Daisy Lace Cuffs by Helen Gray Designs

Daisy Lace Cuffs

Knitting
June 2023
Fingering (14 wpi) ?
30 stitches and 36 rows = 4 inches
in Stranded colourwork in the round
US 2½ - 3.0 mm
US 2 - 2.75 mm
160 yards (146 m)
one size to fit 6.5" - 6.75" wrist circumference (16.5 - 17cm)
English
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These little lace cuffs knit up quickly in fingering weight yarn. They are knit bottom up in the round, starting with a small lace border, followed by a short section of stranded colourwork.
They are finished off with an applied lace edging worked flat, attached perpendicular to the body of the cuff as it is worked.

Techniques used in this pattern:

  • garter stitch in the round
  • increases - yarn overs and double yarn overs
  • decreases - k2tog, ssk
  • stranded colourwork
  • provisional cast on
  • 3-needle bind off (knitter’s choice to work Kitchener st instead)

Materials
Yarn
Fingering weight yarn in two shades - MC (main colour) and CC (contrast colour)
MC - 25g, CC - approx 40 yds

Samples shown in Jamieson’s Shetland Spindrift (MC) shade Eesit, Milarrochy Tweed (CC) shade Tarbet (blue version).

plus Jamieson’s Spindrift in 4 shades for pink version -
Sand (MC1), Thistledown (CC1), Wild Violet (MC2), Damask (CC2).

The sample cuffs were lightly steam blocked with no pins - knitter’s choice to block out top lace section a bit more to open out edging points.

Needles and Notions
2.75mm and 3mm circulars or dpns (length15”/40cm for 2 circulars or 32”/80cm for magic loop), spare dpns in smaller gauge size, crochet needle in gauge size,

Stitch markers (one unique marker for beginning of round and locking stitch markers), length of smooth waste yarn in contrasting colour to MC, scissors, tapestry needle for weaving in ends.

Gauge
30st/36rnds on 3mm circular needles over stranded colourwork .

Size
One size to fit wrist circumference 6.5 - 6.75” (16.5 - 17cm)
Length - 5.75” ( 14.5cm)

Pattern contains charts and written instructions for lace sections.
The stranded colourwork section is charted only. There is a greyscale chart and a coloured chart for the pink version of the cuffs.

Pattern contents:
Page 1 - Materials and abbreviations.
Page 2- Pattern notes and techniques - Yarn Dominance, Provisional Cast On, 3-Needle Bind Off, with links to YouTube tutorials for these and Kitchener Stitch (third party tutorials).
Page 3 - Instructions for bottom lace edging and colourwork sections.
Page 4 - Instructions for provisional cast on, applied lace edging and joining edges.
Page 5 - Colour chart for pink cuffs. Photos of crochet chain for provisional cast on and lace edging orientation.