A PLW friend’s birthday is today, so in her honor—because she’s so supportive of my pattern designing attempts—I’m posting some new patterns.
I haven’t given much thought to PL patterns lately. I’d felt so discouraged recently trying to post the patterns I designed earlier this year (but didn’t post while they were fresh in my mind) that I essentially gave up on them.
The squares in this post are a small stack of experimental designs based on a pattern originally devised 25 June 2016. They’re listed in the order they were woven. You might notice the evolution of certain ideas and motifs. A few are interesting, but none of them have proper names.

June 25 2016 sm ntbk 2, front. I don’t think this one is very interesting, but it led to more ideas.
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June 25 2016 sm ntbk 3, front. I like the division of the square into quadrants. I thought it would be interesting to make little diamonds in each, so I included a couple of alternate diagrams (not yet woven by me).

June 25 2016 small notebook 3 — optional (light blue) stitches were not woven in the sample, thus creating little + signs in the centers of the motifs. Warping in sample: L1/2-4 (this shows the plus signs unlike the L1-3/4 sample of June 25 2016 small notebook 2, above.
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June 25 2016 sm ntbk 3b sub 1, front. This one looks familiar to me. It may have been previously discovered and posted on this blog with an actual name.
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June 25 2016 small notebook 2b sub 2 — sample does not show optional light red sts woven. It’s customary to plain weave R 16, however, if you’re joining squares, I think you can have pattern sts in R16. This pattern could be woven on a rigid heddle loom in which case you’d definitely include the R16 sts in the pattern repeat.
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June 25 2016 sm ntbk 2b sub 3, front — This pattern has seeming bent lines that form a sort of large X or *. I’ve included an alternate diagram that straightens the lines and moves the center line of diamonds outward.
I love the squares and plus signs. Getting geared up to try some of these!
Thanks for posting them. Don’t give up!
Thanks for the encouragement Nancy! I hope you enjoy the patterns.