![]() The ButteryĪn original inhabited fill pattern, inspired by Elizabethan era counted fills, but perhaps a bit more exuberant. These patterns can be used for double running stitch embroidery (aka Holbein Stitch, Spanish Stitch, punto scritto), back stitch, or other linear techniques. Intended to delight both fans of Hitchhikers’ Guide, and pragmatic realists, alike.Ī spooky rendition of the Baba Yaga story cycle, inspired by the work of my storyteller pal, Laura Packer. No apologies here, page past if you are offended.Īt long last, Don’t Panic, written up as a PDF download, multi-page pattern. Presented as stress abatement for those in need of something to stab in a troubling and challenging time. I would love to see the end result, and will post pix of any finished items here on String, with the stitcher’s consent. This one was released on 10 February 2017, via Facebook and Tumblr, without any name attribution or copyright note, to be free for anyone to complete. It was such a perfect motto for a sampler, and the irony of using an art form that requires persistence to accomplish, made perfect sense. I’ve used it for double knitting, but (so far) not stitching. I suspect I doodled it up, inspired by the historical examples. There are lots of examples of this type of interlace in historical works, but none graphed up at exactly this unit count. It’s in my 1980s notebook, next to sourced patterns that made it into The New Carolingian Modelbook, but with no annotations. But I’m a rotten kid, and I never finished out her design. I worked up this motif for a needlepoint bench cover my mom was going to make. She uses it for knitting, but it’s equally useful for stitching. Inspired by a yale (a heraldic splay-horned goat) appearing in various Sibmacher modelbooks of the late 1500s/early 1600s, she’s come up with a unicorn. It’s another The New Carolingian Modelbook excerpt.Īnother original pattern, but one by Elder Daughter Alex rather than me. This one’s original, but it was inspired by patterns appearing in in Niccolo Zoppino d’Aristotle’s Ensamplio di Lavori from 1530. Since then I’ve played with it, abstracting bits and compounding the base concept. I regraphed that pattern and included it in The New Carolingian Modelbook. The basic interlace that started this rumination was published in Giovani Andrea Vavasore’s Ensamplio di Lavori, first printed in Venice in 1532. I’ve used it both in stitching and knitting, although those projects predated on-line documentation. It appeared in The New Carolingian Modelbook. Like the lion above, this hare is from Johan Sibmacher’s Schon Neues Modelbuch of 1597. Once embroidered and once knit, in the Knot a Hat earwarmer band appearing on my knitting patterns page.Īlso from the Da Sera 1546 work referenced above, this pattern is included in The New Carolingian Modelbook, too. This one was charted up from a pattern appearing in Domenico Da Sera’s 1546 Opera Nova… You can find that entire work at Kathryn Goodwyn’s Flowers of the Needle.The astute will notice that I’ve used this pattern here twice. Needless to say, it earned me some unwelcome attention later on, so it’s been retitled with a more generic name.Īnother The New Carolingian Modelbook excerpt. Shortly after the first Harry Potter book became available in the US (and long before the movies), I released it in case folk wanted to knit Gryffindor sweaters as they are described in the book. I included this Sibmacher 1597 pattern in The New Carolingian Modelbook. I explain source and dedication to SCA Clan Oldcastle in this post from February 2010. My redaction of an late 16th/early 17th century graphed pattern, charted from an extant museum artifact. ![]() They work well for counted embroidery including cross stitch and its variants lacis darned net, drawn or pulled thread work withdrawn thread work filet crochet knitting and double knitting tiles and mosaics, marquetry, and other crafts. Plain block unit graphs also appear in the embroidery pattern section. ![]() Block Unit Graphs (Well, mostly block units…) Click here to redirect to giant robots, pirates, spaceships, dinosaurs, bug eyed aliens, flying cars, Weeping angels, and more. If you are looking for the Epic Fandom Stitch-Along, it’s so big that it has its own page containing all 19 sampler bands. You’ll also find more stitching patterns under the “My Books” button above, including the free offering Ensamplario Atlantio: Being a Collection of Filling Patterns Suitable for Blackwork Embroidery. This is where I will put my embroidery patterns formerly resident on wiseNeedle, links to patterns hidden away in String-or-Nothing’s past posts, plus some other freebies from my notebooks.
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