This creates a lace badge with a place for your name.

Materials:

Knit-Cro-Sheen

Size 1 knitting needles

4 inch wooden skewers from the grocery store

1 purchased pin back

Lace pendant

Cast on 1 stitch

Row 1 K1, YO, K1 (3 sts)

Row 2 -18 K1, purl to the last stitch, k1

Row 3 K1, YO, K1, YO, K1 (5 sts)

Row 5 K1, (YO, K1) 3 times, YO, K1 (9 sts)

Row 7 K1, YO, K2tog, YO, K3, YO, ssk, YO, K1 (11 sts)

Row 9 K1, (YO, K2tog) twice, YO, K1, (YO, ssk) twice, YO, K1 (13 sts)

Row 11 K1, (YO, K2tog) twice, YO, K3, (YO, ssk) twice, YO, K1 (15 sts)

Row 13 K1, (YO, K2tog) three times, YO, K1, (YO, ssk) three times, YO, K1 (17 sts)

Row 15 K1, (YO, K2tog)three times, YO, K3, (YO, ssk)three times, YO, K1 (19 sts)

Row 17 K1, (YO, K2tog) four times, YO, K1 (YO, ssk) four times, YO, K1 (21 sts)

Name Frame

Rows 19-21 Knit

Row 22 Purl

Row s 23-24 Knit

Row 25 (K2tog, YO) 10 times, K1 (21 sts)

Row2 26-27 Knit

Row 28 Purl

Row 29-30 Knit

Finishing

On the right side, pick up 21 loops from the garter stitch ridge formed by rows 19-20. (Holding the work upside-down makes this a bit easier) Transfer these stitches to a skewer, making sure they all face in the same direction. Transfer the stitches left from row 30 to the other skewer.

Fasten the beginning and ending threads. Press, using a bit of spray starch if desired.

The name frame formed between the two skewers should be large enough to print Knitted Lace List in 18 point type with your screen name in 12 point type below it.

Sew pin to the back.

I wore this pin to Stitches East in 1999. I didn't meet any others from the Knitted Lace List, but many people commented on the pin.

--Carol Connors