Cogitating
One of the things I’ve always wanted Stitch-Maps.com to be able to do is highlight the spaces between stitch columns.
Or, to put it another way, to break …
...moreA little surreal
You know how I’ve said that I drew stitch maps by hand, long before developing Stitch-Maps.com? Well, I found a little proof today. And it was a little …
...morePavonated
So, as I was saying, I knit one of Hunter’s Curls a few weeks back. Now, one of the (many!) awesome things about Curls is that you can use …
...moreCurls
Guess what I have?
It’s a copy of Curls: Versatile, Wearable Wraps to Knit at Any Gauge. Whee! So many pretty patterns.
For months now, …
...moreStill learning
Yesterday, in the Stitch-Maps.com news article announcing the availability of symbols for Estonian gathers, I mentioned that stitch maps are awesome for seeing which stitches to knit loosely on …
...moreMore swatching
Yesterday I spent an obscene amount of time swatching, not to choose yarn, or needle size, or stitch pattern, but get this: to figure out how to shape some lace …
...moreRosebuds
Sometimes I’m a little slow on the uptake. Stitch-Maps.com had been up and running for a few months before I started making use of stitch maps in the classes that …
...moreCoronet, addendum
The original plan was to map a doily pattern and convert it to a wedge shape. But once that was done, I found I couldn’t stop fiddling.
Looking at …
...moreCoronet, step 1
Over the weekend I was seized by the need to map a lace doily pattern and convert it to a wedge shape. (You know, because I just can’t get enough …
...moreNew Vintage Lace
Have you seen New Vintage Lace? I love this book! Andrea Jurgrau takes vintage doily patterns, lifts out and rejiggers their intricate motifs, and reinvents them as stunning hats, …
...moreA change of heart
You know how I said Stitch-Maps.com would throw up its hands and say, “I can’t do that” when asked to draw a cable cross on a WS row? Well, …
...moreThe WS conundrum
Cable crosses are typically worked on right-side rows. But what if Stitch-Maps.com is asked to draw a cable cross on a wrong-side row? What should it do then?
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...moreWhere to draw the line?
With hundreds of possible cable crosses, where should Stitch-Maps.com draw the line? Which cable crosses should it support, at least at first?
To figure this out, I pulled …
...moreA matter of legibility
Like I said, I think most cabled stitch patterns are best charted using traditional, grid-based charts. Then you can use simple, streamlined symbols like these:
But with …
...moreThe LT/RT controversy
When it comes to cable cross abbreviations like 2/2 RC, the StitchMastery Knitting Chart Editor really gets it right. That piece of charting software recognizes a slew of cable cross …
...moreChoosing abbreviations
The first step in adding support for a new set of stitches to Stitch-Maps.com is figuring out what abbreviations to recognize. Which bits of text should map (no pun intended!) …
...moreMusings
Don’t get me wrong. The grand majority of the time, I think that cabled stitch patterns, like knit/purl patterns, are best charted using traditional grid-based charts. The grid provides structure, …
...moreSlightly obsessed
In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m a bit obsessed with stitch patterns. So it’s no surprise that, as I’m flipping through Textured Stitches by Connie Chang Chinchio, part of …
...moreTwo-fer
Remember how I said I was going to update my patterns to include stitch maps? Yeah, that project fell by the wayside. (Too many projects! Too little time!)
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...moreJolie, revisited
Long-time readers of this blog will remember Jolie, a lace scarf knit in Berroco Ultra Alpaca Fine.
Ditto my rantings on how its edging …
...moreTraveling
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 …
...moreCollecting
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 …
...moreThe cat is outta the bag
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:
