PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THIS IS A CHARTED DESIGN.

Good yarn substitutes are Coats AIDA #5 and DMC Petra. Also, Tri-Finca 3ply Perle Cotton size 5 available from the Bag Lady. Coats Opera size 5 is another possibility

Imagine you’re walking through the forest and, in the distance, you can hear the bells of Yuletide ringing out to celebrate the season. The chevron shapes of the conifers all around you are blanketed in a pure white cloak of snow as you make your way towards the clearing where you know a warm welcome awaits you in the homely looking log cabin that now comes into view.

The night is still and there are stars to light your way as well as a lighted window in the cabin as you approach. Little flurries of snowflakes are all around and you remember how, as a small child, you would dance in the snow and try to capture just one snowflake thinking that you would be able to see more closely what it looked like only to find it melted to nothing more than water in your small warm hands. Nevertheless, you still marvel at the seasons and the snowflakes have never lost their magic for you.

You now enter the cabin and take off your coat and boots before going into the room from which you have seen the welcoming candlelight at the window. You know that in that room will be the people that you love and that they have been awaiting your arrival eagerly. What a sight greets you when you open the door! The table is set for Yule, there is mulled wine and mince pies and a log fire blazing in the hearth. You are home …

Snow Forest is a knitted lace Yuletide Table Runner and Napkin Rings set embellished with beaded and sequinned snowflakes that are knitted in. It has been specially designed for the Winter Solstice with traditional stitches and motifs relating to Yule. Although it is a lace and beaded/sequinned project, it’s a relatively quick knit as it’s knitted in Twilley’s No 5 Lyscordet Crochet Cotton which is equivalent to 3ply.

The runner is knitted starting at one side of the edging and continued for the whole length except for the edging on the opposite side. The stitches are left live on a spare needle while the opposite side’s edging is knitted and then grafted on to the main piece.

This project also requires 132 size 6 gold coloured beads and 96 silver coloured star sequins for the bead & sequin snowflakes. The sequins used in the runner and napkin rings in the photo are Gutermann Facons Ref: 773832 Col. 9495