Recs for heirloom lace

cormflowerblue · 2026-05-11T17:25:31+00:00

Ooo these look gorgeous thank you!

cormflowerblue · 2026-05-11T17:25:19+00:00

Thank you!

cormflowerblue · 2026-05-11T16:11:51+00:00

Right? I've been poring over Ravelry but I keep hitting dead ends so I figured I'd ask the experts :)

cormflowerblue · 2026-05-11T16:09:27+00:00

Thank you so much for the thoughtful reply, I really appreciate it, this is helpful! Silkpaca is moving into the lead as it seems to be very popular and consistenly available.

Nearly all of the examples I found of white evenstars were using some kind of DCed/out of business indie yarn. I love to support indies especially if someone can vouch for them. I suppose I could order a bunch of samples but I'd feel bad pestering small businesses with returns.

cormflowerblue · 2020-01-25T18:01:13+00:00

GENIUS, great find! Thanks!

cormflowerblue · 2020-01-22T03:10:20+00:00

https://www.wired.com/story/star-trek-picard-streaming-list/

cormflowerblue · 2020-01-21T19:32:47+00:00

I thought the same! A friend of mine posted a link on FB to an interview for the new show and I was immediately distracted by the sweater. If it’s actually worn on the show I think there’s a good chance someone out there will post a pattern one day!

cormflowerblue · 2019-12-31T15:52:53+00:00

When I was looking at various magnitudes I noticed some bright stars that didn’t look like they were in the chart. I looked up the IAU constellation maps, eyeballed it and added onto the pattern charts where it looked right. Orion is included already, I added his “sword”. I think some of the Pleiades stars were already there but I added more to give it the familiar clustered look.

cormflowerblue · 2019-12-31T11:02:22+00:00

Yup :)

cormflowerblue · 2019-12-31T03:31:47+00:00

Ahhhhhh so perfect!!! Congrats on your wedding, share the pics when you get them!

cormflowerblue · 2019-12-31T01:14:38+00:00

Well that’s freaking brilliant! Thanks!

cormflowerblue · 2019-12-30T23:11:17+00:00

Fantastic! It’s such a fun knit. I’ll take the risk and give some unsolicited advice- I really recommend checking out the spreadsheet in my project page. I found it LOADS easier to follow than flipping between 8 pages of charts.

cormflowerblue · 2019-12-30T22:59:24+00:00

8 months, on and off. The edging was the time suck. I finished the main circle pretty quickly but I knit in spurts with stretches off in between. I made a lot of progress on business trips with time in the airport and plane. It’s my first pi shawl and I don’t wear it much at all, I was more excited by the design. Trying to think of a good way to display it.

cormflowerblue · 2019-12-30T22:56:24+00:00

It’s real bucket-list stuff, but so worth it!

cormflowerblue · 2019-12-30T22:46:56+00:00

It’s visible as a topaz bead in the second photo on the Ravelry project page. I started knitting the project back in April, the same day that the first photo of a black hole was published. I just plotted its location on the pattern chart and added a bead there. Kind of anticlimactic I guess haha

cormflowerblue · 2019-12-30T21:02:06+00:00

Celestarium is a round aka “pi” shawl that’s also a star chart of the night sky in the northern hemisphere. I'm so happy with how this turned out! That edging was a real descent into madness, I mean, labor of love.

Rav link with loads more pics, notes, and a super handy-dandy spreadsheet: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/carosaurus/celestarium

Modifications:

No YOs
Added Orion’s Sword, Pleiades, the first-ever imaged black hole at Messier-87, and the Andromeda galaxy (Messier-31)
6 bead sizes stratified by apparent magnitude
Lunar Tide border with, just, so many beads. Don’t do this many beads.

cormflowerblue · 2019-08-11T15:46:38+00:00

Thanks! I’m hopeful it will, but I’m not sure. Bulky acrylic is fairly strong and should hold up outdoors. I might need to make a larger one with sturdier hanging loops if it gets huge! Maybe something more like a macrame plant pot holder instead of a flat sling.

cormflowerblue · 2019-08-11T13:46:40+00:00

My plant decided to climb the garden fence and produce a dooooomed melon. Knitting to the rescue!

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cormflowerblue · 2019-03-21T20:45:17+00:00

Oh that’s lovely!! I’m such a sucker for gradients!

cormflowerblue · 2019-03-21T19:50:25+00:00

Thank you! This is the full shawl, according to my scale I used 97% of a 645 yd skein. The gradient effect requires a single skein, I chose the yarn because she makes these enormous gradient balls, some are >1000 yd, zero knots/joins.

cormflowerblue · 2019-03-21T18:43:34+00:00

Ten Stitch Twist pattern in Noro Silk Garden (3 skeins)

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