FIRST SECTION:
With B, and 3 inch Hairpin Staple, work a strip of hairpin lace having 123 loops on each side of staple, fasten off. Remove bar. Using Size 8 knitting needles working along 1 edge of hairpin lace and keeping 1 twist in each loop across, attach A in first loop, pull yarn through same loop, * insert needle in next loop, pull yarn through, repeat from * 58 times (60 sts), place a marker, insert needle through next 3 loops, pull yarn through all 3 loops (center st), place a marker, * insert needle in next loop, pull yarn through, repeat from * across rem 59 loops (121 sts on needle).
ROWS 1-3: (Garter st), K each row, slipping markers.
ROW 4: K 2 tog, K across to within 2 sts of first marker, K 2 tog, slip marker, K 1, sl marker, K 2 tog, K to within last 2 sts, K 2 tog.
ROWS 5-84: Repeat the last 4 rows 20 times.â37 sts remain.
ROW 85: K 1, * YO, K 2 tog, repeat from * across row (beading).
ROW 86: K across row counting the YO as a st.
ROW 87: Bind off. With A and size 8 needles, working on upper opposite side of hairpin lace, keeping 1 twist in each loop, pull up a loop in each loop of hairpin lace.â123 sts.
ROW 1: Kâ123 sts.
ROW 2: Inc in first st, K 59, inc in next st, K 1, inc in next st, K 59, inc in last st.â127 sts. (To Inc: K into the front and back of same st).
ROWS 3-5: K.
ROW 6: Bind off.
