Heart: a needlework chart for any craft

A while back I encoded the word heart as a lace knitting stitch pattern. I also like to provide a basic chart for any craft that’s worked on a grid: beads, cross stitch, whatever. 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.)

how the Heart needlework chart might look as knitting. (Not hearts; it's more like a row of overlapping snowflakes.) Written instruction in blog post.
chart showing how to work the Heart needlework chart with dark and light squares. Written instructions in blog post.
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  • Heart has a repeat of 6 + 1 columns and 30 + 15 rows. (End after either row 15 or row 30.)
  • 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, *2A, 1B, 3A; work from *. (7 sts)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Round 8: work knit as follows; 1B, *(2A, 1B) × 2; work from *.

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

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

Round 11: work knit as follows; 1A, *5B, 1A; work from *.

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

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

Round 14: work knit as follows; 1A, *1A, 3B, 2A; work from *.

Round 15: work knit as follows; 1A, *2A, 1B, 3A; work from *.

Round 16: work knit as follows; 1B, *5A, 1B; work from *.

Round 17: work knit as follows; 1B, *1B, 3A, 2B; work from *.

Round 18: work knit as follows; 1B, *1B, 3A, 2B; work from *.

Round 19: work knit as follows; 1B, *(2A, 1B) × 2; work from *.

Round 20: work knit as follows; 1B, *2B, 1A, 3B; work from *.

Round 21: work knit as follows; 1A, *1B, 3A, 1B, 1A; work from *.

Round 22: work knit as follows; 1A, *1A, 3B, 2A; work from *.

Round 23: work knit as follows; 1B, *(2A, 1B) × 2; work from *.

Round 24: work knit as follows; 1A, *1A, 3B, 2A; work from *.

Round 25: work knit as follows; 1A, *1B, 3A, 1B, 1A; work from *.

Round 26: work knit as follows; 1B, *2B, 1A, 3B; work from *.

Round 27: work knit as follows; 1B, *(2A, 1B) × 2; work from *.

Round 28: work knit as follows; 1B, *1B, 3A, 2B; work from *.

Round 29: work knit as follows; 1B, *1B, 3A, 2B; work from *.

Round 30: work knit as follows; 1B, *5A, 1B; work from *.

End after either row 15 or row 30.