Song: a lace knitting stitch pattern

lace sample for Song: a lace knitting stitch pattern, by Naomi Parkhurst
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The first word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon this month is song, suggested by Catnach, a Patreon supporter.

Each month, my Patreon backers have the chance to suggest words for me to encode as knitting stitches. I make three of these into knitting stitches each month: the second and third (posted on the first day of the next month) are drawn from the collection of new words; the first is drawn from the collection of unused words. A random number generator helps me choose these, and then I get to work, first turning the letters into numbers, then charting the numbers onto grids in various ways. Finally, when I make the chosen chart into lace, I turn the marked squares into yarnovers and work out where to place the corresponding decreases. (I usually make lace; occasionally I make cables instead.) I also make a chart for any craft that uses a square grid for designing; this goes in a separate post.

The stitch patterns are not meant in any way to look like the original words; the words are the seeds of my creativity.

Follow link for charts and instructions

Vincible: a lace knitting stitch pattern

sample photo for Vincible: a lace knitting stitch pattern, by Naomi Parkhurst
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The word I drew from my word hoard for this stitch pattern is Vincible, suggested by Cathy, a Patreon supporter.

Each month, my Patreon backers have the chance to suggest words for me to encode as knitting stitches. I make three of these into knitting stitches each month: the second and third (posted on the first day of the next month) are drawn from the collection of new words; the first is drawn from the collection of unused words. A random number generator helps me choose these, and then I get to work, first turning the letters into numbers, then charting the numbers onto grids in various ways. Finally, when I make the chart into lace, I turn the marked squares into yarnovers and work out where to place the corresponding decreases. (I usually make lace; occasionally I make cables instead.) I also make a chart for any craft that uses a square grid for designing; this goes in a separate post.

The stitch patterns are not meant in any way to look like the original words; the words are the seeds of my creativity.

Follow link for charts and instructions

Song: a needlework chart for any craft

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The random number generator picked song from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Catnach, one of my Patreon supporters.

I usually develop a complicated knitting stitch pattern for each word, but I also like to provide a basic chart for any craft that’s worked on a grid: beads, cross stitch, whatever. I also try to provide at least some digital art of the pattern repeated all over not as a chart. It doesn’t necessarily look like a finished object for any particular craft, but I just want to give a sense of it in use. (I try to make it look like knitting when it’s got floats short enough for easy stranded knitting.)

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Zephyr: a mosaic knitting chart

sample image for Zephyr: a mosaic knitting chart, by Naomi Parkhurst
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A while back, I encoded the word Zephyr and made it into a lace stitch pattern. For this week’s post, I reworked a code grid I made while planning that post and turned it into a mosaic knitting stitch pattern. (I used the process described in this post.)

A nice thing about mosaic knitting is that the charts are similar to the final appearance of the knitting, so I’m not going to provide a swatch. Mosaic knitting looks difficult, but it’s not as hard as it looks! Basically, knit two-row stripes, and slip stitches from the row below to make the contrasting pattern.

Here’s a detailed blog post I wrote about how it works.

Follow the link for charts

Vincible: a needlework chart for any craft

sample image for Vincible: a needlework chart for any craft, by Naomi Parkhurst
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The random number generator picked Vincible from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Cathy, one of my Patreon supporters.

I usually develop a complicated knitting stitch pattern for each word, but I also like to provide a basic chart for any craft that’s worked on a grid: beads, cross stitch, whatever. I also try to provide at least some digital art of the pattern repeated all over not as a chart. It doesn’t necessarily look like a finished object for any particular craft, but I just want to give a sense of it in use. (I try to make it look like knitting when it’s got floats short enough for easy stranded knitting.)

Follow link for charts and more information

Apple: a mosaic knitting chart

sample image for Apple: a mosaic knitting chart, by Naomi Parkhurst
| Naomi Parkhurst

A while back, I encoded the word Apple and made it into a lace stitch pattern. For this week’s post, I reworked a code grid I made while planning that post and turned it into a mosaic knitting stitch pattern. (I used the process described in this post.)

A nice thing about mosaic knitting is that the charts are similar to the final appearance of the knitting, so I’m not going to provide a swatch. Mosaic knitting looks difficult, but it’s not as hard as it looks! Basically, knit two-row stripes, and slip stitches from the row below to make the contrasting pattern.

Here’s a detailed blog post I wrote about how it works.

Follow the link for charts

Apple: a needlework chart for any craft

sample image for Apple: a needlework chart for any craft, by Naomi Parkhurst
| Naomi Parkhurst

The random number generator picked Apple from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Cathy, one of my Patreon supporters.

I usually develop a complicated knitting stitch pattern for each word, but I also like to provide a basic chart for any craft that’s worked on a grid: beads, cross stitch, whatever. I also try to provide at least some digital art of the pattern repeated all over not as a chart. It doesn’t necessarily look like a finished object for any particular craft, but I just want to give a sense of it in use. (I try to make it look like knitting when it’s got floats short enough for easy stranded knitting.)

Follow link for charts and more information

Stairsteps: a mosaic knitting stitch pattern

sample image for Stairsteps: a mosaic knitting chart, by Naomi Parkhurst
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I was looking at an encoded word mosaic stitch pattern I was debating posting this morning. While I’m not going to post that one, it gave me the idea for this one. (This one is not encoded; it’s just an abstract pattern I like.) This is the kind of design that I came up with on my own that feels like something that other people probably came up with on their own, too. Sometimes designing is like that! =

A nice thing about mosaic knitting is that the charts are similar to the final appearance of the knitting, so I’m not going to provide a swatch. Mosaic knitting looks difficult, but it’s not as hard as it looks! Basically, knit two-row stripes, and slip stitches from the row below to make the contrasting pattern.

Here’s a detailed blog post I wrote about how it works.

Follow the link for charts

Apple: a lace knitting stitch pattern

photo of swatch for Apple: a lace knitting stitch pattern, by Naomi Parkhurst
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The second word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon last month is Apple, suggested by Cathy, a Patreon supporter. I love apples, especially in pie; the best apple pie I’ve had recently was made with King David apples, apparently so named because one of the things it’s a hybrid of is thought to be the Jonathan apple. And I’m reminded of the strangest fortune cookie fortune I’ve ever had: “you are the apple of my eye.”

I hadn’t planned for version 2 to look like it has apple leaves in it, but when I saw it almost happening, I changed the decreases enough to make sure it did.

Each month, my Patreon backers have the chance to suggest words for me to encode as knitting stitches. I make three of these into knitting stitches each month: the second and third (posted on the first day of the next month) are drawn from the collection of new words; the first is drawn from the collection of unused words. A random number generator helps me choose these, and then I get to work, first turning the letters into numbers, then charting the numbers onto grids in various ways. Finally, when I make the chart into lace, I turn the marked squares into yarnovers and work out where to place the corresponding decreases. (I usually make lace; occasionally I make cables instead.) I also make a chart for any craft that uses a square grid for designing; this goes in a separate post.

The stitch patterns are not meant in any way to look like the original words; the words are the seeds of my creativity.

Follow link for charts and instructions