20. Parisian Lace

The wagon wheel motif along the lower edge gives "Parisian Lace" a strikingly different look. The garter stitch design also features a stockingnet horizontal lozenge shape and a row of ladder eyelets along the upper edge. The stitch count rises from 17 to 21 by the end of the fourth row. One of the added stitches is worked off in row 7 and the remainder are bound off in the final row of the 10-row repeat.

You can download the full-size chart, verbal instructions and notes here.

Next time: Oak Leaf

19. Knitted Lace (Wide)

"Knitted Lace (Wide)" is aptly named. It is over twice as wide as its nearest challenger among the edgings we have seen to date. I have knit all of the samples with the same fingering weight cotton on 2.25mm needles. Each of the other edgings has fallen into one of three groups: just under 1", 1¼"-1½" and 2"-2½". By comparison, Knitted Lace (Wide) comes in at a whopping 5¾"!

The design has two rows of faggoting alternating with two rows of single eyelets along the upper edge, and garter stitch triangles separated by multiple diagonal rows of eyelets running down into the saw-tooth lower edge. The stitch count steadily rises from 31 to 47 before the added stitches are bound off in the final row of the 34-row repeat. The bind-off is achieved by knitting two stitches together, replacing the stitch on the left needle and repeating the process until only the original 31 stitches remain.

You can download the full-size chart, verbal instructions and notes here.

I absolutely love the selvage created in this pattern. I have always slipped the first stitch of every row, thinking that the best option for a neat selvage. But here you knit to the last stitch of each row and bring the yarn forward before slipping it. The result resembles a line of knit stitches running up the side of the piece, not unlike a bound-off edge.

So exquisitely even, definitely a technique after this perfectionist's heart! I can see that this method will loom large in my future for any project not knit in the round.

Like Making Knitted Edging and Another Pretty Pattern before, this design was submitted by S.G.H. of Monmouth IL for publication in the newspaper.

Next week: Parisian Lace

18. Double Diamond

"Double Diamond" is a variation of a previous pattern, 6. Torchon Edge. In this version

• there is only one knit stitch instead of two after the yarn over at the end of each right side row
  
• the yarn overs are purled on the next row
  
• and, as the name suggests, the top of the solid diamonds are framed with two rows of eyelets instead of one
  

The garter stitch edging begins with a stitch count of 9, increases one stitch every right side row to 12, and then steadily decreases to the original number in the course of the 12-row repeat.

You can download the full-size chart, verbal instructions and notes here.

Next time: Knitted Lace (Wide)

17. Lace Edging

"Lace Edging" features faggoting along the upper edge and a row of widely spaced large eyelets against a garter stitch ground. The pattern gains 2 stitches in the first row and returns to the original number in the last of the 6-row repeat. However, as with 12. Tunician Lace, the contour of the lower edge is not affected by the stitch count change, because the first stitch of the row is slipped before the extra stitches are bound off inside the edge.

You can download the full-size chart, verbal instructions and notes here.

Next week: Double Diamond

16. English Point

"English Point" is a garter stitch edging with two rows of ladder eyelets on either side of a panel of eyelets arranged in diagonal lines. These lines are again echoed in the saw-tooth lower edge. The stitch count rises from 15 to 18 before returning to the original number in the last row of the 8-row repeat.

You can download the full-size chart, verbal instructions and notes here.

The design was published in a newspaper with the note "This pretty pattern is contributed by Mrs. W.L. Gallaudet."

Next week: Lace Edging