String Geekery – Page 3 – by Naomi Parkhurst, Gannet Designs

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, 2024July 18, 2025 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, 2024July 18, 2025 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, 2024July 23, 2025 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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Knitted sample of Elsa lace. One narrow panel of lace with a bold center line that's solid with occasional rosebud shapes, with a vertical line of holes to either side. Surrounding the panel is plain knitting. All of this is in yellow yarn.

Elsa: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on August 9, 2024July 23, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

This lace panel is the result of looking again at Crisp lace. It’s not quite an excerpt from that; I’ve

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A drawing of how the Fleece charted design might look in a finished object using squares in three colors: the background is cream. There are pixelated tan ovals with darker brown squares in them alternating with crenellated darker brown square outlines with tan squares inside them.

Fleece: a charted design for any craft

Posted on August 1, 2024July 23, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

The random number generator picked Fleece from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Cathy D., one of my Patreon

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Knitted sample of Fleece lace. Undulating lines make tiled shapes called ogees — like ovals but with curved points at the tops and bottoms. There is a V-shaped set of wide holes in the bottom of each ogee. The lace is knit in natural white yarn laid on dark blue velvet for the photo.

Fleece: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on August 1, 2024July 23, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Fleece, suggested by Cathy D, a

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Something a bit different

Posted on July 24, 2024 by Naomi Parkhurst

It used to be pretty common for people who had their own websites to have a list of links they

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Wavy blue columns alternated with wavy pale blue columns. There are pale blue checkered diamonds on the dark columns, and vice versa.

Counterchange checkerboards: a charted design for any craft

Posted on July 19, 2024July 23, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

A further exploration of this particular layout. I think it’s interesting how the layout itself looks a bit different (curvier

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A snarl of blue yarn that has emerged from the middle of a center pull ball.

A hazard of a center pull yarn ball and how to deal with it

Posted on July 12, 2024July 23, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

Center pull balls of yarn are great – you can pull yarn out from the middle of them and not

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Some thoughts about work processes

Posted on July 5, 2024July 23, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

Over the years, I’ve built up a procedure for making my stitch patterns that’s as efficient as I think I

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