One of the Ravelry knitters who is testing knitting my yarn is currently working on a lace sweater using Elliebelly Chemise, the sport weight linen and silk blend. I used this yarn to knit my Mithril Sweater earlier this year.
But Gail is using the yarn in a very different pattern than the one I chose, defined by columns of lace, called The Secret Life of Trees. It's exciting to see the yarn used successfully for such a different purpose.
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This fragment gives you some idea of how the lace patterning looks.
And here's a full sleeve. Even unblocked, you can see the lace pattern and tell that the linen yarn is perfect here.
© GGailG
Gail is one of those fabulously experienced knitters who seems to be able to pull off complicated patterns with the same ease with which I would knit a garter stitch scarf. You should take a look at her projects on Ravelry (in the link to her name). In particular, her lace shawls are incredibly beautiful.
I often buy yarn because it looks beautiful in the skein. Thanks to knitters like Gail, I'm getting a much better sense of how those beautiful skeins knit up and what they most want to become. There is definitely a lacey project in Chemise coming in my future!
