Lace difficulty and me
Karie Westermann has written a fascinating series of posts about lace knitting on her Patreon (I’ve linked the first, but
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Tag: design process
Mental Health Day
I’m taking this week off of blogging, just because. Here’s some links to a set of stitch patterns I designed
Continue readingOn swatching, part 2
This is a continuation of last week’s post about how I make an eyelet frame around a stitch pattern swatch
Continue readingRolled up version 2: a free lace knitting stitch pattern
Something that I often do with my stitch patterns is to try out what they look like with the alternating
Continue readingMore hexagon mesh explorations
One of my very favorite things about the online knitting community is the way that one person will write about a technique or an idea, and that will inspire someone else to try a variation, and so on.
Continue readingDoodle lace: a free lace knitting stitch pattern
Over the last while, I’ve been turning a doodled colorwork pattern into several knitting stitch patterns so you can see
Continue readingÉtude no 23: noodling around a little with bunny ears back
Periodically I like to play with techniques in swatches to see what I can do with them. When I write
Continue readingDoodle digression – various colorwork charts
Last week I showed how I turned a doodled colorwork chart into a very different-looking mosaic knitting chart. I had
Continue readingGather together: permutations of a knitting stitch
There’s a knitting stitch combination that I’ve seen called a gather, and I’ve mostly seen it in Estonian stitch patterns,
Continue readingStitch Maps and my design process
Over the last few years I’ve had various people ask me if Stitch Maps could be useful to me in
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