Gerd
Gerd is a 27-cm-wide lace edging for a 104 cm tablecloth, although I think it would make a lovely slightly ruffled edge for a cape or sleeves The instructions below are for a tablecloth. If you want to use this pattern as lace edging for another project, cast on a multiple of 25 stitches and purl one round. Then begin following the instructions for Chart A and then B.
Materials for the tablecloth: 175 g dark sand-colored, medium-fine crochet artificial silk and needles size 11/0, sand-colored thick silk fabric (silk rep) for the 50 cm middle of the blanket. Cut the fabric into a circle that is 50 cm in diameter. Roll under the edge and crochet tightly around the edge with single crochet.
Pick up 500 sts from the crochet stitches. You may need to skip one now and then in order to make the 500 stitches evenly spaced around the fabric edge. Then purl one round (this is round 1).
Begin Chart A with round 2, repeating the pattern 20 times per round. In the 3rd round increase the 4 YOs from round 2 into 12 stitches. Knit the even rounds that are not shown on the chart.
In rounds 4-26 the stitches inside the blue border are worked 3 times in each repeat of the pattern. The stitches to the left of the blue border are worked once. However in round 27 knit the stitches inside the orange border only twice and then the stitches to the left only once per repeat.
With round 29, return to knitting the stitches inside the blue border three times per repeat. Knit rounds 29 and 30 a total of six times, which will take you to round 40. Begin Chart B on round 41. Repeat Chart B as many times as necessary to complete the round.
In the 80th round increase the three YOs into 7 stitches as shown. In the 86th round bind off with a crochet hook, always taking as many stitches together with 1 single crochet as indicated on the chart, and chain 9 between the decreases.
Embroider a row of herringbone stitch with the crochet thread around the edge of the fabric next to the lace edging. Then block the lace and iron the center fabric.
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