I worked a bunch on Hemlock this weekend and I realized I was going to finish it pretty soon, and I haven't picked out the next sweater I want to start (I want three going at all times).  I'm excited about using the chartreuse linen yarn I bought, so I went to Ravelry.

The color is pretty bold, so I couldn't find anything in my queue that looked like it would be right.  I got it into my head that I wanted to do something with lots of holes ... sort of digital looking ... pixel lace.  After failing to find what I wanted in the Ravelry pattern search, I tried a yarn search to see what people were making with Knit Picks' Cotlin.

That's when I saw elisadallomo's cha-cha-ccepted / Framboise (account needed to view link) in chartreuse.  Perfect!  Erm, well, sort of.  It's two squares sewn together.  I tried to convince myself that it would look good on me, but I couldn't.  But now I'd seen something that I really liked, so I knew it was possible.

Next up, the internets.  To keep up on fashion trends, I occasionally visit the websites for Anthropologie and Mod Cloth.  I also look at Urban Outfitters, though I've been loathing their clothes lately.  It's good to know what the kids are wearing, though, to be in the loop, sort of. ;)  During this virtual stroll through the mall I hit the jackpot.

I totally love Anthropologie's Stitched Medley Sweater.  Holes and more holes.  And woven trellis cables.  I was surprised that I liked the mint sweater with those blue jeans, but I do.

I'm pretty sure the small hole pattern is a basic honeycomb stitch.  But the big fancy one, boy howdy, I have nothing like that in any of my stitch books.  Nor in any of the magazines or pamphlets I have.  And I looked through a bazillion and half knit patterns on Ravelry looking for something like that.  I was prepared to buy any pattern that would teach me that stitch pattern.  Nada.

It looks like a woven trellis cable/travelling stitches with dropped knit stitches in the middle that are then all knit into at once.  Beautiful, structural, and complicated.  Swatch time!

The first bit is a small honeycomb.  I think I need a medium one for the front of the sweater.  This was close enough to validate my thought, though.  Then I tried just winging a woven trellis with holes in the middle.  Close-ish, but not very structural.  Next I did a double yarn over mesh.  Big holes!

Here are the big holes with more stockinette between them.

Playing around with cables.

Oh, my!  I tried forever to do a swatch of lacy diamonds and I just wasn't getting it.  I knit and frogged this section 3 or 4 times before I just purled a row and ...

... finally figured out where I was going wrong.  Yay!  I stuck some random, centered purls in the diamonds to see if they looked nice.  I was considering using this instead of the fancy woven trellis.  Maybe.

Later, I found  Urban Outfitter's Pins and Needles Open Stitch Sweater.  Woohoo!  It looks like brightly-colored, multi-mesh panel sweaters are a thing.

I couldn't find any patterns like this on Ravelry, so I'll be Frankenstein-ing this together once I find the stitches I want to use.  Oh!  If you have any source for learning the stitch up there, please let me know.  I found some fantastic Barbara Walker stitches in her 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Stitch Treasuries, but not that exact stitch.  In related news, I now need to psyche myself up to spend $90 on stitch treasuries.