unikatissima’s Lace Poinsettia
You can find on this page:
An Introduction | Versions of the pattern | The placemats | About the pattern | About the finished items | Deutsche Version | The daily instructions | More pictures
This year I designed a tablerunner that you can knit on the 24 days of Advent, every day a little bit.
In case that you don’t need a tablerunner simply knit a scarf :)
The picture is extra small – it gives you just an idea of what you will knit but (hopefully ;-)) don’t spoil the surprise.(And if you’re curious: there are more pictures ;-))
By the way, the whole pattern was made with the YouKnits lace basic set :)
Versions of the pattern
- This year I present the pattern in two versions:
- Version ‘stockinette/garter’:
that’s how I knitted the tablerunner and this version has only knit stitches between the rows of holes, in the back rows you can decide whether you always knit (stockinette) or always purl (garter) and - Version ‘knit-purl’:
that’s how I knitted the scarf and there I filled the areas between the rows of holes alternately with knit stitches and purl stitches. - Additionally I present at ravelry – so to speak in passing – the patterns of six placemats matching the tablerunner:
Download the placemats pattern (PDF ~ 2,2 MB)
About the pattern:
* This year the pattern is ‘complete’, i.e. not meant to be repeated in height or width.
* The pattern is
– 51 stitches wide (without edge stitches),
– needs at least 2 edge stitches extra and
– the total length are 482 rows.
* It is made symmetrical, so if you think that it is
– too wide, leave out the same number of stitches at begin and end of every row and
– too long, leave out the same number of rows at the begin and end.
The following items would e.g. look beautiful:
– from day 2 row 5 to day 23 row 18 = 434 rows
– from day 3 row 9 to day 22 row 14 = 386 rows
– from day 6 row 13 to day 19 row 9 = 258 rows
About the finished items:
Please bear in mind: the size always depends on your gauge and also on the way you knit – I’m always knitting very loosely.
For the tablerunner I
* knitted about 575 m white cotton crochet thread (100 g ca. 580 m)
(575 m are about 629 yards – 580 m are about 635 yards) with
* 4 mm needles
* in the version ‘stockinette/garter‘ of the pattern and
* got a tablerunner of about 28 x 166 cm without garter border and
(28 x 166 cm are about 11 x 65 inches)
* of about 30 x 168 cm with a border of
8 rows garter stitch at the begin and end and
4 stitches garter stitch at the begin and end of every row
(30 x 168 cm are about 12 x 66 inches).
Depending on my daily energie I knitted a daily pattern section in 30 – 35 min.
For the scarf I
* knitted about 515 m acrylic yarn (200 g ca. 665 m) (Belday Hit Handarbeitsgarn, dark pink)
(515 m are about 563 yards – 665 m are about 727 yards) with
* 4 mm needles
* in the version ‘knit-purl’ of the pattern and
* got a scarf of about 30 x 156 cm without garter border and
(30 x 156 cm are about 12 x 61 inches)
* of about 35 x 160 cm with a border of
8 rows garter stitch at the begin and end and
4 stitches garter stitch at the begin and end of every row
(35 x 160 cm are about 14 x 63 inches).
Depending on my daily energie I knitted a daily pattern section in 35 – 40 min.
For every placemat I
* knitted about 90 m white cotton crochet thread (100 g ca. 580 m)
(90 m are about 99 yards – 580 m are about 635 yards) with
* 4 mm needles
* in the version ‘stockinette/garter‘ of the pattern and
* got placemats of about 28 x 20 cm without garter border and
(28 x 20 cm are about 11 x 8 inches)
* of about 30 x 22 cm with a border of
6 rows garter stitch at the begin and end and
3 stitches garter stitch at the begin and end of every row
(30 x 22 cm are about 12 x 9 inches).
I knitted a placemat in barely 2 hours.
Deutsche Version:
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The daily instructions:
Please note, that you agree to my terms of use (PDF ~50 KB) by using my patterns.
You can get Lace Poinsettia now as single file or – as in Advent 2012 – download the daily instructions:
Lace Poinsettia as single file
download version ‘stockinette/garter’ as single file (PDF ~445 KB)
download version ‘knit-purl’ as single file (PDF ~420 KB)
Lace Poinsettia as daily instructions
More pictures
(clicking on a picture ‘sends’ you to Lace poinsettia at ravelry where the pictures are larger)
Sounds like a really fun project! I would love to participate!
Reina,
you’re welcome, simply come here every day from Dec 1, 2012 on, every day another ‘little door’ to the instructions will open :)
I love this idea, and will try to keep up and give it a try, G.
Georgia,
great :)
Enjoy!
You have open the dance!
Thank you
Night,
:)))
Enjoy the Advent – and your knitting of course ;-)
Loving the advent scarf – only frustration is having to wait until lunchtime to get the day’s pattern here in Australia!
Helen,
I’m very glad that you like it – and I’d never have figured that globalisation could lead to such a disadvantage ;-)
Thank you so much for the pattern. May you have a Happy and Peaceful Christmas, and a prosperous New Year. :)
Thanks a lot for these patterns <3. I wish you a nice Christmas and a Happy New Year 2013.
Catlady and Lottie,
thank you for your kind wishes, which I want to give back from my heart :)