Design Elements

Stitch Length

Crochet

• Single Crochet
• Double Crochet
• Treble Crochet

Knit

• Skip 1, 2, 3 spaces

Right Side / Wrong Side

Knit 

• Stockinette Stitch
• Working in the Round

Crochet

• Ball Front/Ball Back
• Working in the Round

Ruffle Shaping

• Stitch length
• Corkscrew pleats (bullion stitch)
• Accordion pleats
• Knife pleats
• Box and inverted pleats
• Rib Stitch (knitting)
• Ruffle width (work varying numbers of threads to make the ruffle narrower and wider)
• Scallop patterns (shell in-the-yarn)
• Ruching

 

Edge Embellishment

• Crocheted edgings
• Tatted edgings

 

Color

• Manipulate yarn color variegations and stitch lengths to create ikat-like designs

Ruffle Yarn Lace

Hairpin Lace

• Using the yarn as an insertion
• Creating a fancy band
• Creating a mesh fabric
• Using mesh yarn fabric as an overlay

Net Lace

• Darning open mesh spaces
• Weaving open mesh spaces
• Punto in aria fill stitches