String Geekery – Page 7 – by Naomi Parkhurst, Gannet Designs

closeup of the 2024 gathered stitch pattern - textured groups of stitches form a small zigzag that goes up a short way, down twice as far. and then up to the original starting height. The lines of texture are not solid -- it's like drawing zigzags with a dotted line.

2024: a knitting stitch pattern (and also a charted design for any craft)

Posted on January 1, 2024 by Naomi Parkhurst

Happy New Year! Every year, I design a knitting stitch pattern by charting the digits for the upcoming year. I

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a horizontal green border on a cream background; both look somewhat like knitting stitches. The border has shapes vaguely like cream diamonds with green plus marks in the middle, and a more ornate angular green pattern around that with dots and more plus marks.

Maud: a charted border for any craft

Posted on December 29, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

Using two stitch patterns next to each other will sometimes give me an idea for a combined version. This border

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Rows of the smallest possible diamond shape in stranded knitting (it could also be interpreted as a small four-pointed star or plus sign) alternate with zigzag rows of dots, all on a muted green background.

Dots and Diamonds: a charted design for any craft

Posted on December 12, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

This is the second chart I used in knitting the palms of a pair of mitts I made for myself.

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Light vertical dashes that are three stitches long alternate with one-stitch dots vertically and horizontally, with a muted green background in between. The stitches are drawn to look somewhat like knitted.

Dots and Dashes: a charted design for any craft

Posted on December 6, 2023December 12, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

I posted the charted designs I incorporated on the backs of some mitts I knit for myself and said I’d

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How the Vox charted design might look as stranded knitting. There are angled lines that touch each other in some places and approximate it in others, so that they make an effect of almost-diamonds nested in larger almost-diamonds.

Vox: a charted design for any craft

Posted on December 1, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

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

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Columns of lace knitting where the groups of holes look somewhat like longwing butterflies with larger holes between them.

Vox: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on December 1, 2023January 8, 2024 by Naomi Parkhurst

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

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The back (and more public) side of the mitts. The top part of the pattern is a more ornate design, while the bottom is repeated pixelated circles with plus signs in the middles. The mitts are sage green and light grey. All the edges are in sage green ribbing.

Some mitts and the charted designs I used, part one

Posted on November 15, 2023December 12, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

I improvised some fingerless mitts for myself using my own stitch patterns because I needed warm hands and wanted to

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how this variant of the Gourd charted design might look as stranded knitting. There's two diamond shapes with elongated cross marks in the center. Some are horizontal and some vertical, and there's bands of checkerboard pattern.

Gourd variant: a charted design for any craft

Posted on November 6, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

When I posted the Gourd charted design, I couldn’t help but notice that there were two sections that were almost

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A rectangle of the five Hyla charted design variants stacked one on top of the next, and then turned on its side. There are wavy lines that are consistent across the rectangle, with slightly different diamonds between them from variant to variant.

Combining the Hyla chart variants

Posted on November 3, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

Each of the Hyla charted design variants has the same stitch and row count, and elements that are the same

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How the Gourd charted design might look as two color knitting in orange ang green. Overlapping oval outlines with stripes of a checkerboard pattern and a truncated diamond in the middle of each over.

Gourd: a charted design for any craft

Posted on November 1, 2023November 6, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

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

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