#Basketweave Pattern

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Burgundy ~

[rarepairnation]

finished the ribbing on this vest THANK GOD. 1x1 rib my enemy. you can’t see yet how pretty the multicoloured yarn that i’m doing the body in is but it slams.

[turbocao]

I'm ready to take up knitting again but I need to choose a pattern based on the yarn I have (from my last two (failed) projects) and it's proving to be harder than I thought because I happen to want to like and wear the final product haha

[lachoco]

Vibrant Colors Basketweave Pattern Pillar Candle

[garciamiah]

Montreal Transitional Entry Vestibule: A medium-sized transitional porcelain tile vestibule with a beige floor and beige walls.

[tllgrrl]

Finally. After 20 years of being squirreled away in a bag, waiting for me to finish it. It’s DONE.

I fell in love with this shawl/capelet/thing at a trunk show that this yarn company was having at the LYS (Local Yarn Shop). It was knit up in a color I didn’t care for, but the patterning and construction intrigued me, so I got the yarn and the pattern, and started.

For some reason, I put it aside. Then Life happened and the bag it was in got placed into one of those big plastic bins, along with my stash. And that was put into the garage/storage at the new digs. Where it sat for at least 4 presidential administrations.

I brought it upstairs into my room where it sat for another 3 years.

Then, this past summer, I got it out, reread the pattern, got back into the groove, finished the mitered square black and grey trim, did the finishing, blocked it and now it’s done.

It’s almost cool enough to wear this in the morning when I leave the house at 5:30 in the gahtdamn morning, I open the front door to leave the house, immediately shut the door and say “Oh, HELL no!” and reach up to the top shelf to grab my new piece to throw on because it’s not yet cold enough for a coat or heavy jacket.

Picture a wide V shape. On the right side is a wide basketweave pattern. On the other side is a smaller basketweave pattern. That’s the thing that caught my fancy. And the trim.

The sample I saw was dark red and a brown. “Autumn” colors. Not attractive to me at all. I chose black, which looks dark charcoal here, but trust me: it’s black. And added grey for the trim. And did one corner in a red stripe instead of grey.

Why? Because.

One day soon, I’ll spread it out and take a photo of the whole piece and throw it in here, but for now…here ‘tis:

Mitred Trim Capelet #JSS04 (designer: Jane Slicer-Smith at sigknit.com)

[fror-da-leituga]

Da última vez que teci fiz uma amostra de um "montanhac" alentejano; desta vez estou a tecer um padrão tradicional vinhaense. Encontrei-o no livro "Tipologias de Tecelagem de Vinhais", que está disponível para download digital gratuito no site da Saber Fazer.

Last time I wove I made a swatch of an alentejano "montanhac"; this time I'm weaving a traditional vinhaense pattern. I found it in "Tipologias de Tecelagem de Vinhais", which is available for free digital download on the Saber Fazer website.

Nas imagens abaixo podem ver o padrão "Blocos" no que antes era uma manta mas agora é um fato de careto.

In the pictures below you can see the "Blocos" pattern on what used to be a blanket but is now a careto costume.

O tecido de base é suposto ser um tafetá, mas como eu tenho um tear de tapeçaria que tem entalhes fixos decidi tentar tecer um "meio encanastrado", isto é, um tecido que segue a lógica do tafetá mas em que há duas tramas para cada fio da teia. A segunda cor, que é a que cria o padrão, é um fio com mais ou menos o dobro do diâmetro do fio de base, o que dispensa a dupla passagem que o outro fio necessita por causa da sua finura.

The base fabric is supposed to be plain weave, but since I have a tapestry loom which has fixed notches I've decided to try weaving a "half basketweave", that is, a fabric that follows the same logic as plain weave but in which there are two wefts for every warp thread. For the contrast colour, which actually creates the pattern, I'm using a yarn with about double the diametre of the base yarn, which spares me doing the double pass the base yarn requires due to its fineness.

Iniciei a amostra com nós festonê (rosa salmão acima da secção branca), que desta vez fiz com uma linha de croch�� para ficarem menos visíveis e criarem menos volume.

I began the swatch with double half-hitch knots (salmon pink above the white section), which I did with crochet thread this time so that they would be less conspicuous and so the edges are less bulky.

[bygonethreadsstudio]

A 1919 knitting pattern for a very cozy looking sweater with a matching beanie hat!

It’s knitted in a variation of a basketweave pattern using two colors of yarn. I’m sure it would also look great in just one color, letting the texture be the main focus

[miss-tea-eyed]

i am adding a band of this basketweave pattern to the chest of the sweater im working on rn. the texture is pleasing.

[thebeanhouse]

A friend got me hooked on a basketweave pattern last year and I finally found the perfect fabric! It's the Pride & Prejudice collection from Riley Blake's Jane Austen at Home line.

After all, it is a truth universally acknowledeged that a quilter in possession of a good pattern must be in want of fabric.

[improbable-implosions]

This one's kinda funny, I went into affixing that patch SO sure that the design of that sword of mine, Arma, would be plenty for that patch, but the longer I stared at it doing other mends for these pants, the longer I felt it needed _something_ else, you know?

First up, we've got to stitch on the patch itself! I did some nice even straight stitches, because initially, I was planning on a little area of sashiko mending.

But, in looking at the size of the chunk of dissolvable backing I had cut, there wasn't really any patterns immediately springing to mind that'd work at a scale that small, or, so I thought after seeing how that basketweave pattern came together on an earlier piece. For context, the whole patch is roughly the size of the palm of my hand, at 3.5 inches square.

So, instead, I decided to try something a bit more complex to render than I'd really tried out before, this art of Arma! (Despite the sword's design being my work, the art in question is by @razzmatazic, who I did ask if I tried to trace, and she had no problems!) And so trace I did, tracing the outlines of the major features of the piece, namely, the outer lines, and the shapes of the gemstones.

Unfortunately, in my haste (and, admittedly, my focus, since this was much higher detail than I normally tackle around here), I didn't grab any in-progress shots of this. Still, I actually really enjoy how this came out looking, even if it doesn't perfectly evoke the design or detail of the original piece, it certainly emulates the look of Arma well enough I recognize it, and very visibly reads Cool Sword, y'know?

Next up were a few colorful rims around the edges of the front pockets! They were fraying pretty significantly, so not only does this add a fun splash of color, but it keeps me from picking the edges of these seams apart while I'm not thinking about my hands. Initially, I was going to pick a different set of colors than that turquoise and purple, based on a fun fact about my hometown, but that color scheme was just calling out to me! I decided to lean into the somewhat royal vibes and went for a different, lighter purple, with two little bits of yellow thread, which, fun fact, I actually dyed with some yellow flowers I foraged back in the boston area!

As for these two little spot-mends, they were really more an exercise in frustration. Really, I'm mostly miffed the thread broke on the original patch in the one place the hole kept trying to expand through, but hopefully that little bit of randa stitching (which looks MUCH more like randa stitching should than my previous efforts, namely on my wallet and that previous pair of pants that we detailed, the ones with the segaihana sashiko) alongside some additional reinforcement along the edge of that original yellow patch, made from some thread I scavenged from a fraying bit of denim, should keep this particular pair of shorts from getting any more fixes right on the edge of the patch that has misbehaved TWICE now!

Last but not least, while I was wrangling those pocket rims and the spot mends, I really just had the feeling that Arma would look kinda... lonely, I suppose? Centered in the framing straight stitches like that, so I improvised a little open book next to her! (She's not a sword-girl, promise, it's she/her like you'd she/her a boat) There's actually some really nice dimensionality to the book, too, with some looser stitches to emulate ruffle-able pages, and those two knots along the spine make for a pleasant, crinkled texture to the cover lines! Can you tell I'm pleased with myself for getting that just so, without any guides?

All that said, hopefully that's all the mends my poor poor jean shorts need, I swear, just as I get one set fixed, the other winds up with another hole! Don't get me wrong, I'm starting to enjoy the whole almost boro-like vibe they're developing, with all these overlapping mends, but I'd like them to develop it slower, thanks! (And yes, I do plan to wear these at LEAST until they look like I've quilted them back together, they're comfy!)

[zattemptspatterns]

Uncovered my few discarded WIPs/UFOs. A lot less than I anticipated (but then again there are smaller projects that I haven't sorted out, though those are most likely to be UFOs too)

The active WIPs

1. The Pretty in Pink sweater that only needs to be seamed up, collar added, and last zipper.

2. Stash-busting Shawl (just using up scrap yarn)

3. Basketweave Cardi (might just make it a vest, I'll see how much yarn the button band uses up)

The UFOs (will rewind the yarn)

I had this one pretty pastel moss tee (the one in a lump top right) that I was 80% finished with but realised I hated it ✌️

The yarn from bottom left was a gift from a friend and I got anxious about using it up but was a bit uninspired. I do love the colours tho. There were also some yarn that got in these stash that I was toying with but just absolutely abhor the colour combo🤮

This is just a swatch I made for the Billy sweater that still hasn't moved an inch of progress in regards to the pattern 🤐 (such a perfect emoji for Billy)

[queerlyloud]

I'm so glad I learned crochet first because it forces you to learn how building fabric works from literally only one stitch, so when I started knitting and all the stitches were live, I was like

And circular needles! Who needs the magic ring??? (Trick question, the answer is everyone, but not for knitting!) Who needs to live in terror every time they have to close a round??? Not me because my needles are already a circle!!!

And the structures make so much sense! I've never learned to knit before this week, but today I couldn't find a free mushroom beanie pattern so I looked at 6 or 7 patterns to see how they work and now im making a really kickass beanie because I can just make the pattern myself (I have something in mind that I think is gonna be pretty neat, so if it turns out, I will share it so people other than me can see it but I'm attempting a combination of basketweave and a colorwork mushroom worked into the fabric in stockinette with the basket weave going all around it, we'll see how this turns out).

Tldr: fiber crafts are awesome and knitting is really fun and way easier after learning crochet. I wonder if any knitters can say whether learning crochet after knitting is also easier?

[lachoco]

Colorful Basketweave Pattern Pillar Candle

[tootiredforaname]

[ID: Two knitted pillows, one striped like the aromantic pride flag and the other the asexual one, done in an entrelac pattern, which has a basketweave effect. /end ID]

I just finished this commission! Two entrelac knitted pillows, one in the aro pride flag, and one in the ace pride flag. I sell these for $75 each, plus shipping. I don't currently have any in my inventory, but the price is the same to have one custom made!

[inkofamethyst]

June 4, 2025

Apologies for being a little one-track-minded but I have too many thoughts and have historically found that writing them out helps linearize things. Teaching myself and doing it well is going slowly. And I knew it would and I am slogging through the challenges as they present themselves but like spending four or five days on a single exercise truly does feel like a slog sometimes. The StudyBass Guy says that as a beginner, I should focus on just getting the exercise to be 'good enough' and then moving on. What even is good enough? Am I going too far? Not far enough? Nothing is frustrating, exactly, except maybe for the fact that I'm not a prodigy.

Hhhhhh. Ultimately I must remind myself that part of the reason behind this whole experience is to struggle through learning something new but with very low stakes. I'm not graded, I'm not relying on this for an income. I am proving to myself that I can be disciplined and tenacious. I am learning for the sake of learning and struggling for the sake of new neural connections or something like that. I am learning to make art. Maybe I'm more exhausted from the day than exasperated with the instrument (which is as gorgeous and lovely and beautiful as the first day I bought it (also she needs a name lowk.. something corny, of course)). Maybe I'm gunning too hard for my skill level (I don't think this is the case though; as a veritable multi-instrumentalist I think it's reasonable to have slightly loftier expectations for myself from a musical perspective than I might expect from a fifth grader learning their second instrument (yes I count recorder as their first)).

Oh, to have a two-bedroom apartment where the extra room serves as a project room for all my pursuits.

I tried doing some patterning today, and patterning sucks without a large, tall (or even medium-height) patterning table. I might have to just do it at the makerspace, drafting and cutting and sewing all in one day. Honestly it's even worse than cutting on the ground. Or maybe I'm just tired. I've had a very busy last two weeks preparing data for this presentation deadline (I have to finish it by tomorrow afternoon!) that I'm not all that excited about doing in the first place. The data is kind of interesting but I genuinely don't want to do the presentation. I'm not sure why. Maybe I'm actually anxious about it. Hm.

In the same vein of like, linearizing thoughts. I have three additional connected ones.

First, really intrigued by the concept of a "zero hour" or something that you do immediately after waking up which is not getting on the phone. I imagine that my zero hour activity could be something like knitting (though I promise I must remain disciplined and cannot start the next project until I at least draft the cosplay pattern, cut the pieces for the next draft, and book the next makerspace appointment) or reading or maybe stretching.

This brings me to the second thought: I had as one of my summer goals that I wanted to incorporate more physical activity into my life routinely. Stretching or strength or aerobic or two of them or all three. I think that I will need to find a video series that I really like, and link it in a place that's low-effort to boot up, like my Spacedock.

And third, more connected to the first thought than to the second, I do think that one of the ways to fight the addictive parts of media consumption (doomscrolling and the like) is creation. And I think that it has to begin with low activation energy creation for many, like a coloring book or something that doesn't really require learning a new skill and that can be picked up on a whim during the day when the itch to consume strikes. For me, that was stockinette in the round, or the rows and rows of basketweave or linen/moss stitch last year. Physical manipulation, fine motor skills, the occasional problem solving. I've found that I'm less likely to reach for my phone when I have a project in the works, largely because I want the product!

Today I'm thankful that my "experiments" are going much better than last summer.