Maud: a charted border for any craft

Using two stitch patterns next to each other will sometimes give me an idea for a combined version. This border is something I thought of after knitting myself mitts. I combined and slightly modified the place where the two designs on the back come together.

When I can’t think of a descriptive name for my designs, I often give them people names. The name “Maud” just popped into my head; the design isn’t named for a specific person.

When I come up with a charted design, 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.)

a horizontal green border on a cream background; both look somewhat like knitting stitches. The border has shapes vaguely like cream diamonds with green plus marks in the middle, and a more ornate angular green pattern around that with dots and more plus marks.
Chart showing how to work the Maud border by means of dark and light squares. Written instructions in blog post.
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  • Maud has a repeat of 6 + 1 columns and 15 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, *2A, 1B, 3A; work from *.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Round 11: work knit as follows; 1B, *2B, 1A, 3B; work from *.

Round 12: work knit as follows; 1A, *1A, 3B, 2A; work from *.

Round 13: work knit as follows; 1B, *(2A, 1B) × 2; 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 *.