Brand new - I’m knitting it right now.

Ok – it starts with a story about my family. Czech immigrants in the 1920s in urban settings in Wisconsin. They moved to shovel coal for the new lakeside coal power plant as the schist here is the same as the stuff in Moravia and they felt at home. Eventually they all owned cute lil houses near each other and they used to have PICKLE PARTIES as block parties where everybody would bring their best crock and share/sample. Kraut and anything else you could brine.

My great grandmother preferred using native capers in place of a lot of salt, which I had never heard of and thought was interesting. So anyway, I love a good pickle. That and a giant veg garden so you have stuff to pickle are in my blood.

This is another collection of stitches that I picked out and put together to form a narrative that also looks really cool (I think).

There is a bite stitch that looks like a bitten off dill pickle, a stitch that looks like a lil cornichon, and then a center panel of dill seed heads.

I will give you the stitches for the first two panels and then a chart for the dill seed stitch, which doesn’t exist anywhere else as I MADE IT UP FOR THIS (cool right)(I actually heavily doctored a Barbara Walker pattern).

This is a very basic lace pattern that gives you both a chart and written stitch instructions. You will be purling through the back loop so if you hate that, turn away now.

Please note - the chart for the dill is 12 rows, the 13th is the first row of the next repeat with 2 extra yo’s that aren’t in the first repeat. I caught that last night, sorry.