Oh no, not again

the &c. cable: some extremely minimal notes

nice days are almost the worst. when the temperature is perfect and the sky is beautiful and the humidity is mercifully low, then I feel like I should be doing something. but I don't really do things, not anymore.

I used to be a person who did things. now I am a person who used to do things.

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One category I've been exploring is lace, because I always seem to revert to lace. Knitted lace often has lines of decreases, which distort the vertical columns of stitches into emphasized diagonals. Here is a small swatch of a lace diamond pattern, fairly bog-standard except for the cable crosses at the points of the diamonds. The top half of each diamond shape is framed by its decrease lines, while the bottom half grows vertically out of the YO increases.

By using some False Decreases, it's possible to add diagonal framing lines to the lower edges of the diamonds as well. Now they look more symmetrical, and have a nice kind of crispy-edges effect.

Here are charts for both stitch patterns:

Okay, it's an official pattern now.

Writing CSS always seems like a disproportionately large amount of work for a very small and unreliable result. I suppose no one expects people to actually type the stuff in a text editor; we're all supposed to be using AI code generators or something. Sigh.

Be that as it may, there are some instructions for knitting the Traveling Stitch* on my website now. They are very much not optimized for mobile. But the pictures do get bigger if you click on them.