Recently something took me and I thought that you can use those two-coloured charts which are usually associated with filet crochet or cross stitch for a loooot of other techniques, too.
I had this idea already before, in my entries about intarsia knitting, the cross stitch heart, the beaded square stitch heart and the polymer clay letter cane.
On the photo you see some letters worked in different techniques (I’m working on letter charts at the moment ;-)):
'u' -
Knit-Purl Knitting, each X is a purl stitch
'n' -
Fair Isle Knitting, each X is a white stitch
'i' -
Sequins Embroidery, each X is a sequin
'k' -
Tapestry Crochet, each X is a white stitch
'a' -
Filet Crochet, each X is a filled filet crochet square
't' -
Cross Stitch Embroidery on paper, each X is a black cross stitch
'i' -
Loom Beading, each X is a black bead
's' -
Stamping with square stamps, each X is a black square stamp
's' -
Illusion Knitting, each X is a black stitch over two rows
'i' -
Crochet Yoyo’s, each X is a white crochet circle from dc’s
'm' -
Inverted Filet Crochet, each X is a empty filet crochet square
'a' -
Macramée/Friendship Bracelet, each X is a white knot
But then I came up with more techniques and if you still have more ideas I’d be glad if you wrote a comment about.
I added for every technique what would be a square of the chart.
Please remember: Not all ‘units’ are square so that the result can look quite different from the chart!
Knitting
- Fair Isle Knitting – 1 stitch
- Knit-Purl Knitting – 1 stitch
- Double Knitting – 1 stitch (I mean here this Double Knitting)
- Patchwork Knitting – 1 patchwork square (it gets a little larger ;-))
- Bead Knitting – 1 beaded stitch
- Illusion Knitting – 1 stitch over 2 rows
- Knitted Lace from Charts – 2 stitches over 2 rows (added on April 11, 2010)
Crochet
- Tapestry Crochet – 1 stitch
- Filet Crochet – 1 filet square (cross = filled square)
- Inverted Filet Crochet – 1 filet square (cross = empty square)
- Crochet Yoyo’s – 1 Crochet Yoyo, viz. a crochet circle from dc’s
Beading
- Loom Beading – 1 bead
- Beaded Square Stitch – 1 bead
- Bead Knitting – 1 beaded stitch
- Bead Embroidery – 1 bead
Embroidery
- Cross Stitch Embroidery – 1 cross stitch
- Sequins Embroidery – 1 sequin (just as at those sequins (scroll down to about the middle))
- French Knot Embroidery – 1 stitch
- Bead Embroidery – 1 bead
Knotting
- Macramée/Friendship Bracelet – 1 knot
- Crazy Daisies – 1 Crazy Daisy
Weaving
- Tablet Weaving/Card Weaving – eh, hard to tell ;-)
Sewing
- Patchwork/Quilting – e.g. 1 patchwork square
- Yoyo’s – 1 Yoyo
- Fabric Origami – 1 fabric origami square
Other
- Glass Paint – e.g. 1 cut square
- Polymer Clay Cane – 1 square cane
- Ministeck ;-) – 1 square ministeck piece (that’s how they look)
- Mosaic – 1 square mosaic piece
- Collage – 1 square paper snippet
- Stamping – 1 self-cut square stamp
By the way I found an blog entry of an embroiderer who thought about the same subject and has more ideas.
Links:
Double Knitting
Picture for sequin embroidery (scroll down to about the middle)
Description of French Knot
Heather’s Friendship Bracelets – Alphabet Patterns
Geometric stitching
Google image search result for ‘yoyo blanket’
Google image search result for ‘ministeck’
Here at unikatissima:
Celtic Cross Stitch Generator
Heart Template (at Beaded Square Stitch Heart)
Patchwork Knitting
Bead Knitting
Illusion knit
Tapestry Crochet
Beautiful Filet Crochet Patterns
Loom Woven Bead Bracelet
Beaded Square Stitch Heart
Bead Knitting
Freeform Bead Embroidery
Bead embroidered Paisleys
Friendship Bracelet
Crazy Daisies
Crazy Daisies II
Mosaic Table Light (Glass Paint)
Polymer Clay Letter Cane
Mosaic from Plaster
Eraser Stamps
What about the X in mosaic crochet
Donna, I am sorry, I do not understand your question.