How to Knit or Pleat in Lace to Knitted Projects using Eyelet Lace and Yarn

Eyelet lace may easily be knitted or pleated into many knitted projects to provide an unique appearance.

Our projects are knitted using 8ply yarn with single or double sided eyelet lace knitted into the work to provide contrasts of colour and texture.

To knit in lace:

From the left, place the lace to the back of the work.
Insert the needle into the first stitch and through the first eyelet hole in the lace.
Keeping tension loose, yarn over needle and complete the stitch.
Follow this procedure to the end of the row and cut off the lace only.

To neaten ends of lace rows, overlap the lace towards you by one or two holes at the beginning and the end of the row.

To join lace part way through a row, just overlap each piece of lace by two sets of holes.

To cast off in a lace row: First cast off the required number of stitches, slip the stitch from the right hand needle back to the other needle and knit in the lace as usual.

To decrease in a lace row: Knit 2 stitches together (K2 tog) through one hole of lace.

To increase in a lace row: To increase at the beginning of the row, make increase stitch first, then proceed to knit in lace as usual. To increase at the end of the row, knit in the lace to the last stitch, then knit into the front of the stitch through next hole of lace, then knit into the back of the same stitch through the next hole of lace. (Calculate the number of lace holes required and cut lace before trying to increase at the end of a row.)

View the types of eyelet lace used in our projects.

To pleat lace:

Cut specified number of lace pieces to the required length (or number of holes) as per the pattern instructions. When pleating lace, the lace is held at right angles, up from the knitting, and each piece of lace is knitted into every second row as per the pattern instruction "pleat lace".

To "pleat lace", place lace to back of work so lace is at right angles, up from the work.
Insert needle into the pleat stitch and through two eyelet holes in lace.
Yarn over needle and complete the stitch.
Continue with plain knitting until next "pleat lace"' and pleat in the next piece of lace.
Continue in this manner to the end of the row.

Craft Moods Projects: Knitted projects using eyelet lace are contained in our following publications:

Needles and Lace (BK03)
Laced with Love (BK05)
Novelties in Lace (BK07)
Paragon of Lace (BK08)
Basics in Lace (BK10)
More Knitted Lace (BK14)

View details of these publications.

Learn how to slip stitch in lace to crocheted projects.