Wheat Ear edging, main motif (aka Dayflower?)
Part of number 63 in "Knitting Lace" by Barbara Abbey.
This is very similar to Dayflower in Barbara Walker's "Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns". I think it must be one of the old patterns that she describes as so badly botched that the graceful lines are scarcely discernible. The swatch photo shows Wheat Ear Edging (left) and BW's version of Dayflower. I can see what she means.
Shown with a cast-on count of 18 stitches.
Swatch photo uploaded by chrisfourfalcon
- Row 1 (RS): Sl1 wyib, k1, [yo, k2tog] twice, k2tog, k2tog, k2, yo, k3, yo, k2tog, yo, k1.
- Rows 2, 8, and 16: K3, p13, k2.
- Row 3: Sl1 wyib, k1, yo, k2tog, sl1-k2tog-psso, sl1-k2tog-psso, yo, k1, yo, k2, [k2tog, yo] twice, k1 (16 sts).
- Row 4: K3, p8, p2tog, p1, k2 (15 sts).
- Row 5: Sl1 wyib, k1, yo, sl1-k2tog-psso, yo, k3, yo, k2, [k2tog, yo] twice, k1 (16 sts).
- Rows 6 and 14: K3, p11, k2.
- Row 7: Sl1 wyib, k1, yo, k2tog, yo, k1, yo, k2, k2tog, yo, k2, [k2tog, yo] twice, k1 (18 sts).
- Row 9: Sl1 wyib, k1, yo, k2tog, yo, k3, yo, k2, k2tog, yo, ssk, ssk, yo, k2tog, yo, k1 (19 sts).
- Row 10: K3, p14, k2.
- Row 11: Sl1 wyib, k1, [yo, k2tog] twice, k2, yo, k1, yo, ssk, ssk, sl1-k2tog-psso, yo, k2tog, yo, k1 (18 sts).
- Row 12: K2, p3tog, p2tog, p9, k2 (15 sts).
- Row 13: Sl1 wyib, k1, [yo, k2tog] twice, k2, yo, k3, yo, sl1-k2tog-psso, yo, k1 (16 sts).
- Row 15: Sl1 wyib, k1, [yo, k2tog] twice, k2, yo, k2tog, k2, yo, k1, yo, k2tog, yo, k1 (18 sts).
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- 18 stitches
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- added 8 Dec 2013
- last edited 17 May 2020
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