Monday, we talked about decreasing in lace; today, we'll talk about increasing in a lace pattern

Shaping Lace: Increasing

Knitting Daily — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:44:40 GMT

On Monday, we talked about decreasing in lace; today, we'll talk about increasing in a lace pattern

re: Shaping Lace: Decreasing

Comment Archive — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:50:20 GMT

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Comment by: M. M | May 12, 2008

Okay, I am a bit confused by the detailed lace decreases for clarity's sake. How do you make decreases at the end of the row? It appears to only be on one side of the garment. Do you purl two together on the wrong side?

Comment by: Lana | May 12, 2008

Hey, could you also cover how to seam together the pieces of a lace sweater? I have a lot of trouble getting a nice seam when the pieces have all these holes.

Comment by: Cathy Dowd | May 12, 2008

This is so timely for me. I have a stalled top because I didn't plan the whole thing first. I started a lace pattern in the round, intending to change to plain stockinette with a bit of the pattern going up the center when I got to the part where I join the sleeves to the body. If I continue on the same number of stitches, isn't the st part goint to be wider than the rest of the body?

I could just jump in and try, couldn't I? But I'm not as fearless as I thought. Any advice?

Comment by: Merna S | May 12, 2008

what about the other way, increases? I understand having less of the lace and looking OK, but if you're adding MORE, what do you add so it doesn't look funny?

Comment by: Emma A | May 12, 2008

this is a great subject! I too would like to know how to seam a lace item, have had similar problems as Cathy. ALSO, how do you know when just changes gauge is suitable, and when you need to decrease. As a intermediate knitter I'm not sure I'll know until I've done rows and rows and they look bad and have to be frogged! MaryL

Comment by: | May 13, 2008

Seaming lace would be a great topic! I hate seaming anything -my knitting looks great-my seaming is a struggle and I'm never satisfied.

Comment by: Shirley S | May 13, 2008

Sandi -

Great job as usual! I have a question though. If I need to add in a new yarn when making lace, how do I do that to make it look seamless and pretty - I don't want any weird bumps if I'm using tiny, pretty yarn!

Thanks for any help you can recommend :-)

Comment by: cfbandit | May 13, 2008

Thanks for the Lace post. Am a new knitter, but intrigued by lace. Just finished my first lace shawl. What a relief from garter stitch. Any and all info regarding lace is welcome.

Comment by: Susan T | May 13, 2008

I'm going to FORCE myself to read this again and understand it! as this is exactly where I became stuck when attempting to decrease a lace styled pattern cardigan last year! (I flung it in back of cupboard vowing never to look at lace again, but maybe if I UNDERSTOOD what I was doing, I'd manage rather better!!). Thanks for an interesting article and for taking the trouble to write it out in full for the more nervous of us (me!) to feel we can tackle! Sue

Comment by: | May 14, 2008

Thank you! This topic has been timely for me, too! However, here's my question: When you bind off in a lace stitch, do you knit each stitch as it appears in the pattern (ie: k1, bo1, k2tog, bo1, yo, bo1)? I hope this makes sense-- When I did this on the current pattern I'm working on for the sleeve shaping, the stitch count comes out okay, but the shaping looks kind of crazy. Thanks!

Comment by: kathy g | May 14, 2008

Hi,

I really enjoyed the lace shaping article. Would the same principles apply when decreasing a pattern that includes diamond-shaped "bobbles"? 25 years ago, in England, I threw such a project into a closet in sheer frustration with the arm hole shaping! And now it has been returned to me by my Mum! I'd love to solve this mystery...Thanks!

Comment by: Heidi P | May 14, 2008

I can't even look at that picture -- all those copyright notices are making me dizzy. So this article won't help me very much.

Comment by: Kathy F | May 15, 2008