The Haapsalu Shawl: Rhapsody in Knitting

re: The Haapsalu Shawl: Rhapsody in Knitting

Catherine Momsen — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:18:28 GMT

Where can I buy the book, "The Haapsalu Shawl: Rapsody in Knitting"? I can't find it anywhere.

clmomsen@wi.rr.com

re: The Haapsalu Shawl: Rhapsody in Knitting

galician — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:19:55 GMT

I love the Queen Silvia pattern. In fact I just knit that shawl this summer and it turned out beautifully. However, the nupps do slow you down some even when you get the hang of them.

re: The Haapsalu Shawl: Rhapsody in Knitting

Elaine T — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:49:18 GMT

THanks. I'm thinking this new book would be better, then. I almost never make someone else's pattern. And I do have a downloaded pattern from the Bush book. I think I'll knit it, to work through the shawl construction properly, then get the new book so I can design my own.

re: The Haapsalu Shawl: Rhapsody in Knitting

MariaP@2 — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:20:49 GMT

Hi, Elaine,

both of the books "Haapsalu sall" ("Haapsalu shawl" in Estonian language) and also Nancys book "Knitting lace of Estonia" belong to me.

I'm glad, I've both of them, cause Nancys book helped me a little to understand the other one. Only the chart key in the Estonian edition is written in english.

But I'm glad with the "Haapsalu sall" in general. It's such a huge ressorce of lace knitting pattern with cobweb yarns, I prefer to knit with.

No full shawl pattern describtion, you can create your own shawls.

And on top, if your having the "Pitsilised Koekirjad" from Leili Reimann (also in estonian; editions from 1976/1987) like myself, then your lace library is really great, I guess.

On ravelry there are two groups, I'm a member, who knit estonian and discuss the books. It's "Estonian knitting- estlandse breitechnieken" and "Knitting Estonia".

Maybe this is helpin' a bit.

Happy knitting to all with the lovely "Haapsalu shawl".

re: The Haapsalu Shawl: Rhapsody in Knitting

Elaine T — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:47:29 GMT

Is it possible for someone to compare this book to Nancy Bush's Knitted Lace of Estonia? I can only afford one of them, and have only seen the Bush book in person (so far).

re: The Haapsalu Shawl: Rhapsody in Knitting

Imbira — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:48:06 GMT

Hi! You may want to correct the link to Interweave Store: the old link has Haapsula, but there shuld be Haapsalu (they have corrected it in the Store).

Really reccomend to buy this book! I'm knitting my first shawl, it's already so beautiful.

re: The Haapsalu Shawl: Rhapsody in Knitting

ChelseaD@5 — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:25:31 GMT

If I wanted to use the stitch patterns from the book (or any other stitch dictionary) to design a shawl and then sell that finished pattern (compliation of stitches and patterns), how would I know which stitch patterns were old enough to be copy-right free? ie. there are many Lily of the Valley patterns out there, so it would have to be "free domain"?

Thanks,

Chelsea

re: The Haapsalu Shawl: Rhapsody in Knitting

jean01 — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:05:05 GMT

When knitting lace, I find that there is usually a row that is simple - all knit or all purl. After knitting this row, take a tapestry needle and some smooth contrasting (color fast!!!) thread or yarn and slip this thread through each loop. If you are using a circular with a hole for a tightening key, you can string a long loop of thread through this hole and thread your lifeline as you knit the simple row.

Actually, a life line can be threaded through any row that you know has no mistakes but I find that a row with many YO's is tricky to pick up from a life line. If the lace pattern has no totally simple rows, then you'll just have to pick a row that you know how to pick up and thread a lifeline through that row.

Weaving around the stitches would not help as it would not stop that row from unraveling. Hope this helps.

re: The Haapsalu Shawl: Rhapsody in Knitting

Jan B. — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:42:13 GMT

I'd heard of running a thread of differently colored yarn to use as a go-back-to place when I get in trouble, as Kathleen mentioned today, but that didn't work when I was working in the bee stitch. Even if I can't pull out several rows at a time, I usually can "backstitch," undoing one stitch at a time--but not with the bee stitch! Is there a way to do that so I can perhaps get beyond the tenth row of an afghan without having to start all over?

re: The Haapsalu Shawl: Rhapsody in Knitting

ChristinaK — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:03:03 GMT

The shawl at the top and the lace pattern given are both gorgeous. I was wondering what is the pattern of the shawl at the top? It looks different from the Silvia pattern given. Also, I wish there were more pictures from the book. I am interested to see what the other patterns/scarves/shawls look like.

re: The Haapsalu Shawl: Rhapsody in Knitting

SandraG@10 — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:43:51 GMT

Lifeline! NOw you tell me! I knitted two lace scarves and attempted a lace wimple with so frogging and frustration that I gave it up. So do you just weave the "lifeline" back and forth around the stitches?

re: The Haapsalu Shawl: Rhapsody in Knitting

JoyceB — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:23:39 GMT

Any possibility of getting this in PDF format?

Thanks for sharing such a lovely pattern & a lovely story.