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by Naomi Parkhurst, Gannet Designs

  • Embedding Meaning in Your Knitting (or other crafts)
    • Secret code summary
    • Converting Words to Numbers
    • Making a grid
    • Simple secret code rib knitting
    • Converting grids to stitch patterns
    • Asymmetry or Symmetry?
    • Other methods of encryption
    • Cables
    • Lace
    • Various projects and patterns using these methods
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    • Embedding Meaning in Your Knitting (or other crafts)
  • Stitch structure posts
How the Release needlework chart might look as stranded knitting. There are horizontal bold geometric blue abd grey bands with zigzag edges, alternating with bands of diamonds made of blue speckles on a grey background. The speckled diamonds recede into the background.

Release: a needlework chart for any craft

Posted on December 1, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

The random number generator picked Release from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Jeanette B., one of my Patreon

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knitted sample of Release lace. It has repeating arches of hoes in it, along with rounded diamonds with trefoil-shaped holes.

Release: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on December 1, 2022January 17, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Release, suggested by Jeanette B., a

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One hand wearing one of the mitts. The stripes are vertical. There’s a vertical slit for the thumb hole. The base of the thumb is entirely uncovered.

Cold hands means knitting mitts

Posted on November 25, 2022November 28, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

Before I ever started selling designs and doing stitch patterns for Patreon, I blogged about my personal craft projects. Gradually

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Four sets of lace hexagons, each set progressively having more open areas. At one end, there’s a set of mesh made of alternating lines of yarnovers and either decreases or knit stitches.

Étude no. 27: Kelpies hexagon designs

Posted on November 23, 2022January 17, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

When I was knitting the Kelpies lace, I noticed two sections within the stitch pattern that I thought could be

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Black cat under a red blanket peering out at the world.

End of Hiatus

Posted on November 18, 2022November 18, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

Not my usual kind of blog post, I know, but I’ve been thinking hard about what I want to do

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illustration showing how the Kelpies needlework chart might look as stranded knitting. There's two patterned vertical columns that alternate, one with almost-circles with plus-signs in them, and one with horizontal diamonds with flowers in.

Kelpies: a needlework chart for any craft

Posted on November 2, 2022November 8, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

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

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Kelpies: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on November 2, 2022December 6, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

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

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brief blog hiatus

Posted on October 19, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

Sometimes I need to take a month off from blogging, and it looks like this is one of those times.

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How to cut (some) handknit fabric without problems

Posted on October 6, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

There are many knitters who will look at that subject heading and feel really uncertain about it. If you’ve just

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How Yarrow might look as stranded knitting. It’s got horizontal bands of pattern with bits that look kind of like bow ties.

Yarrow: a needlework chart for any craft

Posted on October 1, 2022October 1, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

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

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About

I'm a knitting designer. I have three basic categories of things that I do.

I publish stitch patterns on the blog. Most of them are what I call secret code patterns: I encode the letters of words as numbers, chart the numbers on grids in various ways, and turn the results into lace knitting, mosaic knitting, other kinds of knitting, and needlework charts. I also publish a variety of other random stitch stitch patterns as they occur to me.

I also have patterns for sale on Payhip. These are mostly patterns for knitted accessories; there is also one crochet/knitting hat pattern

Finally, I write about knitting: I experiment with various knitting techniques, explain existing ones, and talk about fabric structure. I review knitting books. Most of all, I encourage you to try things out and see what you learn from them.

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