Okay, so I am knitting my toddler son some longies (wool pants, for those of you not in-the-know) and I want to spruce up the bum with some punk-ish duplicate stitch.
Any thoughts? Any patterns?
I actually don’t know where to find duplicate stitch patterns online anyway, since I have been told that crosstitch won’t work.
You’ll have to enlighten me…what do you mean by punkish? :shrug:
I was leaving “punk-ish” open to interpretation!
Not a cute little animal or a sweet sailboat. Something boy but not standard run-of-the-mill “here’s a truck for your son”.
My creativity bled out after white skull and crossbones on black pants. But I’m sure there are many more options! Plus, I don’t have a pattern for the skull&bones (except domiknitrix posted a large skull-only pattern for a sweater that I might be able to shrink and adjust).
What else…hmmm…perhaps a heart tattoo with Mommy in it? Or anything a little less mainstream. No sweet little ducks. But it could be skater, surfer, rock…
Also looking for recs on where to find duplicate stitch patterns. Online or offline.
I vote for the Mommy tattoo idea! It’s sweet, but not cutesy. Go for it! :cheering:
The only thing I can come up right now with is “danger toxic waste” or maybe a hazardous material symbol. The Mommy tattoo is better.
If youi find a picture or graphic you like, you can make your own chart using this program
http://www.microrevolt.org/knitPro/
With cross-stitch patterns, the stitches are meant to be “square” whereas in knitting the stitches are a bit taller than wide, or a bit more rectangular, so if you used a cross-stitch pattern as-is, on knitting it would look a bit squashed or shortened.
There are also some star wars symbols you can do, like the rebel alliance symbol or the Empire symbol, if you’re into that kinda thing?
here are some charts.
How bout the good ole anarachy symbol? (a big letter A in a circle)?
like this
:happydance: 
I like that, will look cute across his little butt.
hmmm…well, I love the Knitpro application, for when I find a graphic I like. Also, I found a pattern for flames up the arms of a man’s sweater in the S&B Nation today, and I thought I could easily put those up his legs instead.
I am also digging on the Star Wars. Choices, choices, choices. He may just have a whoe alterno-wardrobe this winter!
http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring05/PATThottamale.html
Here is another flame chart. The yellow highlights are duplicate stitch. Wouldn’t flames be so cute around the bottom of the legs of the longies?
oooh! I think those might be even better flames!!
Do y’all think it would be overkill to have flames up the legs AND a Mommy tattoo on the hiney? Those may just be two different pairs of longies.
Also, I was rethinking what I meant by punkish, and maybe rockabilly or macho would be better terms? You have been pretty much on the ball, though. I was also thinking pirates, maybe.
Hmmmm…
I am so in love with Kintpro!
http://www.crankypantshome.com/longies.shtml
Has some cute ideas.