I’ve been working on the translation of Blumengruss from the book New Style of Heirloom Knitting for a while, and by using the sites mentioned in the last post, I think I’ve finally got it all.

So, I present, Blumengruss Translation.

You will, of course, need the book for yourself, because there are a number of charts that need to be referenced and I won’t reproduce them here.  That would violate the copyright of the original author, so please don’t ask.  

Yarn: Lace Weight. It translates phonetically as pappy pappyness which I can’t find reference to anywhere, but it seems like any laceweight will do. I list the color numbers below anyway.


Gauge: 24.5 sts and 60 rows over 10 cm.
(This seems a little off to me, but it’s what it says in the book)

Finished dimensions: 156cm x 84cm


Colors:

Needles:

Directions:

With #2 needle and Rose yarn, cast on 3 stitches.
Knit the first chart(Yellow area of diagram).

Use the e-wrap cast on for the increases at the end of the rows. 162 rows.

Place stitches on a holder or extra needle, break yarn.

 
With # 3 needle and Rose yarn, pick up 80 stitches on the first side of your knitting, pick up the three cast on stitches, and then 80 stitches along the other side, 163 stitches. (Pick up one stitch for every other row you
knitted in the first chart.)

Knit rows 1-53 of second chart (the large chart) with needle #3, according to the color sequence in the chart below. (Pink area of the diagram.)

Change to #4 needle and knit the next 91 rows (chart rows 54-144).

Leave stitches on the needle, break yarn.

Color sequence:  30 row repeat, start from the bottom and work up.

With #3 needle, cast on 22 stitches in a waste yarn using a provisional cast on.

With Rose yarn, knit edging chart, joining to outside edge of the last chart (around the bottom of the vee).

Knit on 846 rows of the edging chart to 423 live stitches of the bottom of the vee.

Knit on 144 rows of the edging chart to 144 rows of the end of the vee.

Knit on 326 rows of the edging chart to 163 stitches left on the holder from the first chart.

Knit on 144 rows of the edging chart to 144 rows of the other end of the vee.

Remove the waste yarn and graft the last row of the edging to the first row of the edging.

Soak, block and enjoy!

Now, I haven’t knitted this yet, but it’s high on my list.  I may actually use a single variegated yarn instead of following the striping, or I may buy some KnitPicks laceweight and dye my own stripes, I haven’t decided yet. 

I’ve only seen one other version out there in blogland, and it was done in a handpaint and came out very nice.  Maybe you were thinking about it but were put off by the pattern.  Maybe this will help?

Let me know if you find any errors or info you may find valuable that I can add to the translation, then we can all have a good version of the pattern to work from.