Guitar: a charted design for any craft

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

I developed a lace stitch pattern for Guitar, 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 usually don’t try to make it look like knitting when it’s got floats too long for easy stranded knitting. I forgot not to this time, but there is a technique called ladderback knitting that can help make it work.

How the Guitar charted design might look as stranded knitting in two shades of blue. It doesn't look like a guitar. Abstract dark diamonds with rounded corners have light blue squares in their centers. There are some wiggly darker blue lines in between the diamonds, as well as groups of four blue speckles forming the points of different squares.
Chart showing how to work the Guitar design by means of dark and light squares. Written instructions in blog post.
click chart to enlarge.
  • The Guitar charted design has a repeat of 12 columns and 12 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; *2A, 1B, 6A, 1B, 2A; work from *.

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

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

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

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

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

Round 7: work knit as follows; *3A, 2B, 2A, 2B, 3A; work from *.

Round 8: work knit as follows; *1A, 1B, 2A, 4B, 2A, 1B, 1A; work from *.

Round 9: work knit as follows; *5A, 2B, 5A; work from *.

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

Round 11: work knit as follows; *1A, 2B, 6A, 2B, 1A; work from *.

Round 12: work knit as follows; *2A, 1B, 6A, 1B, 2A; work from *.