Category: designing

Poetic rhyme schemes and knitting design

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

I’m gradually rewriting my knitting “secret code” posts. I’m publishing the new versions as blog posts. This is the next

Swatching serves many purposes in knitting. There is the basic gauge swatch, which should (in theory) help the knitter pick

I’ve recently been having conversations in person with a variety of people about my methods for turning words into stitches.

In my last post about flattened diamonds, I talked about the problem of dealing with a diamond when the desired