Friendship: a needlework chart for any craft

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A while back, I encoded the word friendship as lace and also as a needlework chart. I put the charts for both in the same post, but I didn’t really have a good plan for how to deal with needlework charts at the time. This is a new blog post just for the needlework chart for Friendship.

How the Friendship chart might look in use: two alternating patterned stripes. One has a speckly pattern kind of like fireworks; the other is a bolder geometric pattern.
chart showing how to work the Friendship chart by means of dark and light squares. Written instructions in blog post.
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  • Friendship has a repeat of 18 + 1 columns and 12 + 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, *8A, 1B, 9A ; work from *.

Round 2: work knit as follows; 1A, *(2A, 1B) × 2, 5A, 1B, 2A, 1B, 3A ; work from *.

Round 3: work knit as follows; 1A, *(3A, 1B) × 2, 1A, 1B, 3A, 1B, 4A ; work from *.

Round 4: usingA, knit.

Round 5: work knit as follows; 1B, *(1B, 1A) × 3, (2B, 1A) × 2, (1B, 1A) × 2, 2B ; work from *.

Round 6: work knit as follows; 1A, *2B, 4A, 1B, 3A, 1B, 4A, 2B, 1A ; work from *.

Round 7: work knit as follows; 1A, *3A, 3B, 2A, 1B, 2A, 3B, 4A ; work from *.

Round 8: work knit as follows; 1A, *2B, 4A, 1B, 3A, 1B, 4A, 2B, 1A ; work from *.

Round 9: work knit as follows; 1B, *(1B, 1A) × 3, (2B, 1A) × 2, (1B, 1A) × 2, 2B ; work from *.

Round 10: usingA, knit.

Round 11: work knit as follows; 1A, *(3A, 1B) × 2, 1A, 1B, 3A, 1B, 4A ; work from *.

Round 12: work knit as follows; 1A, *(2A, 1B) × 2, 5A, 1B, 2A, 1B, 3A ; work from *.

Work rounds 1-12 as desired; finish with round 13.

Round 13: work knit as follows; 1A, *8A, 1B, 9A ; work from *.