Category: designing

Pseudo random layouts

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

There are whole books and articles arguing about whether surface pattern design has a grammar. I am not much for

When I was knitting the Starry Flowers stitch pattern last week, its appearance reminded me a little of Star Rib

Karie Westermann has written a fascinating series of posts about lace knitting on her Patreon (I’ve linked the first, but

Over the last few years I’ve had various people ask me if Stitch Maps could be useful to me in

The questions people ask me say a lot about their (pretty reasonable) assumptions about knitting design and stitch pattern design.

Aside from just loving the stitch patterns from the Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible, I have been wanting to apply some