Greenland: a needlework chart for any craft

A long time ago, I encoded the word Greenland as both lace and a needlework chart as suggested by Ron, a Patreon backer. I didn’t really have a good routine in place for the needlework charts at that time, and had trouble even choosing a chart I thought was best from the possibilities. But now I’ve picked one I like a lot and came up with a layout I think shows it off well.

I don’t know that I’ll do something like this for all of my oldest needlework charts, but here’s a proper chart that has repeat borders in it, written instructions, and also an image showing how the pattern looks when it’s repeated.

I did make one small change in where the chart repeats because it was easy and I like it better.

Equinox: a needlework chart for any craft

A long time ago, I encoded the word equinox as both lace and a needlework chart. I didn’t really have a good routine in place for the needlework charts at that time. I don’t know that I’ll do something like this for all of them, but here’s a new post for the Equinox needlework with a proper chart that has repeat borders in it, written instructions, and also an image showing how the pattern looks when it’s repeated.

I did make one small change in where the chart repeats because it was easy and I like it better.

While the chart is dark on light, I made the illustration light on dark because the word equinox evokes a night sky for me (even though that’s not really what the equinox is about). I’ve included a dark on light version at the end of the post in case that’s something that matters for you.

Happy Labor Day!

I’m not going to do any work today, because it’s Labor Day in the US, but here’s a blast from the past for you, a favorite stitch pattern of mine: Rain.

Worldwide Knit in Public Day

Tomorrow is Worldwide Knit in Public Day, and so here’s a link to two stitch patterns I designed in previous years to go with that:

1. a colorwork design
2. a lace stitch pattern

These are a few of my favorite posts

I drew a complete blank about what to write about this week. (It happens to everyone sometimes!) Instead, I’m going to share some links to some of my favorite technique posts that I’ve written.

In honor of the total eclipse today

I encoded eclipse as a stitch pattern in 2014; you can find the instructions here.

It includes both lace and a chart for stranded knitting or any craft that uses a grid (needlepoint, filet crochet, cross stitch, etc.)

Stitch flashback: skulls

New content is still on hiatus while I work on a big project. Instead, since we’re coming up on Halloween, I’m going to link to a stitch pattern I made that accidentally looked like skulls. (By the way, the human tendency to see random images as faces and so on is called pareidolia. 

Throwback Thursday: a chain loop bind-off worked with knitting needles

A handy way to work this sort of bind-off without a crochet hook.

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Looking at older posts

There’s a thing on Twitter, and probably elsewhere, where people post on Thursdays about things they were doing in the past. I’ve been thinking recently that I have a bunch of older posts I enjoyed making that I made when my blog audience was much smaller.

Throwback Thursday seems like a good excuse to share them. I hope you’ll agree!

Back in 2012, I did a whole series of posts on picking out color schemes from photographs using a range of computer tools. Here’s a link to the first; the whole set can be seen using the color exercises tag. (There’s some other posts on color as well.)