The first word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon this month pattern is Moonrise, suggested by Valerie, a Patreon supporter. I designed Moon a while back, and I thought it would be good to make a stitch pattern that coordinates with that, so I took that as my starting point and continued the code grid based on that one. (I need to reknit the swatch for Moon at some point, looking at it again. It doesn’t show the design well.)
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.
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