{"id":10336,"date":"2012-04-16T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=10336"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:49:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:49:36","slug":"a-swaddling-of-lace-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=10336","title":{"rendered":"A Swaddling of lace&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or a swathing of lace. I had packed a number of scarves in a carryall in preparation for picture taking.&nbsp; My daughter said that she would be my model, so I wasted no time!&nbsp; This window of&nbsp; a good mood can close quickly.&nbsp; Anyway, the carryall lay on the floor&#8230;waiting. At one point I took a look at it and somehow wanted to dive in or wrap myself in all this finery.&nbsp; Even in a pedestrian black canvas bag, the lace looked rich and elegant, another world, an escape from this one&#8230;a little like, through the looking glass, or the door at the back of the cupboard that opens to a Narnia.&nbsp; If I put on some lace&#8230;a lot of lace&#8230;will I be transported?<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/lace2-1.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"273\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/lace2-1.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Here are the scarves.&nbsp; They are actually most of my winter lace knitting, which was interspersed by the knitting for a new pattern line in fingering yarn that has nothing to do with lace &#8211; more on that later. Here they are one by one.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/copper3-1-scaled.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/copper3-1-scaled.jpg\" width=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nThis is Copper Beech, a design based on the bark of the Copper Beech tree.&nbsp; My daughter is having a word with a copper beech, as we speak \ud83d\ude42 or write or read&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sycamore2-1.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sycamore2-1.jpg\" width=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nThe second is Sycamore Scarf, from the bark of the Sycamore tree &#8211; a gorgeous marbled coat.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/birch4-1-scaled.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/birch4-1-scaled.jpg\" width=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nLast of the &#8220;Bark Scarves&#8221; is Birch Scarf.&nbsp; I was fascinated with the V shapes of the branches in the clump birches.&nbsp; The fringe and the picot edge is a nod to the &#8220;paper&#8221; that peels off the bark of the birch tree.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/blossom-1.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/blossom-1.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nNext is Blossom.&nbsp; This will be a free pattern of the Queen Anne&#8217;s Lace Knitting website.&nbsp; It is a sample knit in Rayanna, our 100% rayon yarn &#8211; very &#8220;swishy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/snowy1-1-scaled.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/snowy1-1-scaled.jpg\" width=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nFinally Snowy Evening Scarf.&nbsp; This was part of the KAL and I have finally got a decent picture to add to the pattern.&nbsp; Of course winter is over &#8211; I said that in a whisper because as all Canadians know, if you say it too loudly, it snows!!<\/p>\n<p>Wear lace and forget about this world!!!<\/p>\n<p>Have a coddled day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or a swathing of lace. I had packed a number of scarves in a carryall in preparation for picture taking.&nbsp; My daughter said that she would be my model, so I wasted no time!&nbsp; This window of&nbsp; a good mood can close quickly.&nbsp; Anyway, the carryall lay on the floor&#8230;waiting. At one point I took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10343,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336\/revisions\/10343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}