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by Naomi Parkhurst, Gannet Designs

  • Embedding Meaning in Your Knitting (or other crafts)
    • Secret code summary
    • Converting Words to Numbers
    • Making a grid
    • Simple secret code rib knitting
    • Converting grids to stitch patterns
    • Asymmetry or Symmetry?
    • Other methods of encryption
    • Cables
    • Lace
    • Various projects and patterns using these methods
    • Further Resources
    • Embedding Meaning in Your Knitting (or other crafts)
  • Stitch structure posts
knitted sample of bliss lace: diamonds outlined by holes and with a larger hole in the midd; there's also scattered eyelets in between the diamonds.

Bliss: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on May 1, 2022May 2, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is bliss, suggested by Rin and Enting,

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knitted sample of relief lace

Relief: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on April 1, 2022April 8, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Relief, suggested by Kate, a Patreon

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image of an old computer punchcard

About my stitches based on words

Posted on September 10, 2018November 30, 2021 by Naomi Parkhurst

I am sometimes asked how to see the words in my stitches. The answer is that they aren’t directly visible,

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administrivia
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Knit one through the back loop: stitch structure

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

I realized I needed to explain the structure of the stitch named ”knit one through the back loop” (K1 TBL)

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There are two dark green loops that have been pulled through the light green stitch in a knitwise fashion. This is deceptive. The yarn wiggles up and down, but the middle wiggle isn’t anchored to anything.

Elongated stitch: knitting stitch structure

Posted on May 5, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

I’ve been writing a series of sporadic posts about the structure of various knitting stitch structures. I’m in the middle

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How bliss might look as stranded knitting

Bliss: a needlework chart for any craft

Posted on May 1, 2022April 29, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

The random number generator picked Bliss from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Rin and Enting, two of my

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knitted sample of Ribbon diamonds lace: gently curving diamonds with yarnover motifs shaped like angle brackets.

Ribbon Diamonds

Posted on April 29, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

A natural variation of Waving Ribbons lace is to mirror it along the vertical axis. This makes a standard result

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sample of Waving Ribbons lace. The pattern makes textured vertical waving columns that look a bit like ribbons.

Waving Ribbons: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on April 21, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

When I designed the lace for Relief, I was struck by several of the motifs to be found in it.

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Chart of star rib mesh stacked on top of the center top of the chart for starry flowers

Parity: an explanation of a problem I had to figure out for myself

Posted on April 12, 2022April 12, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

When I was knitting the Starry Flowers stitch pattern last week, its appearance reminded me a little of Star Rib

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knitted sample for Starry Flowers

Starry Flowers: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on April 8, 2022April 8, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

When I designed lace based on the word Relief, the result had multiple motifs in it that I’m going to

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knitting
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How the Relief needlework chart might look as stranded knitting

Relief: a needlework chart for any craft

Posted on April 1, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

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

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needlework charts
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About

I'm a knitting designer. I have three basic categories of things that I do.

I publish stitch patterns on the blog. Most of them are what I call secret code patterns: I encode the letters of words as numbers, chart the numbers on grids in various ways, and turn the results into lace knitting, mosaic knitting, other kinds of knitting, and needlework charts. I also publish a variety of other random stitch stitch patterns as they occur to me.

I also have patterns for sale on Payhip. These are mostly patterns for knitted accessories; there is also one crochet/knitting hat pattern

Finally, I write about knitting: I experiment with various knitting techniques, explain existing ones, and talk about fabric structure. I review knitting books. Most of all, I encourage you to try things out and see what you learn from them.

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Recent Posts

  • Knit one through the back loop: stitch structure
  • Elongated stitch: knitting stitch structure
  • Bliss: a needlework chart for any craft
  • Bliss: a lace knitting stitch pattern
  • Ribbon Diamonds

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