My favourite beach pattern, so I hope I’ve done it justice in the square! Dawlish Warren is brilliant with such a variety in these patterns, sometimes seaweed and water accentuate the patterns. I could wander the beach for hours just looking down at my feet.
It took a while to get the right ratio of alternating stocking stitch, and a suitable waviness in the pattern. I settled in the end for something that had consistency with the original footprints square, 2 horizontal repeats and 3 rows per wave.
(I changed the pattern once I'd made the sea waves pattern, in order to line up the sea and sand waves.)
I made the patterns in a spreadsheet before knitting up a test swatch. The bottom left photo in the collage above shows the trial patterns I went through before deciding which I liked.
General principles for square patterns:
Repeat pattern horizontally and vertically & simple to knit pattern.
36 stitches x 48 rows (ish, this one is 49!) for main pattern as these are very divisible numbers.
An 'x' means purl on a knit row, and knit on a purl row to create the texture.
This lower chart is the format I found to be most useful to me:
White = knit row (right side), grey = purl row (wrong side).
An 'x' = purl on a knit row, and knit on a purl row
The numbers are just a handy guide to the number of stitches in each knit or purl block.
This square, in particular, benefits from blocking to stop it scrunching up so much.
Written pattern:
See blanket pattern for required needles & yarn.
(k = knit, p=purl)
Cast on 36 stitches
Row 1: knit
Row 2: k4, p10, k8, p10, k4
Row 3: p6, k6, p12, k6, p6
Row 4: knit
Row 5: k3, p12, k6, p12, k3
Row 6: p5, k8, p10, k8, p5
Repeat rows 1-6 7 times more, then knit row 1 once more
Cast off
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