Iceberg: a charted design for any craft

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Way back in 2015, I encoded the word Iceberg as lace knitting and as a charted design. I didn’t make a proper illustration and instructions for the charted design, as I didn’t really have a clear idea how to do that yet. So I’m making a new post for the charted design, now that I have a better template for that.

This should be a usable chart and instructions for any craft that’s worked on a grid: texture knitting, stranded knitting, cross stitch, or pixel art.

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 stranded knitting.)

Art showing how this chart might look as stranded knitting. There are vertical bands of small chevrons and short horizontal lines, and at each edge there are diagonal fronds. Where two repeats meet, this makes a feathery effect. The colors are teal against white.
chart showing how to work the Iceberg design using dark and light squares. Written instructions in blog post.
  • Iceberg has a repeat of 26 + 1 columns and 3 rounds.
  • 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, *1B, 2A, 2B, 7A, 1B, 7A, 2B, 2A, 1B, 1A; work from *.

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

Round 3: work knit as follows; 1A, *1B, 1A, 2B, 3A, 2B, 7A, 2B, 3A, 2B, 1A, 1B, 1A; work from *.