Fukin sampler: one mini-pattern per quadrant - ten-print diagonals, seigaiha wave caps, komezashi crosses, masu squares - with divider dashes on the center lines. 79 stitches, black/teal.
Kogin hem borders: chained small diamonds in three horizontal bands with running-stitch separator rows. 70 stitches.
Hanabishi flower diamonds: five motifs, each a black outer diamond with magenta cross arms and an inner petal diamond. 80 stitches.
Raimon lightning spirals: four rectangular spirals rotated 90 degrees per quadrant, diagonal pairs in black and gold around a center diamond. 60 stitches.
Kuguri-zashi threaded sashiko: a moss foundation of dash rows with magenta zigzag columns weaving through them. 75 stitches.
Boro mending field: five overlapping patches, each with its own running-stitch direction, color alternating indigo/vermilion per patch. 51 stitches.
Hitomezashi maze driven by the Thue-Morse sequence; rows teal, columns vermilion. 110 stitches.
Tatewaku rising steam: five undulating vertical lines with alternating mirror phase, swelling apart and kissing at shared holes. 50 stitches, purple/gold.
Nanbu hishizashi: four radius-2 diamond outlines in teal, each filled with counted horizontal rows in magenta. 52 stitches.
Kogin-zashi modoco: a solid counted diamond of stacked 2-cell horizontal dashes inside a gold outline diamond with four pendant corner diamonds. 57 stitches, indigo/gold.
Kawari kikkozashi tortoiseshell: staggered bands of stitched hexagons clipped at the card edges, color by band parity. 48 stitches.
Sayagata key fret: nine manji pinwheels, rotation direction alternating checkerboard-wise and encoded as the color bit. 42 stitches.
Matsukawabishi pine bark diamond: a radius-4 outer diamond with superimposed vertical and horizontal chains of smaller diamonds. 32 stitches.
Amime fishing net: three diamond-mesh bands with the middle band half-dropped, color by band parity. 48 stitches.
Igeta well curb: five interlocking hash motifs in quincunx layout, the vermilion center threaded first so it owns the shared arms. 32 stitches.
Kakinohanazashi persimmon flower: offset 2x2 blocks of horizontal dashes in checkerboard phases, color by phase. 36 stitches.
Kagome basket weave: a tri-axial mesh of vermilion horizontals and black unit-diagonal chains in both directions. 96 stitches.
Yabane arrow feathers: four vertical fletching bands of chevrons, alternate bands pointing up and down, color by band. 64 stitches.
Shippo seven treasures: interlocking radius-2 diamond rings at 13 staggered centers, color by column parity. 42 stitches.
Asanoha hemp leaf: 16 eight-spoke star bursts on alternating grid points; axis spokes black, diagonal spokes vermilion. 128 stitches.
Seigaiha waves: staggered rows of wide humps with a nested vermilion inner cap. 60 stitches.
Dan-tsunagi linked steps: parallel staircases of alternating horizontal and vertical stitches, color alternating per staircase. 67 stitches.
Uroko fish scales: 8 bands of triangles, odd bands offset half a base, color by band parity. 84 stitches.
Komezashi rice stitch: 2-cell cross arms in black plus diagonal arms in vermilion at alternating interior points. 100 stitches.
Hitomezashi phase maze with row and column phase bits from the word SASHIKO in 5-bit letters; rows black, columns vermilion. 72 stitches.
Masuzashi measuring boxes: four concentric square outlines in unit stitches, color alternating by ring. 80 stitches.
Yamagata mountains: eight chevron bands, each one cell tall as in stitched cloth, color alternating by band. 64 stitches.
Jujizashi cross stitch: two-cell horizontal and vertical arms crossing at every other interior hole, color alternating along the diagonals. 50 stitches.
Diagonal one-stitch field: one diagonal per cell, direction chosen by 64 binary digits of pi, color by direction. 64 stitches.
Hitomezashi maze on the 9 x 9 interior grid: each row and column gets alternating one-cell dashes with phase set by a binary digit of pi; the maze figures are emergent, not drawn. 72 stitches.
Yamagata: eight zigzag mountain chains alternating between opposite sides, short wavelengths black, long vermilion, crossing into hishi diamonds. 48 chords.
Hitomezashi: grid lines and diagonal rulings each kept or skipped by successive binary digits of pi - sparse by design, since the pattern is the presence/absence decision. 19 chords.
Shippo tsunagi: concentric treasure rings from constant-offset chord families at offsets 4, 8, and 12. 72 chords.
Seigaiha: overlapping wave arcs from corner parabola envelopes at three scales; color encodes scale parity. 76 chords.
Asanoha: radial hemp-leaf burst - a vermilion near-diameter envelope forming the tight central star, with black diameter spokes laid on top. 48 chords.
Diamond in square: slate-blue envelope arcs at every vertex with gold vertex fans and corner stitching.
Star in ring: a black {45/11} ring tour tuned so its web clears the five-point star, with vermilion tip fans and the star outline.
Crossed ellipses, horizontal outer and vertical inner: a teal offset envelope with magenta twisted spokes and an inner tour.
Pentagon wreath with inner rose: an indigo {30/7} offset tour with orange corner fans and an inner {20/7} tour.
Circle and lens: a vesica held inside a star ring, a teal {40/13} star tour with magenta lens tip fans and rungs.
Annulus twist: outer circle 44 plus inner circle 22, a teal star polygon {44/13} with magenta twisted spokes and an inner nephroid.
Circle in square: square 32 holes plus circle 28, an indigo twisted cross-curve envelope with an orange cardioid on the inner circle.
Lens and star, homage to a photographed board: square 32 holes plus astroid 24, blue corner envelopes forming the lens with gold notch stitching, tip fans and corner fans.
Twelve anchor fans of 8 chords each to the antipodal arc on 72 holes, colored by anchor parity.
A nephroid k to 3k layered over a cardioid k to 2k on 66 holes.
Complete graph K16 on every third hole of a 48-hole circle, colored by step-distance parity.
The 5x times table on 72 holes, k to 5k mod 72, colored by wrap parity.
Two layered star tours on 56 holes, {56/13} in black under {56/25} in vermilion.
Arc swirl trefoil: three tapered blades with sharp rim tips at 12, 4 and 8 o clock, each strung between a rim arc and an inner arc, indigo at the tip and vermilion toward the center.
Arc swirl trio: three vanes 120 degrees apart wrapping into a near-continuous swirl ring, each fan changing color midway from purple to orange.
Arc swirl duet: two vanes rotated 180 degrees apart, each a ruled swirl strung between an outer and an inner arc rail, tangent to a central envelope circle; crimson and dark teal.
Crescent weave: a true lune opening to the right, two families shifted 5 holes in opposite directions braiding the moon, densest at its waist.
Feathered vortex wreath: three concentric arcs with the gap at 12 o clock, two same-handed spiral bands feathering the annulus into a vortex.
Quatrefoil: four semicircular petal arcs around a central square, each shared corner stitched into a parabola fan, weaving the petals and leaving a crisp square window in the middle.
Vesica leaf: two circular arcs crossing like a leaf, black ribs joining straight across, then a red crossing family laid over them, densest at the waist.
Wave cascade: a W of four line segments, the three interior corners stitched into parabolas alternating valley, peak, valley.
Open band: two concentric 300-degree arcs with the gap at 12 o clock, two counter-spirals shifted 7 holes weaving an annular braid.
Asterisk rosette: three lines crossing at the center make six arms, each sector stitched into a parabola, six parabolas forming a snowflake rosette.
Triangle stitch: three lines forming a triangle, each corner stitched into a parabola, the three parabolas leaving a round window in the middle.
Eye weave: two shallow arcs facing each other, two families shifted 5 holes in opposite directions braiding the lens between them.
Sunburst: a semicircular arc over its own baseline, a blue crossing family sweeping through the center and a red curtain family hanging near-vertical.
Harp weave: two parallel horizontal lines with two families of diagonals shifted 6 holes in opposite directions, crossing into a woven diamond lattice.
Cross aster: two perpendicular lines through the center make four arms, each quadrant stitched into a parabola, four parabolas meeting in a four-pointed star.
Corner parabola: the classic curve stitch on two perpendicular lines, chord k joining Ak to Bk so the chords envelope a parabola tangent to both arms.
Whirl and rim on 72: a {24/11} star threaded on every third hole in violet, with a dodecagon rim on top in orange.
Hex ladder weave on 72: six ladders of 8 parallel chords, blue and pink alternating, the rotated bundles weaving a hexagonal lattice.
Astroid on the odd holes of 72: hole k to (72 - 3k) mod 72, black and red alternating around the rim, the chords enveloping a four-cusp astroid.
Gear-tooth wreath on 72: one closed walk alternating a long step +13 in olive and a short step +8 in violet, returning home after exactly 48 chords with an open center.
Pinwheel whirl on 72: 12 anchors each send four one-sided chords, crimson and dark teal by parity; all chords lean the same way, so the piece spins.
Six petal fans on 72: anchors at every 12th hole fan 8 chords to the arc around their antipode, green and purple alternating per anchor.
Twelve rotating triangles on 72: triangle t joins holes t, t+24, t+48, even t blue and odd t red, rotating through a 60-degree sweep into a two-tone wreath.
Two mystic hexagons on 72: a complete graph on six holes in teal, then the same rose rotated half a step in magenta on top, a Star-of-David weave with 12-fold color symmetry.
Sparse nephroid on 72: the 3x table on odd holes, indigo and orange by wrap parity.
Half-density cardioid on 72 holes: hole k to 2k mod 72 for odd k only, black before the product wraps and vermilion after; the cardioid envelope survives at half density.
Interleaved parity stars on 60: even holes step ahead by 17 in blue, odd holes by 23 in red, two half-density stars of different pitch braided into a crown.
Trefoil giant fans on 60: three anchors each fan 16 chords to the opposite arc, dark teal inside and vermilion outside, three overlapping fans drawing a large layered triangle.
Double star whirl on 40: star polygon {40/19} in olive underneath forming the tight inner whirl, {40/11} in violet on top as the spiky outer ring.
Eighteen interlocking triangles on 54: triangle t joins holes t, t+18, t+36, blue and pink by parity, a slowly rotating triangle filling a broad two-tone wreath.
Double mystic rose on 16: two interleaved complete graphs, evens in violet and odds in orange, two K8 roses rotated half a step against each other.
Fibonacci braided star on 55: a single closed tour stepping +21 mod 55, a golden-angle approximation, chords alternating black and red into a dense whirl rosette with a crisp circular void.
Pinwheel whirl on 64: 16 anchors each send three one-sided chords, green and purple by anchor parity; all chords lean the same way, so the piece spins rather than mirrors.
Cogwheel zigzag on 60: one closed walk alternating a long step +23 in crimson and a short step +11 in blue, a gear-toothed wreath with an open center.
Hex weave on 60: six ladders of 8 parallel chords, teal and magenta alternating, the six rotated bundles weaving a hexagon-and-triangle lattice.
Astroid envelope on 60: every hole k except three sends one chord to (60 - 3k) mod 60, even k indigo and odd k orange, the chords enveloping a four-cusp astroid inside a woven globe.
Six petal fans on 48 holes: anchors at holes 0, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40 each fan to the 8 holes around their antipode, petals alternating black and vermilion by anchor parity.
Tumbling blocks: an isometric cube field split by rhombus orientation class, one orientation per pen.
Chladni contours: nodal-line contours of two plate modes, mode (3,5) in indigo and mode (2,7) in orange.
Whirl grid: 4 x 4 rotating-square cells with a checkerboard color split and opposite rotation directions, plotted as one pen pass per color.
Pursuit-curve squares (the mice problem) in a 6 x 6 grid, colored by rotation direction.
Metaballs with scanline hatching inside a marching-squares outline.
Topographic contour map of layered Perlin terrain via marching squares, 12 levels banded in four colors.
Molnar-style grid of jittered nested squares, disorder growing downward.
Greedy circle packing with stroked circles colored by size class.
Maurer rose with n=6, d=71: a straight-line walk over the smooth rose curve.
Lorenz attractor x-z projection: one continuous 40000-step line in three color runs.
Bracketed L-system plant grown for 5 iterations, colored by branch depth.
Recursive-backtracker maze of 30 x 30 cells, walls in black with the BFS solution path in red.
Voronoi cell edges over 110 relaxed seeds, with the seed points dotted in red.
Interference: 70 horizontal lines displaced by two radial wave sources with distance decay.
Dragon curve: 13 paper foldings, 8192 segments in one polyline, first half teal and second half red.
Ridge lines: 44 joy-division ridges from enveloped Perlin terrain with true hidden-line removal.
Superformula stack: 40 outlines morphing between two superformula parameter sets, radius 34 to 420 px.
Spirograph: three nested epitrochoids at different scales, each closed exactly.
Harmonograph: two damped 4-pendulum traces overlaid in blue and red, near-rational frequency ratios giving the drifting lobes.
Hitomezashi: a 44 x 44 stitch grid from random row and column bits, horizontal dashes blue, vertical orange.
Hilbert curve: order-64 space-filling curve of 4096 points in one continuous route, split into 8 color runs.
Noise rings: 59 concentric closed rings radially displaced by Perlin noise, wobble growing with radius, every third ring red.
Flow field: 240 streamlines traced through a Perlin angle field, colored by starting quadrant, 1 px lines.
Hexagonal tessellation: a hex lattice whose polygon size and hue fall off with distance from the center.
Perlin flow field streamlines: 200 walkers step along perlin2 angles, hue driven by the field.
In the book, 101 Things To Learn in Art School, Kit Long wrote that "The medium is the artwork's first identity. It is secondarily about what it depicts. Form shapes content."