Thoughts, projects, and a few yarns from a self taught knitting obsessive and growing crochet enthusiast. (i.e. my escape from the cubical to my happy place)
As promised… here is the chart for the Diamond Design repeat pattern!
You can repeat vertically and horizontally. I plan on incorporating this into several upcoming projects, but I hope you enjoy or find a use for it! Please click on the picture to download a larger version from my flickr account.
Repeating Pattern of the Diamond Design
I finally tested it out, I’ll post the pattern sometime soon! I don’t think it is perfect by any means, but it is mine :)
Diamond Design, #6 - the winner.
Though… I have to admit that I still look at this and want to make some changes! Eek :) haha. Now I’ll need to see if I can put this motif in an actual pattern for a scarf or something! At some point, ya’ll will see it again. Also I did a really crappy job of blocking these…. OOPS.
Diamond Design, swatches of #2, #4, #5, #6
(sorry this pic is so bad… was having trouble with lighting!)
Ok, so I’ve been promising to tell you about following the design process on Knitty that I previously posted about…. I have a whole series of pictures for this one, but first let me tell you how this worked:
Honestly - this was both fun and a pain in the rear… but it taught me some valuable lessons about designing: have patience, constantly edit, & make sure to knit swatches. I also realized that the proportions of graph paper (perfect little squares) are nothing like real stitches… a tall diamond on paper turns into short and squat after being knitted. In the future I’ll keep these things in mind and MAYBE I’ll just end up with three charts… haha… not six!!
To help deal with my own ineptitude… this is a great link on reading charts! You might also find it relevant when I start babbling about creating my own over the next week or so :)
