Tag: stitch pattern

How the Wild charted design might look as stranded knitting. It's kind of the opposite of wild: very regular dots and dashes in two shades of green in vertical columns on a pale green background.

Wild: a charted design for any craft

Posted on May 23, 2024May 23, 2024 by Naomi Parkhurst

A long time ago, I developed a charted design for the word Wilderness. I was still a new designer, so

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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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How the Hyla version 4 chart might look as stranded knitting. Stylized wavy vertical lines are mirrored so that there are regular almost-ovals between them. In those spaces, there's shapes like mirrored angle brackets with a dot in the middle. There are even more dots added to the pattern in version 4 making it so the center diamonds are complete and have elongated vertical points.

Hyla, version 4: a charted design for any craft

Posted on October 19, 2023October 24, 2023 by Naomi Parkhurst

Here’s version four of the Hyla charted design. I’m posting several variations over several weeks; I liked them all and

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2015: an updated needlework chart for any craft

Posted on October 28, 2021December 31, 2022 by Naomi Parkhurst

A while ago, I encoded the year 2015 as both lace and a needlework chart. I didn’t really have a

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