I hadn’t ever designed a square piece of lace before, so designing Life Cycle provided a challenge for me! Created for my latest Craftsy class Lace from the Inside Out, Life Cycle is worked from the center out over a small number of stitches. I teach working a circular cast on (both on double pointed needles, and on magic loop), and then jump right into chart reading, Nupps, and advanced decreases. I cover life lines, lace chart tips and tricks (written instructions are included as well), yarn and needle choices, fixing mistakes, in depth blocking, and more!

Life Cycle is a labor of love…. it is the largest lace design I’ve ever accomplished I spent many lovely hours this fall/winter working on it.

This is the smaller, baby blanket version of Life Cycle, knit in Fingering weight yarn!