P.D. James Lap Blanket

In the book Innocent Blood Phillipa prepares to rent a partially furnished flat with her birth mother for a few months. She looks for items to spruce up the questionable but probably serviceable furniture. The pictured lace circle is just the size to cover one's lap for a little warmth, and hang over dreary furniture (including my own!) for a little color.

A disclaimer here. The circle you see took exactly one skein of a June yarn club offering, about 420 yards. I became rather enamored of my little project and I actually intend to take out the temporary crochet bind off and make it larger. I happily found a person or two willing to sell me theirs, but I don't have them yet.

P.D. James Project

The P.D. James book I read was An Unsuitable Job for a Woman. It's one of her Cordelia Gray series in which Cordelia is hired to investigate an apparent suicide, which of course turns out to be not a suicide at all. As you can see from the cover of the book, he was hung with a belt......so my somewhat morbid project is a belt. I knit it with some Koigu merino in a simple lace pattern:

CO 13 sts with size 3 needles.

Row l: K2 *slip 1, K2tog, passo, yo twice; repeat from * to last 2 sts, k2

Row 2: K2, *P1, K1 into double yo, P1, repeat from * to last 2 sts. K2

Row 3: Knit

Repeat rows 1-3 for pattern.

I added two D rings to one side of the belt to loop it through.