Ease: a charted design for any craft

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The random number generator picked Ease from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Kate, one of my Patreon supporters.

I developed a lace stitch pattern for Ease, 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 Ease charted design might look as stranded knitting. Vertical bands with wiggly lines as borders and repeated four-petaled flowers or stars alternate with vertical lines of dots.
A chart showing how to work the Ease charted design by means of dark and light squares. Written instructions in blog post.
  • Ease has a repeat of 12 + 1 columns and 4 + 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.
  • This pattern is written in rounds, but because each row has mirror symmetry, the colors can be read in flat rows as written. If knitting, just work purl stitches on alternating rows instead of knit.
  • 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, *(1A, 1B) × 2, 3A, 1B, 1A, 1B, 2A; work from *.

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

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

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

Repeat rounds 1-4 as desired, ending with round 5:

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