2022: a lace knitting stitch pattern

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Happy New Year!

Every year, I design a knitting stitch pattern by charting the digits for the upcoming year. Here is the lace for 2022; it was a pleasant surprise because it’s just panels of honeycomb lace with columns of plain knitting in between. It makes a good effect! (If you wanted to use it in your work without the association with the year, I would suggest just calling it a honeycomb panel.)

I think if I were to knit the sample again, I might decide to do it as garter lace (that is, make all the purls that aren’t in double yarnovers into knit stitches instead, as the fabric was showing a tendency to fold along the columns of stockinette stitches. That blocked out all right, but I wonder if those pleats would tend to reappear over time and need to be blocked out again.

I also made a needlework chart for 2022.

knitted sample of 2022 lace
Chart showing how to knit 2022 lace by means of special symbols. Written instructions in blog post.
click chart to enlarge

Notes:

  • This is a stitch pattern such as might be found in a stitch dictionary. It is not a pattern for a finished object. You will need to add selvedges or some other form of knitted stitches to either side.
  • 2022 is a multiple of 10 stitches and 4 rows.
  • I made a stitch map for 2022.
  • Designers, please feel free to use this in your patterns. I’d like credit but won’t be offended if people don’t give it.
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Abbreviations:

  • k: knit.
  • k2tog: knit 2 stitches together as if they were 1. (Right-leaning decrease)
  • p: purl.
  • ssk: slip each of the next 2 stitches as if to knit, then knit them together through the back loop. (Or substitute your favorite left-leaning decrease)
  • yo: yarnover. Bring the yarn forward between the needles so that it will make a loop over the needle when the next stitch is worked. When there are two in a row, bring the yarn forward, wrap it once around the needle, and leave the yarn in front so it makes a second loop.

Row 1 (RS): *k1, (k2tog, yo × 2, ssk) × 2, k1; work from *. (10 sts)

Row 2 (WS): *(p2, (k1, p1) in double yo) × 2, p2; work from *.

Row 3: *k1, yo, ssk, k2tog, yo × 2, ssk, k2tog, yo, k1; work from *.

Row 4: *p4, (k1, p1) in double yo, p4; work from *.