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English

2014-01-30 21:47:45

Gudrun was born in Shetland, Scotland in the 70's when her mother was running the successful knitwear design company, The Shetland Trader. Some 30 years later and now living in the U.S, she has followed in her mother's footsteps by reviving the Shetland Trader name, and has made a name for herself in the knitwear design industry using the internet to directly interact with an international community of knitters. Gudrun has been fortunate to teach in many interesting and beautiful places throughout the US and Europe. Because she misses Scotland so much and loves to get back as often as possible she has started running specialized knitting tours in Shetland! When she's not on the road she enjoys hanging out with her family in the woods of Western Massachusetts...and knitting of course! Gudrun's patterns can be found on her website and through Ravelry.com

In this class, knitwear designer Gudrun shares one of her patterns for making a beautiful Shetland-inspired lace shawl. Worked up in lace-weight yarn, this shawl has a slightly unusual construction--the decorative edge is worked as a strip in an eyelet lace pattern, and then the stitches are picked up along one long edge and worked in garter stitch. This garter-stitch section is shaped with short rows, adding rich texture and a lovely curve to this delicate wrap. This is the perfect project for an intermediate lace knitter (or an ambitious beginner), and it's a great opportunity to use that one big skein of boutique lace-weight or fingering-weight yarn that you've been saving for a worthy project.

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