Finished Lace Tablecloth

[firstfrost]

Whee! I've been working on this for a while, finally blocked now. The color is hard to capture - sort of a smokey dark-grey-blue. It's for tallou and jofish22, who if I have set this up correctly cannot see this entry, so it should stil be a surprise when they unwrap it.

Comments

[kelkyag]

!!!

Is this the rose pattern you've done before? It looks different, but perhaps that's the color rather than the pattern.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

The pattern is Lyra, like this one (http://web.mit.edu/boojum/Pix/Knit/Lace/tn/lyra.jpg.html), not Tudor rose like this one (http://web.mit.edu/boojum/Pix/Knit/Lace/Rose/tn/rose2-1.jpg.html). Tudor Rose is an actual Serious Tablecloth; Lyra is more like a large end table doily.

[kelkyag]

Yeah, the Tudor Rose is the one I was thinking of. Would it be difficult to do fewer leaf-level repeats on the Tudor Rose to make it a less huge project? (Which is not to say that Lyra isn't cool, too.)

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Oops, I have mis-named it, it's officially called "Rose of England". But yeah, the actual pattern even comes in two sizes, tablecloth and tea cloth - here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/11852132@N04/2643872804) is someone's tea cloth. (The tea cloth has a more interesting outer border, too).