Category: knitting

Knitted sample of Happen lace. Alternating columns of two different designs with wavy edges; one column has almond shapes outlined by holes; the other has something like snowdrops in it.

Happen: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on January 2, 2024August 22, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Happen, suggested by Enting, a Patreon

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Columns of lace knitting where the groups of holes look somewhat like longwing butterflies with larger holes between them.

Vox: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on December 1, 2023August 22, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Vox, suggested by Catnach, a Patreon

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knitted sample of Gourd lace. Strong zigzags going up and down with almond shapes at the points. There are lacey holes in between the zigzags.

Gourd: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on November 1, 2023August 22, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Gourd, suggested by Rin, a Patreon

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1/1 right cable cross: how to work one the way I do it

Posted on October 9, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

The basic principle of cable knitting is that after knitting a cable, one or more stitches will be crossed over

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Knitted sample of Scribe lace, resembling some kind of underwater scene with waves and seaweed or sea creatures.

Scribe: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on October 2, 2023November 3, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Scribe, suggested by Enting, a Patreon

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knitted sample of the Twist cable. vertical bands of interlaced diamonds have vertical borders that sometimes cross over and weave in and out of each other.

Twist: a cable knitting stitch pattern

Posted on September 1, 2023October 2, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Twist, suggested by Kate, a Patreon

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Alternate 1/1 cable crosses

Posted on August 21, 2023August 21, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

The instructions for 1/1 cable crosses in my stitch patterns are written with cable needles, but there’s at least three

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Knitted sample of the meta Cable lace/cable design. Twisted lines in vertical bars sometimes move to the sides to make not-quite-diamond shapes filled with lace.

meta Cable: a cable and lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on August 1, 2023August 31, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Cable, suggested by Molly, a Patreon

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dark brown yarn and pale variegated yarn in shades of tan and cream make alternating dark and light patterned stripes. Three quarters of the stripes have a pattern of vertical dots and dashes. The remaining bands are like boxy figure 8s.

Exclamations: a mosaic knitting chart

Posted on July 17, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

I didn’t know what I wanted to do for this blog post and so I wondered what was a kind

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Knitted sample of Ease lace. Diamond shapes contain a lacy pattern with a twisted helix shape in the middle. The top and bottom edges are wavy.

Ease: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on July 1, 2023June 30, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Ease, suggested by Kate, a Patreon

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