Knitting Lace: A Workshop with Patterns and Projects based on a sampler from the Brooklyn Museum by Susanna E. Lewis

Knitted lace has long been admired for its elegance and intricacy. Within this book, knitting expert Susanna E. Lewis shows you how to master this beautiful technique. Using patterns she's deciphered from a 19th-century lace sampler in The Brooklyn Museum, Lewis reintroduces long-lost lace designs and makes them accessible to knitters of all skill levels. With this antique sampler as the basis for a thorough workshop, Lewis shares all the keys to knitting lace: how various lace patterns are constructed, how to decipher the pattern of an existing lace and how to incorporate knitted lace into garment patterns. Included are complete written and charted instructions for all 91 patterns in the antique sampler, full instructions for four projects - a shawl, a sweater, a girl's dress and socks - that show you how to use lace in garment patterns, detailed instruction on how to design and chart your own lace patterns and information for machine knitters on converting the hand-knitting charts for use on the machine.

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