Rochelle's Lyra

Rochelle Ribeiro of Toronto, Ontario, Canada is another Lyra knitter who's completed the journey!

Here we see the corner of her square version of the Lyra. As with most of the other Lyras, the area of binding at the third set of leaves is visible; just to reiterate, this is a pattern flaw, not the knitter's error!

Many of us who have knit the Lyra, as well as visitors to this blog, have noticed that the Lyra is not the only Niebling pattern that seems to have a similar "flaw".

Rochelle's appears to have been knit in cotton. She has done a wonderful job, too!
I will pester her for more information on material
and thread, as well as her thoughts and reflections
on the project.




Rochelle's completed Lyra below.
Beautiful knitting, Rochelle!

Marianne's Beautiful Lyra

Marianne Kuokkenan from Finland is sends these pictures and
comments on her Lyra, which she completed in August of this year (2006).

"I got my Lyra off the needle last week, but only today
I had the time to block it on my bed, + styrofoam.  
It took 1.5 hours and a sore back to block it!! I had to
take my Balmoral off first. It had sat there for 3 months
:-[  not on the bed, but by it.













You can see there's quite a binding in my Lyra, like the others.
I stuck to the original pattern.  The finished doily is 125 x 125 cm. 
The styrofoam is 120 cm wide, as is my bed.  I used up 4+ balls
of #20 crochet cotton. The last change was in the  middle of the
crochet round.













Now what's next, hmmm?  I've been writing my pattern
 for a Faroese shawl. Nearly done in Swedish. After that,
translations to Finnish and English. I need to take new photographs!"

Thank you, Marianne, for contributing your thoughts and these beautiful pictures. Your Lyra is gorgeous, and what a stunning colour!