January 2025 update! I’m running a KAL on the pattern - I’ll be making the blanket together with other knitters, sharing tips and tricks as we go. Perfect for beginners who’d like more support, but I’m sure it’ll be fun for everyone. Head over to the KAL main page for more details and registration.

May 2021 update! To celebrate 10 years’ anniversary of the pattern, I am publishing the updated version. Hopefully, it will now be much easier to understand and follow. The pattern is now only available from my website.

A quick project on larger needles, using two strands of yarn. I was inspired to make it as my good friend was having a baby, and the nursery theme was “In the Woods”.

It’s a lace pattern that uses left and right slanting decreases on both right and wrong side rows. The pattern has both charted and written instructions.

The gauge is approximately 1 pattern repeat (15 sts) = 11,5 cm. As this is a blanket, you can easily play with it, making more or less of pattern repeats.

I used less than 6 skeins of yarn for mine.

Please note, if you are knitting English style, you may easily lose yarn overs that are followed by purl stitches. I recommend using stitch markers to separate each lace repeat to make it easier.

Errata (for those who downloaded the pattern before the 31st of July 2011):
Written instructions, row 5 should be: (p2, k 8, k2tog,k1, yo, k2), p2

Translated versions are of the original 2011 pattern, and are also available on my website using the link above.

Thanks to MarjorieLouiki, there is now a French version available, and MsSunshine76 has kindly translated the pattern into Spanish!

Thanks to Gilma Elias for the Portuguese translation!
Here’s correction for Portugese version:
“17row: (2t, 3m, Lacerda, 2m, MS, 6m), 2t
(2t instead of 2m).
I hope it helps other brasilian or portuguese knitters.”