Moon: a chart for use with any craft

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Each month my Patreon supporters suggest words for me to encode as knitting stitches, and each month a random number generator chooses a word from that collection. This month’s word is Moon.

For a change of pace, this month’s generic chart for any craft uses the same basic encoding as the lace knitting stitch pattern, but with the addition of mirroring along the horizontal axis and removing a column and row.

21 April 2023: since this didn’t have an illustration to go with the chart, I’ve made an illustration, as well as making a better chart and adding written instructions while I was at it.

The featured illustration is one that looks more spacelike to me, but the darks and lights are reversed from the chart. If you’d like to see an example illustration where the darks and lights match the chart, please scroll to the bottom of the post.

how the moon chart might look as stranded knitting. There are patterned diamonds and zigzags.
This illustration has the darks and lights reversed from the chart showing how to work the pattern. It just fits the theme a bit better, since it looks a bit more like space.
chart showing how to work the Moon charted design by means of dark and light squares. Written instructions in blog post.
click chart to enlarge
  • The Moon charted design has a repeat of 10 + 1 columns and 6 + 1 rows.
  • In the written instructions, color A is the light squares above, and color B is the dark.
  • The written instructions below are formatted for stranded knitting, but it is my hope that they could be translated into instructions for other crafts. For instance, if working filet crochet, 1A could be one open square and 2B could be two filled-in squares.
  • Designers, please feel free to use this in your patterns (no need to ask). I’d like credit but won’t be offended if people don’t give it.
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Round 1: work knit as follows; 1A, *2 black, 2A, 1 black, 2A, 2 black, 1A; work from *.

Round 2: work knit as follows; 1A, *(1 black, 2A, 1 black, 1A) × 2; work from *.

Round 3: work knit as follows; 1 black, *2A, 1 black, 3A, 1 black, 2A, 1 black; work from *.

Round 4: work knit as follows; 1A, *3A, 1 black, 1A, 1 black, 4A; work from *.

Round 5: work knit as follows; 1 black, *2A, 1 black, 3A, 1 black, 2A, 1 black; work from *.

Round 6: work knit as follows; 1A, *(1 black, 2A, 1 black, 1A) × 2; work from *.

work rounds 1-6 as desired, ending with round 7.

Round 7: work knit as follows; 1A, *2 black, 2A, 1 black, 2A, 2 black, 1A; work from *.

how the Moon charted design might look as stranded knitting, but with the colors reversed. The diamonds and zigzags are dark on light instead of light on dark.
this illustration has the same arrangement of darks and lights as in the chart.