Posts Tagged “stitch maps”
Traveling
By JC | November 5, 2013
Next up in the series of patterns updated to include stitch maps is the Traveling Vines scarf. I don’t know what I like most about this scarf: its yarn, Windsor Farms Rabbitry Angora Blizzard, or its stitch pattern, Traveling Vines. Way nicer as a stitch map, don’t you think? Speaking of traveling… tomorrow I’m headed […]
Collecting
By JC | October 20, 2013
Yesterday I visited Rhinebeck for the first time, and what did I do? Buy fiber and yarn? Nope, I don’t spin, and my yarn stash overfloweth already. Instead, I did a little collecting: Some people collect stamps, or butterflies. Me, I collect stitch patterns. These I found “in the wild,” on samples hanging in vendor […]
What have I been doing for the past couple months? Not blogging, clearly. Not knitting, either. Rather, I’ve been working on this: And this: And this: They’re “stitch maps,” knitting charts drawn without grids so you can see what the fabric is really doing. You can read more about them (and play with them!) at […]