What distinguishes the knitting in lace from that in a basic sweater, of troy? I am painfully ignorant of knitting other than extremely basic info: needles; knit; pearl; 1; 2; cable--and that's about it. I do remember my grandmother's crocheting with a single needle decades ago and realize that crochet is different from knitting--but I've assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that it was just the single needle that was the big difference between the two. I never had heard that lace work was actually knitting until reading your post above--so now I'm curious about that. Thanks for writing a bit here when you have the time.