Let It Snow...

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"

J.B. Priestley

SNOWDRIFT
$6

SIZE:
16 in wide by 72 in long
(blocked)
MATERIALS:
3 skeins (780 yd) ARTYARNS Silk Rhapsody Glitter
or other dk/ light worsted weight yarn
size 7 (US) needles
cable needle
GAUGE:
4 stitches = 1 inch (blocked)
EXPERIENCE LEVEL
intermediate
Charted and Written Directions

I love how the waving lines (accomplished with simple decreases and yarn overs) look like the lines that skiers make when they ski powder.







See what I mean?

The stitches drift from side to side in neat little mounds.


While the little increase and decrease design between the lines reminds me of animal tracks in the snow.

The yarn is Artyarns Silk Rhapsody Glitter in white: a lovely blend with one strand mohair, one strand silk, and a razor thin filament of silver. The filament lends a lovely sparkle to the piece like sun on snow, but the pattern could easily be done with any white or ivory yarn and be equally lovely.

Knit with DK/light worsted yarn on size seven needles, this pattern is actually quite predictable and flies along once you get the hang of it.

I blocked mine hard to bring out the lace pattern.



Pattern available on sidebar at right.

That way>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Let it snow; let it snow; let it snow...