Dots and Diamonds: a charted design for any craft

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This is the second chart I used in knitting the palms of a pair of mitts I made for myself. I won’t be making a written pattern for these mitts, but I wanted to share the charted designs because I like them.

I came up with this chart by playing around with standard design elements, so I’m certain someone else must have come up with it before. This sort of thing happens all the time in crafts.

The mitts, showing the palm side. They are muted green with the pattern worked in white. The thumbs have narrow vertical stripes.

The chart and instructions below show how to knit the pattern at the top of the palm.

My two mitts don’t have this pattern starting in the same place. The one on the left is how I meant both to be. (It’s fine, I don’t care, I just want to make sure you know the chart matches how I knit it on the left.)

Rows of the smallest possible diamond shape in stranded knitting (it could also be interpreted as a small four-pointed star or plus sign) alternate with zigzag rows of dots, all on a muted green background.
  • Dots and Diamonds has a repeat of 4 + 1 columns. It’s got two setup rows, and then a pattern repeat of 10 or 10 + 5 rows. (End after either row 7 or 12). With the setup, that makes a repeat of 10 + 2 or 10 + 7 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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Setup Rounds:

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

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

Main Repeat:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Repeat Rounds 3-12 as desired, ending after either Round 7 or Round 12.