I thought I would make a few more lace coat hangers in machine knitting. I went back seven years in my notebooks and couldn't find the pattern notes (ETA on Ravelry says June 2012 - no wonder!). Found the punchcard, "Mrs Trotter's Lace" - so-called asI first used it for a jumper for my old friend Diana, WI President so many years ago. I worked out that I needed a couple of stitches each side of the lace, worked out where to put the stoppers in. The one coat hanger I had kept for myself had three sideways repeats of the patterns, but was a bit floppy, so I went with two, just 24sts plus the margins. 120 rows on T7 in the rather stiff white cotton I have been using for waste yarn. It is slightly slubby and has come out a nice effect. The three coat hangers, pink, green, blue, were from Secret Sales (what a daft name for a firm of mundane ojects).
Not cost effective for re-sale but what the heck.
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