String Geekery – Page 4 – by Naomi Parkhurst, Gannet Designs

A drawing of how the Cicada chart might look as two-color knitting. Blue shapes like tops or paper lanterns alternate on a pale background with some speckles scattered about.

Cicada: a charted design for any craft

Posted on July 2, 2024July 23, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

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

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Vertical panels of lace columns kind of like overlapping fans with more solid knitting between, all in light blue yarn.

Cicada: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on July 2, 2024July 23, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

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

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A drawing of how the Snowflake counterchange chart might look as two-color knitting. It looks like alternating columns of large beads on strings, where blue bead strings are nested between white bead strings. There are blue motifs on the white beads and white motifs on the blue. The motifs are vertical rectangles with a horizontal line cutting them in half and sticking out to either side.

Melissa: a charted design for any craft

Posted on June 26, 2024July 23, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

After coming up with last week’s snowflake counterchange design, I realized that I could use the same basic layout as

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A drawing of how the Snowflake counterchange chart might look as two-color knitting. It looks like alternating columns of large beads on strings, where blue bead strings are nested between white bead strings. There are blue snowflakes on the white beads and white snowflakes on the blue.

Snowflake Counterchange: a charted design for any craft

Posted on June 17, 2024July 23, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

Last week I posted a variant of the Bubble charted design and remarked that it was not quite a proper

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A drawing of how the Bubble variant chart might look as two-color knitting. It looks like alternating columns of large beads on strings, where blue bead strings are nested between white bead strings. There are blue snowflakes on the white beads and white snowflakes on the blue.

Bubble variant: a charted design for any craft

Posted on June 10, 2024July 23, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

When I was working on the Bubble charted design, I noticed that it looked as if I might be able

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illustration of how the Bubble charted design might look as two-color knitting. It's got alternating eight-sided shapes that aren't true octogons; half of them are light-blue with dark blue stylized snowflakes; the other half are dark blue with a light blue boxy shape.

Bubble: a charted design for any craft

Posted on June 2, 2024July 23, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

The random number generator picked Bubble from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Affienia, one of my Patreon supporters.

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Knitted sample of Bubble lace. Horizontal bands of ornate lace with flower buds and something like fern fronds.

Bubble: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on June 2, 2024July 23, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

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

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How the Wild charted design might look as stranded knitting. It's kind of the opposite of wild: very regular dots and dashes in two shades of green in vertical columns on a pale green background.

Wild: a charted design for any craft

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

A long time ago, I developed a charted design for the word Wilderness. I was still a new designer, so

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An illustration of how the Constellations charted design might look as stranded knitting: a circle of individual white flecks on a blue background, with a four petaled white flower in the middle.

Constellations: a charted design for any craft

Posted on May 7, 2024July 23, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

I’ve seen this motif in a couple of my other charted designs, and I liked it so much that I

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the Xiphoid charted design drawn as if it were two color knitting. There are twp alternating horizontal patterned bands: one of ornate diamonds, and one of tall rectangles with short lines crossing the sides.

Xiphoid: a charted design for any craft

Posted on May 1, 2024August 19, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

The random number generator picked Xiphoid from the suggestions for this post, suggested by MLW, one of my Patreon supporters.

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