Tag: design process

Knitting design and me: how I think about upcoming designs

The questions people ask me say a lot about their (pretty reasonable) assumptions about knitting design and stitch pattern design.

Aside from just loving the stitch patterns from the Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible, I have been wanting to apply some

This is the third and final part of my very basic series about how to use a stitch pattern. Here

Periodically I blog about some of my knitting experiments – I call these études, after the kind of musical exercises.

A year and a half ago, I wrote a blog post about a pair of socks I was knitting for

I have pretty much given up trying to invent a form of knitted filet lace, where filet lace is defined

Sometimes I like to try exercises in knitting stitch design as a way of exploring the possibilities. These are what

Swatching serves many purposes in knitting. There is the basic gauge swatch, which should (in theory) help the knitter pick

The last time I visited the topic of a knitted version of filet lace, I had come up with a

Somehow, the more I hang around other knitters, the more I end up with bags of random skeins from yarn