This simple lace and garter stitch design can be used as a table runner, place mat, or bureau scarf, depending on how long you choose to make it.

It can also be adapted as as a lady’s scarf to wear.

It would be a great first lace project, and additional details are included to help you out if this is your first time trying your hand at lace.

The lace pattern is written, no chart, and you repeat a single line of instructions each time, so you will quickly memorize the stitches.

Stitches used: knit, purl, k2tog, ssk, yo.

The sample is done in light mercerized cotton yarn, but any cotton, cotton blend, linen, linen blend, or even wool can also be used.