Light: a needlework chart for any craft

I developed a lace stitch pattern for Light, but I also like to provide a basic chart for any craft that’s worked on a grid: beads, cross stitch, whatever. I 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 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.)

My needlework charts are all made so the dark squares indicate the code for the letters. Sometimes I think the design looks better with light stitches where the chart has dark squares, so I make one illustration with light-on-dark and one with dark-on-light, because it can be difficult to translate the chart to the illustration otherwise. (If you also prefer the light on dark version but have trouble working from the chart as shown, try saving the image and inverting it in image software.)

light on dark depiction of how the Light needlework chart might look as stranded knitting.
See below written instructions for a light-on-dark version of this illustration.
  • Light needlework has a repeat of 6 + 1 columns and 30 + 15 rows. (End after row 15 or 30.)
  • In the written instructions, color A is the light squares above, and color B is the dark.
  • The written instructions below are formatted for stranded knitting, but it is my hope that they could be translated into instructions for other crafts. For instance, if working filet crochet, 1A could be one open square and 2B could be two filled-in squares.
  • Designers, please feel free to use this in your patterns (no need to ask). I’d like credit but won’t be offended if people don’t give it.
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Round 1: work knit as follows; 1A, *2A, 1B, 3A; work from *. (7 sts)

Round 2: work knit as follows; 1A, *1A, 3B, 2A; work from *.

Round 3: work knit as follows; 1A, *(1A, 1B) × 2, 2A; work from *.

Round 4: work knit as follows; 1A, *1B, 3A, 1B, 1A; work from *.

Round 5: work knit as follows; 1B, *(1B, 1A) × 2, 2B; work from *.

Round 6: work knit as follows; 1A, *1A, 3B, 2A; work from *.

Round 7: work knit as follows; 1B, *(1B, 1A) × 2, 2B; work from *.

Round 8: work knit as follows; 1B, *(1A, 1B) × 3; work from *.

Round 9: work knit as follows; 1B, *(1B, 1A) × 2, 2B; work from *.

Round 10: work knit as follows; 1A, *1A, 3B, 2A; work from *.

Round 11: work knit as follows; 1B, *(1B, 1A) × 2, 2B; work from *.

Round 12: work knit as follows; 1A, *1B, 3A, 1B, 1A; work from *.

Round 13: work knit as follows; 1A, *(1A, 1B) × 2, 2A; work from *.

Round 14: work knit as follows; 1A, *1A, 3B, 2A; work from *.

Round 15: work knit as follows; 1A, *2A, 1B, 3A; work from *.

Round 16: work knit as follows; 1B, *5A, 1B; work from *.

Round 17: work knit as follows; 1B, *1B, 3A, 2B; work from *.

Round 18: work knit as follows; 1A, *1B, 3A, 1B, 1A; work from *.

Round 19: work knit as follows; 1A, *(1A, 1B) × 2, 2A; work from *.

Round 20: work knit as follows; 1B, *1A, 3B, 1A, 1B; work from *.

Round 21: work knit as follows; 1B, *1B, 3A, 2B; work from *.

Round 22: work knit as follows; 1B, *1A, 3B, 1A, 1B; work from *.

Round 23: work knit as follows; 1A, *(1B, 1A) × 3; work from *.

Round 24: work knit as follows; 1B, *1A, 3B, 1A, 1B; work from *.

Round 25: work knit as follows; 1B, *1B, 3A, 2B; work from *.

Round 26: work knit as follows; 1B, *1A, 3B, 1A, 1B; work from *.

Round 27: work knit as follows; 1A, *(1A, 1B) × 2, 2A; work from *.

Round 28: work knit as follows; 1A, *1B, 3A, 1B, 1A; work from *.

Round 29: work knit as follows; 1B, *1B, 3A, 2B; work from *.

Round 30: work knit as follows; 1B, *5A, 1B; work from *.

End after either round 15 or 30.

light on dark depiction of how the Light needlework chart might look as stranded knitting.