Flow: a charted design for any craft

The random number generator picked Flow from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Catnach and Nim, two of my Patreon supporters.

I developed a lace knitting stitch pattern for Flow, but 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 flow charted design might look as stranded knitting. There are vertical columns of things like railroad tracks alternating with columns that look like short ladders.
A chart showing how to work the Flow charted design by means of dark and light squares. Written instructions in blog post.
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  • Flow 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; 1B, *2A, (1B, 1A) × 2, 1B, 2A, 1B; work from *. (11 sts)

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

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

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

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

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

Work rounds 1 – 6 as desired, ending with round 7:

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