Category: designing

Random Thoughts about the meta Cable lace cable design

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

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