Category: designing

The layout of Guitar lace

When I posted Guitar lace last week, I said that there was something unusual about the layout. I’m going to

Over the years, I’ve built up a procedure for making my stitch patterns that’s as efficient as I think I

(Not that I numbered the first two, but they’re visible under the hex lace tag, along with the relevant stitch

This is not a complete design process; I just wanted to share a few of the things I thought about

In Combining Vertical Bands, I shared some ways that vertical pattern bands can be put together to make different effects

Part of what was running through my mind when I was working on all those extracts from the Quirky charted

I’ve just finished knitting 65 squares from scrap sock yarn, and it was time to plan how to lay them

I realized when I was working on the Kelpie lace hexagon patterns that I wanted to stop and explain in

I mostly haven’t done much with designing knit-purl patterns with my secret code grids, but I thought it might be

A while back, I designed some lace based on the word Sprout. Every time I’ve recently had reason to look