Starry Meadows: a charted design for any craft

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This reminds me of stars, but I already have lots of patterns with stars in the name; it reminds a friend of meadows. So I’m using meadowy colors and mashing the names together, just for fun.

This is not one of my encoded word charted designs, so there’s no hidden meaning to it that I know of.

How the starry meadows chart might look as stranded knitting. Undulating yellow outlines make curvy stars filled with green backgrounds and yellow starry flowers.
Chart showing how to work the starry meadows design by means of dark and light squares. Written instructions in blog post.
  • Starry Meadows has a repeat of 12 + 1 columns and 10 + 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; 1B, *1A, 3B, 3A, 3B, 1A, 1B; work from *. (13 sts)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Round 10: work knit as follows; 1A, *2B, 3A, 1B, 3A, 2B, 1A; work from *.

Work Rounds 1 – 10 as desired, ending with Round 11.

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