Tag: design process

Using a stitch pattern: converting from flat to round and vice versa

This is the third and final part of my very basic series about how to use a stitch pattern. Here

Periodically I blog about some of my knitting experiments – I call these études, after the kind of musical exercises.

A year and a half ago, I wrote a blog post about a pair of socks I was knitting for

I have pretty much given up trying to invent a form of knitted filet lace, where filet lace is defined

Sometimes I like to try exercises in knitting stitch design as a way of exploring the possibilities. These are what

Swatching serves many purposes in knitting. There is the basic gauge swatch, which should (in theory) help the knitter pick

The last time I visited the topic of a knitted version of filet lace, I had come up with a

Somehow, the more I hang around other knitters, the more I end up with bags of random skeins from yarn

Figuring out how to make the diamonds that tile nicely for a crescent shawl has felt rather like trying to

When I posted Galaxite on Saturday, I wrote in passing about using a tiled flattened diamond to create the stitch