Tag: outtakes

Knitted lace where the holes make a pattern like stylized butterflies, with one small pair of wings, one larger pair of wings, and a tiny hole for the head.

Oak Butterflies

Posted on November 15, 2024 by Naomi Parkhurst

There are lots of butterflies with oak in their name, or which rely on oak trees in one way or

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The ornate edges from Figure 1 have been replaced by multiple repeats of the borders from between the original vertical bands. Half of the repeats have been slid downwards by half a repeat to make the blips alternate with each other.

Combining vertical bands

Posted on June 27, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

Part of what was running through my mind when I was working on all those extracts from the Quirky charted

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a combination of the examples of both charts below. On one side are evenly spaced vertical lines with short horizontal bars sticking out of them, spaced regularly along the line. On the other side, the lines are spaced more densely, and the bars on every other line are staggered vertically.

Quirky excerpt 3: two charted designs for any craft

Posted on June 21, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

When I looked at the charted design I posted for Quirky, I immediately saw that it was made up of

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how quirky excerpt 2 might look as stranded knitting. Dark square boxes are laid out on a grid. There are vertical dark lines between them with occasional blips sticking out to each side, framing the boxes.

Quirky excerpt 2: a charted design for any craft

Posted on June 13, 2023June 21, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

When I looked at the charted design I posted last week for Quirky, I immediately saw that it was made

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How Quirky excerpt 1 might look as stranded knitting: ornate vertical bands with wavy geometric floral patterns alternate with narrow vertical lines with little blips sticking out periodically.

Quirky excerpt 1: a charted design for any craft

Posted on June 8, 2023June 21, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

When I looked at the charted design I posted last week for Quirky, I immediately saw that it was made

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How the Stars in the Sky charted design might look as stranded knitting. Columns of incomplete six-pointed stars surround four-pointed stars. The stars are blue on a white background.

Stars in the sky: a charted design for any craft

Posted on April 14, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

This stitch pattern is based on one of the columns in the Kelpies charted design. When I first drew this

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how Diamond Waves might look as stranded knitting. Tall skinny diamonds in columns with wavy white lines between them.

Diamond Waves: a charted design

Posted on February 15, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

Sometimes when I design a larger stitch pattern, there’s a part of it that I think would be good as

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knitted sample of Kelpie mesh lace.

Kelpie lace mesh knitting stitch pattern

Posted on January 10, 2023January 17, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

When I was finishing my Kelpie hexagon sampler, I realized that there was one row of lace that would make

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knitted sample of Kelpie lace hexagon 4. It's got more holes in it than Kelpie lace hexagon 3, like a grid of alternating knit stitches and holes framed inside hexagons.

Kelpie lace hexagon 4: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on December 20, 2022January 17, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

This is the last hexagon of a series of coordinating stitch patterns that would work to make a kind of

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knitted sample of kelpie lace hexagon 3

Kelpie lace hexagon 3: a lace knitting stitch pattern

Posted on December 13, 2022January 17, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

This is the third of a series of coordinating stitch patterns that would work to make a kind of gradient

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