moonflower lace bookmark
This bookmark pattern was the most challenging so far. I've done 6 others. One of the challenging parts was remembering that I'm knitting most of it in a reverse stockingnette stitch, so that purls are in the front and knit stitches are the wrong side. This makes the rib stitches that make up the stem of the flower and the ribs in the leaves really stand out. The back side looks nice, too. Another challenging part of this pattern was learning the correct way to YO or yarn over between knit and purl stitches. If you don't do it the correct way, your yarn holes will close up. The finished pattern can be found on Ravelry for free. One more challenge was translating the chart from my pencil and graph paper to a table with knitting symbols in Pages. By now, I'm getting almost as good at typing in knitting symbols as I am at typing letters! I got lots of practice with this one. The pattern is adapted from one in the book, The Essentia...