Lace diamond (1843)
StitcheIntermediatePublic domain · 1843
A network of diamonds drawn with yarn overs, from an English handbook of 1843.
Miss Lambert describes it in eleven rows, repeated from the fourth. We turned it into an 8-row chart that gives exactly the same sequence of rows.
Every yarn over is balanced by a decrease in the same row, so the stitch count never changes.
Good to know
- Add one or two edge stitches on each side, knitted on every row.
- Block the piece wet to open up the lace.
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Source
My Knitting Book, Miss Lambert, 1843. Project Gutenberg.
What we modernised
- Rows reordered as a chart, period terms replaced ("bring the thread forward" = yo, "pearl" = purl).
Chart
Multiple of 8 stitches · 8 rows
Read the chart from bottom to top. Right-side rows are read from right to left, wrong-side rows from left to right. Each square is one stitch as seen from the right side.
Key
- Knit on RS, purl on WS
- Yarn over (yo)
- k2tog (on WS: p2tog)
- sk2p: slip 1, k2tog, pass slipped stitch over
Written instructions
- Row 1 (RS) : *yo, k5, yo, sk2p; repeat from * to end
- Rows 2, 4, 6 and 8 (WS) : purl all stitches
- Row 3 (RS) : *k2tog, k3, k2tog, yo, k1, yo; repeat from * to end
- Row 5 (RS) : *k2tog, k1, k2tog, yo, k3, yo; repeat from * to end
- Row 7 (RS) : *yo, k3, yo, k2tog, k1, k2tog; repeat from * to end