Back in September 2014, the word I encoded for my Patreon was Serendipity, as suggested by a patron. At that | Continue reading
There are lots of butterflies with oak in their name, or which rely on oak trees in one way or | Continue reading
The random number generator picked Oak from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Enting, one of my Patreon supporters. | Continue reading
The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Oak, suggested by Enting, a Patreon | Continue reading
This week I have edited the instructions and chart for Winter lace, published a decade ago. (Some things were unclear | Continue reading
The random number generator picked Shetland from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Amanda McCartney, one of my Patreon | Continue reading
The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Shetland, suggested by Amanda McCartney, a | Continue reading
Way back in 2015, I encoded the word Iceberg as lace knitting and as a charted design. I didn’t make | Continue reading
This week I’ve edited the chart and instructions for Iceberg lace, which I posted back in 2015. I plan to | Continue reading
I’m having tech issues and will be back next week! | Continue reading
When I posted Guitar lace last week, I said that there was something unusual about the layout. I’m going to | Continue reading
The random number generator picked Guitar from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Jeannette Belle, one of my Patreon | Continue reading
The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Guitar, suggested by Jeannette Belle, a | Continue reading
I’m not in a good position to write a new blog post this week, so I’m going to share a | Continue reading
This week I’ve decided not to write a whole new blog post, but instead to improve the chart and written | Continue reading
This lace panel is the result of looking again at Crisp lace. It’s not quite an excerpt from that; I’ve | Continue reading
The random number generator picked Fleece from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Cathy D., one of my Patreon | Continue reading
The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Fleece, suggested by Cathy D, a | Continue reading
It used to be pretty common for people who had their own websites to have a list of links they | Continue reading
A further exploration of this particular layout. I think it’s interesting how the layout itself looks a bit different (curvier | Continue reading
Center pull balls of yarn are great – you can pull yarn out from the middle of them and not | Continue reading
Over the years, I’ve built up a procedure for making my stitch patterns that’s as efficient as I think I | Continue reading
The random number generator picked Cicada from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Jeannette Belle, one of my Patreon | Continue reading
The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Cicada, suggested by Jeannette Belle, a | Continue reading
After coming up with last week’s snowflake counterchange design, I realized that I could use the same basic layout as | Continue reading
Last week I posted a variant of the Bubble charted design and remarked that it was not quite a proper | Continue reading
When I was working on the Bubble charted design, I noticed that it looked as if I might be able | Continue reading
The random number generator picked Bubble from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Affienia, one of my Patreon supporters. | Continue reading
The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Bubble, suggested by Affienia, a Patreon | Continue reading
A long time ago, I developed a charted design for the word Wilderness. I was still a new designer, so | Continue reading
this week, instead of posting a new post, I’ve edited the instructions for an old one: Étude no. 2: Stepping | Continue reading
I’ve seen this motif in a couple of my other charted designs, and I liked it so much that I | Continue reading
The random number generator picked Xiphoid from the suggestions for this post, suggested by MLW, one of my Patreon supporters. | Continue reading
The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Xiphoid, suggested by MLW, a Patreon | Continue reading
(Not that I numbered the first two, but they’re visible under the hex lace tag, along with the relevant stitch | Continue reading
Sometimes when I’m working on a charted design, one of my drafts that doesn’t get published will have a motif | Continue reading
It was brought to my attention this week that my instructions for how to knit my Raven lace were missing | Continue reading
The random number generator picked Cedar from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Enting, one of my Patreon supporters. | Continue reading
The word I drew from the words suggested on Patreon for this post is Cedar, suggested by Enting, a Patreon | Continue reading
This time I’m explaining the structure of the double increase that is often described as (k1, p1, k1) in 1 | Continue reading
So far as I know, this isn’t a real cast-on, but I wanted to show the structure of the particular | Continue reading
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I am gradually working through showing the structures of a variety of knitting stitches, to illustrate, step by step, the | Continue reading
As I remarked on Patreon when I drew the word for this post, sometimes my backers suggest evocative, poetic words | Continue reading
The random number generator picked Honk from the suggestions for this post, suggested by Kate, one of my Patreon supporters. | Continue reading
I was going to explain the structure of the KYOK increase (k1, yo, k1, all in one stitch) next, but | Continue reading