Knitted Lace Estonia DVD Techniques Review

I am a yarn junkie and love this book. So far I've made three different shawls from this book and haven't found any errors in the instructions or the drawings. There are 14 designs including shawls, triangular shawls, square shawls and stoles (rectangular shawls?). Instructions are clearly written, all lace patterns are in charts, and thread and needle requirements appear to be accurate. The book contains the history of Estonian lace knitting with photographs of knitters and their creations…

I have to admit the beautiful cover drew me to this book. I am new to lace making (but not new to knitting) and had just completed a simple lace making project when I purchased this book. I started with a "lily of the valley" scarf. I checked online for typos and found that all the corrections were already included in my print. I started with the scarf and by the end of the first iteration of the pattern I realized that there was a flaw in the pattern that wasn't in the typos and that couldn't…

I was tempted to buy this book after reading reviews from several popular bloggers, but I bought it due to previous unsuccessful attempts at lace knitting, postponed. I'm definitely not a beginner knitter, just a beginner knitter. I also can't imagine ever going anywhere where a lace scarf would fit (I'm the girl in blue jeans). However, when another Revain reviewer said the patterns were relatively easy, I jumped the fence and ordered. I also thought if I knit one of these beautiful shawls it…