Christrose (Beyer Strickschrift 70670/XXV)

(Original photo from Beyer Bunte Reihe Band 2077/Beyer Kunststricken Heft 3, advertised as a send away pattern)

Below are examples of other uses for the two flower squares in the original pattern. The colored kimono uses small leaf triangles with 1 to 4 repeats to join the flower squares, not by grafting, but by knitting the small leaf triangles from the outside in! The small leaf pattern used for joining without grafting is included as an addendum to this Christrose rechart and written instructions.

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Kimonos – Two Arrangements of Flower Squares

Pants

Kimonos – Joined With Contrasting Color Triangles In Small Leaf Patter

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Summer 2026 Sale – 50% Discount All Patterns – Expires Midnite 7/21/26

Life has been interrupting quite a bit these past few months. Hopefully, will publish new patterns soon. Meanwhile, remember to use the Add To Cart button even if purchasing only one pattern.

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Spring 2026 Sale – 50% Discount All Patterns – Expires Midnight 04/20/26

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Winter 2025-26 Sale – Corrected – 50% Discount All Patterns – Expires Midnight 01/06/26

Got distracted by very pressing issues. Will add a pattern or two during the sale.

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Harro: Found Hiding In Plain Sight (Sort of)

Original photo edited to remove “smudge” on lower right corner of table top

For years I bemoaned the fact that I could not find this pattern anywhere under the name Beyer Strickschrift 71074 Harro. However, it was hiding out in Labores Beyer Nr. 10: 28 Tapetes Grandes y Pequeños de Punto de Media, as Model 12 “Zefiro” (“Zephyr”) which name means “gentle breeze or favorable winds”. Turns out I had inadvertently left the magazine in storage and only recently retrieved it, sigh! The word Harro is an old German/Teutonic name for boys, meaning “warrior” or “ruler of an estate”. It is also the name of a medicinal plant terminalia chebula native to South Asia, which meaning Niebling probably had in mind because of his love of flowers.

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Charting is usually somewhat fun, but not this time — even though the double leaf motif is similar to those in Ingeborg and Blattranke:

Ingeborg also ingeborg-knitted-by-luciana-pimenta

Blattranke

The photo below shows only a small part of the challenge. Keep reading if you dare!

Notice the black T-Square on the right side in the photo, shown for scale. But since the image is enlarged for this blog, it doesn’t really reveal how hard it was to read. Am quite near sighted but had to use a magnifying glass… a lot! Perhaps a better example of the scale is the below admittedly gratuitous photo my assistant:

Mr. Smokey Robinson is a tough critic! ;-)

Ultimately, the major problem was not the scale of the chart, but rather three other problems: 1) the extraordinary length of the pattern lines, specifically when proofreading the charts against the written instructions. Matching the symbols in the chart with the knitting term abbreviations in the written instructions is such fun because the chart is read from right to left while the written instructions are read from left to right. Normally, this isn’t a problem except when the pattern is deceptively repetitive, as in:

2) The hex mesh has to either match up or reverse on either side of the 7 stitch stockinette strip, depending on whether there is a central motif between the two strips of double leaves. As an example, there are two rounds in the chart where, a “Subsection” had to be made even though the the adjacent rounds have the exact same long sequence of stitches repeated twice. In other words, normally when a chart line is very long it is broken into sections and to work one repeat first work <Round Number>-1, then <same Round Number>-2, etc. However, for the “nearly” identical repeats along the same round, the variations cannot be placed in the next section, but rather have to be placed directly above the same round number in the current section. So don’t freak out when you see the charts! ;-)

3) When a new motif is begun within the hex mesh (i.e., between the two double leaf motifs), on either side of the new motif “knit 2 together, yo” and “yo, skp” are both replaced by “knit 2”, which was hard to spot in this pattern, again because of the repetitiveness and tiny symbols.

End of whining. Now for the trash talk:

Will have to test knit these two to see how they fit. (Hint, Hint…)

Finally, will also have to test knit one repeat of the border (because it is not clearly illuminated in the original photo and am not that good with Photoshop) and will update this post with the result. Meantime, this is what the cloth looks like to Round 195, that is,without the border:

Harro To Round 195

Final suggestions:

To Round 53: Pillow or Multiple Squares for Curtain or Baby Blanket

To Round 93: Pillow or Baby Blanket or Top

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Thanks for reading this far, and Happy Knitting!

Fall Sale Continues (50% Discount All Patterns – Expires Midnight 10/09/25) – New Pattern: Ottilie (Prosperous) – Does NOT Require Crochet Chain Bind Off.

Removed ash tray, cigarette and two bottles from original photo. Sorry for not being able to cleanly replace the hex mesh at the center.

The biggest problem am having lately is what pattern to post first because recently have been working on several patterns simultaneously! Will not announce them ahead of time, but rather just post them. Stay tuned because there are quite a few happy shockers among them! ;-)

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As always, Happy Lace Knitting!

Fall 2025 Sale Continues – 50% Discount On All Patterns – Expires Midnight 10/09/25 + Very Small Correction To Dutch Niebling III

Have resent the pdf to previous purchasers. (The correction is to reverse a correction that I inadvertently made. That is, it restores the original stitches that I thought were a mistake but weren’t.) However, for early purchasers from 2016-2023, if your email address has changed, kindly let me know in the comments because my email account might not notify me that the email address is no longer valid.

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Fall 2025 Sale – 50% Discount All Patterns

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Dorette/Doretta – Baby Blanket Or Shawl

Dorette – Edited Original Photo

Note: The pattern name is “Dorette” in Deller Handarbeits-Moden: Kunstgestrickte – Heft 15. However, in Kunstbreien B59 and Gloria Penning’s Danish Lace Treasures, it is “Doretta”.

In the coming weeks will use the pattern for a baby blanket for a friend, adding a picot hem border. Will post a pic then. For a triangular shawl work two repeats of the pattern instead of four.

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Summer Sale Continues (expires Midnite 7/21/25) – Another from Dellers Heft 15: Mandelblüte (“Almond Blossom”)

At only 94 rounds, would make a relatively quick gift! As for the sale, remember to use the Add To Cart button, even if only purchasing one pattern.

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Original Photo (Edited)

Mandelblüte – Inverted Image