Fairy Tale Lace is a collection of 7 lace shawl patterns and the fairy tales that inspired the designs. I’ve been releasing the patterns one at a time since last summer, and the final pattern was just released last week.
I’ve always been fond of fairy tales. Throughout history, they have been used to amuse, teach, inspire, frighten and entertain all generations. It’s only in more recent times that fairy tales have been considered ‘stories for children’. Many of the traditional fairy tales contain elements targeted at an older audience, and these are really my favourite versions. There is usually a very clear division between the heroes of the story, which tend to be good, and the wicked, who tend to be not just a little naughty, but all out evil. And they always get their just desserts in the end. At least almost always.
In this collection, several of the patterns are from stories collected by the Brothers Grimm. Most of us have probably heard these stories time and time again, both as children and then later as adults. We have the Pied Piper (or the Rat-catcher of Hameln), Hansel and Gretel and Rapunzel. The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland showed up with his stripes and ever-so-famous grin. There’s the sad Danish story by HC Andersen about the Little Match Girl who froze to death one cold New Years Eve. There is also a beautiful Chippewa tale called the Star of Earth, and a Greek myth about how Persephone was doomed to spend half of the year in the underworld with Hades.
Hopefully you’ll enjoy these patterns as much as I have. I have a hunch that this is not the last Fairy Tale collection I create, so if you have a favourite fairy tale you’d like to see as a future pattern, let me know. I may just take requests. 
In the meantime, the Fairy Tale Lace collection is available as an e-book for CDN $20.
All of the patterns are also available as individual downloads on Ravelry, for various amounts depending on the complexity of the pattern.
Enjoy!!
