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Next Year's Garden
Hiya! This is a wrap I’ve been thinking about for a while, much like I also think about my plans for next year’s flowers and veg, headed into winter.
It was inspired by pages 268-9 of A Treasury of Knitting Patterns (the original 1968 version). Everything fancy involved can be found on those two pages, and then there is a width of striping for added structure.
We impose ourselves and our grid on the wilderness, after all.
I wrote a chart with everything in it so knitters could see it all at once, and I will also include each stitch as written so you can refer to the specific kinds of cables used, especially in Banana Tree (there are like.. six.. very similar ones and you work the cables on both sides of the piece so it is important to check, as stitch fiddle’s cable symbols are limited and my plan for myself was to check both the chart and the written pattern until I was established and had it down pat).
Once you’ve done a few repeats you shouldn’t need to refer to the chart anymore. This honestly is my favorite part of knitting anything, or coming up with patterns; the being able to “read” it once it gets going.
That’s my design ethos right there, for gardens and for knitting and for life. Good designs that make sense when you get into the flow.
(This pdf includes the charts for the Banana Tree stitch, which I could not find on the internet anywhere.)
As an errata note - I guess I assumed that when reading the chart you know that the repeats of the two floral patterns are repeats of the design as it “makes sense”, not from the bottom of the chart. I would be happy to extend it higher if needed to make that clear. (I might just do that but for now I think it’s fine)
- First published: October 2025
- Page created: October 3, 2025
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