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Honk: a charted design for any craft

The random number generator picked Honk from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Kate, one of my Patreon supporters. I developed a lace knitting stitch pattern for Honk, but I also like to...

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Honk: a lace knitting stitch pattern

As I remarked on Patreon when I drew the word for this post, sometimes my backers suggest evocative, poetic words that I appreciate for their beauty. And sometimes, they’re a little silly, which is...

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KYOK: stitch structure

I am gradually working through showing the structures of a variety of knitting stitches, to illustrate, step by step, the path the yarn takes to make each technique. This post is about a double...

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If you would like to get email notifications of new blog posts, there’s a new form in the sidebar, or you can subscribe at my new mailing list website. If you were receiving email notifications before...

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Partial stitch structure post: (k1, p1, k1) along another strand of yarn

So far as I know, this isn’t a real cast-on, but I wanted to show the structure of the particular sequence from (k1, p1, k1) in one stitch with more room, so I’ve drawn this by analogy with the...

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K1, p1, k1 all in one stitch: a stitch structure post

This time I’m explaining the structure of the double increase that is often described as (k1, p1, k1) in 1 stitch to show the way it’s different from the kyok double increase. (A double increase adds...

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Cedar: a lace knitting stitch pattern

The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Cedar, suggested by Enting, a Patreon supporter. This word turned out to be really tricky when I tried to use my usual encoding...

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Cedar: a charted design for any craft

The random number generator picked Cedar from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Enting, one of my Patreon supporters. I developed a lace stitch pattern for Cedar but I also like to provide a...

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Throwback Thursday: Raven lace

It was brought to my attention this week that my instructions for how to knit my Raven lace were missing half the rows, which meant that it was impossible to knit something that matched the swatch....

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Fred: a charted design for any craft

Sometimes when I’m working on a charted design, one of my drafts that doesn’t get published will have a motif I like in it. I like to save those and play with them later. This is one of those motifs;...

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