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The pattern is at:

http://www.angelfire.com/folk/celtwich/KnitFrostedFern.html

or, follow the link in ravelry from the frosted ferns pattern.

I second that. An heirloom to be sure. Just perfect!_____________________________
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Thanks!
I blocked it with pins on a foam sheet I set up on my kitchen table. Hempathy is Hemp/Cotton/Copal, so it doesn't stretch as much as wool - it's only about 4" wider than when it came off the needles.

The Frosted Ferns pattern was not that hard - I marked every repeat, and counted, counted, counted. The hardest part was the left cross on the acorn caps. The 1 to 15 increases, to form the scalloped edge, were fun to do. Other than those, and a few many to 1 decreases, it's basically only k, p, yo, double yo, skp, k2tog and sk2p. I have Niebling's Lyra queued up as a future project. It was helpful for me to memorize and call [k2tog, yo twice, skp] 'the motif', as it occurs so often. Thus when I was knitting I would verbalize: k8, motif 6x, k3....etc.

My curent project is the Alita doily. I am currently only 15 rounds from the end - 130 rounds total, current round #115 has 29 stitches x24 repeats around - so hopefully this week I'll finish those rounds and get the crocheted border done (again 'supersized' on US 6 needles, using Corntastic yarn)