String Geekery – Page 6 – by Naomi Parkhurst, Gannet Designs

A row of elongated dark blue diamonds in with a medium blue stylized chain going horizontally across the middle. Each chain link has a yellow dot in the middle.

Honk: a charted design for any craft

Posted on March 4, 2024August 19, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

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

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A drawing of three cast-on stitches using this technique.

Looping provisional cast-on: stitch structure

Posted on February 21, 2024August 19, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

I was going to explain the structure of the KYOK increase (k1, yo, k1, all in one stitch) next, but

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Yarnover: stitch structure

Posted on February 12, 2024August 19, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

I’ve been writing a series about blog posts about knitting stitch structure and have been focusing on increases. Today’s post

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Illustration showing how the Lanterns charted design might look as stranded knitting in brown and yellow yarn. Stylized lantern shapes alternate with abstract diamonds in vertical lines, which alternate horizontally with offset versions of the same pattern.

Lanterns: a charted design for any craft

Posted on February 6, 2024August 19, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

When I was posting the Happen charted design, I realized that it reminded me of another, so I scrolled back

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Slightly complex V-shapes or leaf shapes alternate like scales, pointing upward

Fresh: a charted design for any craft

Posted on February 1, 2024August 22, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

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

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a lace panel has been rotated to fit in the featured image. Two bands of hexagonal mesh alternate with a central solid band that has hexagons or snowflakes made of openwork hexagons in them.

Fresh: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on February 1, 2024August 22, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

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

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Knitted hexagon mesh where each hexagon appears to have been outlined slightly haphazardly with four strands of yarn

Complexagons: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on January 29, 2024August 22, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

I was knitting a honeycomb mesh gauge swatch, and kept wondering what it would look like if I tried a

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columns of textured knitted lace with angled lines and V shapes alternate with columns of horizontal ridges of knitting

Longways: a garter lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on January 24, 2024August 22, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

I’m in the midst of designing a shawl. I was considering making it a garter lace shawl, and I swatched

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Designs that use my stitch patterns

Posted on January 17, 2024August 22, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

If you’ve ever wanted to make something with my stitch patterns but didn’t want to design something from scratch, these

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horizontal bands of a motif that's been flipped up and down to make a zigzag band. Each motif looks kind of like a stylized airplane from the front.

Meg: a charted design for any craft

Posted on January 12, 2024August 22, 2025 by Naomi Parkhurst

I have a collection of small motifs that I’ve seen in charts I’ve generated with my word encoding methods. Sometimes

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