Designing with honeycomb mesh in lace, part 3
(Not that I numbered the first two, but they’re visible under the hex lace tag, along with the relevant stitch
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Tag: design techniques
How to figure out if a chart can be used for mosaic knitting
I shared a needlework image on twitter last month (it was a blooper chart for Sunrise), and a twitter friend
Continue readingOn swatching, part 3
A couple of weeks ago, I started a series of posts about how I knit the swatches for my stitch
Continue readingRolled up: a free lace knitting stitch pattern
One thing I’ve noticed over the last nine (!!!) years of learning to design lace, is that it’s easier to
Continue readingCharting mosaic knitting in StitchMastery
It occurs to me that it might be helpful (for other designers at least) to explain how I use my
Continue readingObscure telegram methods and encoded knit cables
Recently, a friend on social media linked to an article about the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph system, which used something
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Étude no. 13: making a coordinating stitch pattern
There’s a lot of shawls and sweaters that make use of fancy lace, but that also have sections of simpler
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More on hex lace
My first post on what I’m starting to think of as hex lace (though I’m sure someone has a different
Continue readingReally the last flattened diamond post.
In my last post about flattened diamonds, I talked about the problem of dealing with a diamond when the desired
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One last flattened diamond stitch pattern blog post… for now
Figuring out how to make the diamonds that tile nicely for a crescent shawl has felt rather like trying to
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