Hawthorn: a needlework chart for any craft

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Usually when I turn a word into lace, I also make a needlework chart for any craft for the same word. After all, not everyone wants to knit lace! But there was a stretch where I didn’t get around to it very often, and so I occasionally go back to add those charts after the fact.

Here’s a needlework chart for Hawthorn. I encoded Hawthorn as lace back in 2019.

I try to provide at least some digital art of the pattern repeated all over not as a chart. It doesn’t necessarily look like a finished object for any particular craft, but I want to give a sense of it in use. (I try to make it look like knitting when it’s got floats short enough for easy stranded knitting.)

Drawing of how the Hawthorn needlework chart might look as stranded knitting; it makes ornate zigzags with a few speckles in between.
Chart showing how to work Hawthorn needlework by means of dark and light squares. Written instructions in blog post.
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  • Hawthorn has a repeat of 16 + 1 columns and 13 + 1 rows. It’s a pretty large design; I think it would work well as a blanket or something on that scale.
  • 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, *3A, 1B, 7A, 1B, 4A; work from *.

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

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

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

Round 5: work knit as follows; 1B, *4A, 2B, 3A, 2B, 4A, 1B; work from *.

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

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

Round 8: work knit as follows; 1B, *1A, 1B, 3A, 5B, 3A, 1B, 1A, 1B; work from *.

Round 9: work knit as follows; 1A, *2B, 4A, 1B, 1A, 1B, 4A, 2B, 1A; work from *.

Round 10: work knit as follows; 1A, *1A, 2B, 4A, 1B, 4A, 2B, 2A; work from *.

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

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

Round 13: work knit as follows; 1B, *3A, 2B, 2A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A, 1B; work from *.

Work Rounds 1-13 as desired, end with Round 14.

Round 14: work knit as follows; 1A, *3A, 1B, 7A, 1B, 4A; work from *.