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Iagoblarina - Glacier Asymmetry

Wrap yourself in cabled lace.

This truly asymmetrical wrap with its white and blue icy highlights is dedicated to the exciting “twisted dangers” of Aialik glacier in Alaska (largest glacier in Aialik Bay, Kenai Fjords NP), which I had the luck to see calve right in front of me. It remains the loudest sound I ever heard.

But Iagoblarina does not only point to glaciers, as I happened to see a fair number of butterflies in Aialik Bay as well. What a contrast! Each cable of the main body was created in its own unique form in a bed of stockinette and with a prominent arrow representing the calving and thus the ice falling down into the water, while the pattern within the lace border is supposed to create a butterfly appearance to also lend the wrap light-footedness.

Features

• stockinette body with asymmetrical increases, cables and a prominent arrow
• accentuated by a two-sided butterfly lace border
• edges and separations by gothic style diamond sections

The Pattern

• is fully charted as well as
• given by complete written instructions (row by row);
• includes detailed instructions for the crochet bind-off for exclusive knitters and
• a photo gallery with close-ups.

What you will learn (if not already familiar with it):

• how to work a wrap with asymmetrical increases for interesting shaping,
• how to work cables in different forms, so they travel sideways,
• how to create a lacey butterfly effect,
• how to integrate diamond-shaped inserts in lace borders for interesting blocking possibilities, and
• how to bind off with a crochet hook.

Material

Of course, you can use any lace yarn. For the main body, however, you will achieve best results with a yarn whose color repeat is not too short.

Yarn 1
Lanas Stop Lace Top (superwash), Color 205 = white, blue, black, grey, beige
Composition: 75% wool, 25% polyamide
Weight/Yardage: 1.8 oz = 415/459 yd / 50 g = 380/420 m
Usage: 1.94 oz = 495 yd / 55 g = 462 m

Yarn 2
DROPS Lace, Color 8903 = black
Composition: 70% Alpaca, 30% Silk
Weight/Yardage: 1.8 oz = 437 yd / 50 g = 400 m
Usage: 2.5 oz = 607 yd / 70 g = 560 m

Miscellaneous
US 2 / 2.75 mm regular or circular needles
Stitch markers to mark cables, corners and/or pattern repeats
US C-2 / 2.5-2.75 mm / UK 11 crochet hook to bind off at the end
Tapestry needle