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by Naomi Parkhurst, Gannet Designs

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Winter lace, edited

Posted on October 15, 2024 by Naomi Parkhurst

This week I have edited the instructions and chart for Winter lace, published a decade ago. (Some things were unclear

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How the meta Shetland chart might look as two color knitting. It's a horizontal stripe of patterned two-color knitting, with stylized pairs of hearts, one of each pair being upside down, and some other flecks and short stripes. The colors are various shades of brown.

Meta Shetland: a charted design for any craft

Posted on October 2, 2024 by Naomi Parkhurst

The random number generator picked Shetland from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Amanda McCartney, one of my Patreon

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Knitted sample of meta Shetland lace. It looks like tiled, slightly squished diamonds with holes inside them that look like fans or shells.

Meta Shetland: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on October 2, 2024November 1, 2024 by Naomi Parkhurst

The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Shetland, suggested by Amanda McCartney, a

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Art showing how this chart might look as stranded knitting. There are vertical bands of small chevrons and short horizontal lines, and at each edge there are diagonal fronds. Where two repeats meet, this makes a feathery effect. The colors are teal against white.

Iceberg: a charted design for any craft

Posted on September 27, 2024 by Naomi Parkhurst

Way back in 2015, I encoded the word Iceberg as lace knitting and as a charted design. I didn’t make

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updated Iceberg lace

Posted on September 20, 2024 by Naomi Parkhurst

This week I’ve edited the chart and instructions for Iceberg lace, which I posted back in 2015. I plan to

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technical difficulties

Posted on September 13, 2024 by Naomi Parkhurst

I’m having tech issues and will be back next week!

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Two gridded rectangles with yarnovers in some of the squares. One is placed next to the other, but dropped down so the top of one rectangle is halfway down the side of the other.

The layout of Guitar lace

Posted on September 6, 2024September 6, 2024 by Naomi Parkhurst

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

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How the Guitar charted design might look as stranded knitting in two shades of blue. It doesn't look like a guitar. Abstract dark diamonds with rounded corners have light blue squares in their centers. There are some wiggly darker blue lines in between the diamonds, as well as groups of four blue speckles forming the points of different squares.

Guitar: a charted design for any craft

Posted on September 1, 2024 by Naomi Parkhurst

The random number generator picked Guitar from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Jeannette Belle, one of my Patreon

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Knitted sample of Guitar lace in light blue yarn. Columns of mostly solid knitting with diagonal decrease lines and a few holes in diagonal lines alternate with columns of lots of holes that zigzag upward.

Guitar: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on September 1, 2024October 10, 2024 by Naomi Parkhurst

The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Guitar, suggested by Jeannette Belle, a

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Throwback Thursday: Zaftig lace

Posted on August 22, 2024 by Naomi Parkhurst

I’m not in a good position to write a new blog post this week, so I’m going to share a

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