String Geekery

knitted sample of the Twist cable. vertical bands of interlaced diamonds have vertical borders that sometimes cross over and weave in and out of each other.

Twist: a cable knitting stitch pattern

Posted on September 1, 2023September 1, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

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

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,

How the Hyla chart might look as stranded knitting. Stylized wavy vertical lines are mirrored so that there are regular almost-ovals between them. In those spaces, there's shapes like mirrored angle brackets with a dot in the middle. There are even more dots added to the pattern in version 3.

Hyla, version 3

Posted on September 19, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

Here’s version three of the Hyla charted design. I’m going to post several variations over several weeks; I liked them

Throwback Thursday

Posted on September 14, 2023September 14, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

This has been quite a week, so I’m not posting anything new this time. Instead, here are two early stitch

Hyla, version 2: a charted design for any craft

Posted on September 8, 2023September 19, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

Here’s version two of last week’s Hyla charted design. I’m going to post several variations over several weeks; I liked

how the Twist chart might look as stranded knitting. Squares with vertical bars hover in hexagons with little incomplete rectangles at the points.

Twist: a charted design for any craft

Posted on September 1, 2023September 1, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

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

Hyla, version 1: a charted design for any craft

Posted on August 30, 2023September 19, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

It’s going to take a bit longer to finish the first 1/1 cable stitch method tutorial than I expected, so

Alternate 1/1 cable crosses

Posted on August 21, 2023August 21, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

The instructions for 1/1 cable crosses in my stitch patterns are written with cable needles, but there’s at least three

How the starry meadows chart might look as stranded knitting. Undulating yellow outlines make curvy stars filled with green backgrounds and yellow starry flowers.

Starry Meadows: a charted design for any craft

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

This reminds me of stars, but I already have lots of patterns with stars in the name; it reminds a

The Meta Cable knitted sample, but with white lines drawn along the cable lines in two of the three columns, to emphase how the cables cross over, under, and over again.

Random Thoughts about the meta Cable lace cable design

Posted on August 9, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

This is not a complete design process; I just wanted to share a few of the things I thought about

Patreon heads up

Posted on August 4, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

If you support anyone’s Patreon (mine or not), please check if you had any payment trouble this week. There was