As with all my breed squares, I like to try and replicate the final project. In this case I wanted to adapt the lace work of the Falling Leaves Sweater onto the square, but the pattern is designed for working increases around the yoke, the leaves would need to have been smaller and the cable work would have needed lots of adapting. Rather than rewrite the whole pattern to fit a square, I decided to utilise another lacework leaf pattern and add in elements from the yoke lacework to fit the gaps. I had two balls of Castlemilk Moorit (CMM) yarn left over from the jumper that I thought about turning into gloves using the Forsyte pattern from Kate Atherley’s Knit Mitt’s book. I have a love hate relationship with this pattern – my edition of the book has a misprint in the lace chart, which resulted in initial confusion and I didn’t realise the sizing of my last attempt was completely wrong until I had to frog it 3 rows before the end, so I haven’t actually managed to knit the gloves yet (one day – I’m not giving up so easily!). I knitted a gauge swatch using the CMM and realised that it would be too thick to knit the gloves, however one section of the lace pattern would be the perfect size for the breed square.
I rewrote the leaf lace chart for knitting back and forth instead of in the round and added a purl border either side onto which I made sized down bobbles taken from the Autumn Leave’s jumper yoke pattern. Despite the photo not being the clearest (the lacework only shows up on a light background), I’m quite pleased with how the square turned out and it matches the jumper quite well. I am however, glad I didn’t knit the mittens with this yarn; the daintier lacework would definitely be shown off better with a smoother, thinner yarn. This does mean I still have a couple of balls of coarser Castlemilk Moorit left over, so there may be another project with this fleece in the future – for the time being I think it will be living in my handspun stash.
Happy Knitting!
Loose Ends 
Sounds like you learned some things about this breed and yarn which is always useful. The little square could be a coaster.
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I’ve never thought of making a knitted coaster before – the lacework would definitely stand out well against a light surface. Most people I’ve seen documenting fleeces tend to make a blanket from their squares; I’m hoping to put my own spin on that idea, but I need enough squares to lay out my design and see if it will work in practice (hopefully soon I’ll have enough to make a start!).
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