String Geekery

knitted sample of Release lace. It has repeating arches of hoes in it, along with rounded diamonds with trefoil-shaped holes.

Release: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on December 1, 2022December 6, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Release, suggested by Jeanette B., a

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,

Two rows of hexagonal lace patterns, with the hexagons arranged with no gaps in between. This version of the kelpie hexagon has a few more holes in each hexagon than version 1.

Kelpie lace hexagon 2: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on December 6, 2022December 8, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

This is the second of a series of coordinating stitch patterns that would work to make a kind of gradient

How the Release needlework chart might look as stranded knitting. There are horizontal bold geometric blue abd grey bands with zigzag edges, alternating with bands of diamonds made of blue speckles on a grey background. The speckled diamonds recede into the background.

Release: a needlework chart for any craft

Posted on December 1, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

The random number generator picked Release from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Jeanette B., one of my Patreon

One hand wearing one of the mitts. The stripes are vertical. There’s a vertical slit for the thumb hole. The base of the thumb is entirely uncovered.

Cold hands means knitting mitts

Posted on November 25, 2022November 28, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

Before I ever started selling designs and doing stitch patterns for Patreon, I blogged about my personal craft projects. Gradually

Four sets of lace hexagons, each set progressively having more open areas. At one end, there’s a set of mesh made of alternating lines of yarnovers and either decreases or knit stitches.

Étude no. 27: Kelpies hexagon designs

Posted on November 23, 2022December 8, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

When I was knitting the Kelpies lace, I noticed two sections within the stitch pattern that I thought could be

Black cat under a red blanket peering out at the world.

End of Hiatus

Posted on November 18, 2022November 18, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

Not my usual kind of blog post, I know, but I’ve been thinking hard about what I want to do

illustration showing how the Kelpies needlework chart might look as stranded knitting. There's two patterned vertical columns that alternate, one with almost-circles with plus-signs in them, and one with horizontal diamonds with flowers in.

Kelpies: a needlework chart for any craft

Posted on November 2, 2022November 8, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

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

Kelpies: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on November 2, 2022December 6, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

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

brief blog hiatus

Posted on October 19, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

Sometimes I need to take a month off from blogging, and it looks like this is one of those times.

How to cut (some) handknit fabric without problems

Posted on October 6, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

There are many knitters who will look at that subject heading and feel really uncertain about it. If you’ve just