I designed this for members of the Inspired Knitters Club and is described in Club Issue Three: the Knitting Impressionist. I’ve called it Monet’s Smock since it’s loose, dreamy, as little painterly. You see it here afloat on Monet’s lily pond, where I’d love to be some days.

In my dreamiest moments, I imagine myself afloat amid Monet’s water lilies, fluidly a part of the universe, a lily hanging out at my pad. The image evokes all that is blessed about water as it ensorcels trees and sky in the magic of its reflective surface. The shifting ripples of green and blue soften the reality of sky, often harsh in the sunlight, or of trees bristling with branch and leaf. On the pond, all is melting color and shifting pattern, perfect in its imperfection.

The stitch is random lace, which is exactly as it sounds: lace randomized, with wave stitch and seed thrown in among very easy-going intarsia lilies. No rules exist in this creation. It just flows!

More information on the club here: INSPIRED KNITTERS CLUB