Print o' the Wave Pattern page 71

Print o' the Wave Pattern page 71
Originally uploaded by fuzzyjay

Print o' the Wave Pattern from Heirloom Knitting by Sharon Miller, page 71.

Alice Maud Pattern page 151

Alice Maud Pattern page 151 Originally uploaded by fuzzyjay

"This large pattern is from one of the very first knitting pattern manuals of the 1840s" says Sharon Miller in Heirloom Knitting. It's not as symmetrical as it could be. The upper arms of the Xs are smaller than the lower ones.

Pseudo knitting

Running the diagram through some filters, it looks surprisingly like a knitted fabric. Hollywood, are you watching? So far, you haven't been doing too well with knits in animation.

Bird's Eye Pattern

 

From page 132 of Sharon Miller's Heirloom Knitting. This schematic diagram doesn't look very much like the knitted fabric, but it's easier to see the structure of the decreases and increases.

Rose 'Melody Parfumée'

Rose 'Melody Parfumée', originally uploaded by fuzzyjay.

I'm just a little sick of winter. Here's some June (Pacific Northwest style).