As in all flat knitting the chart is followed right to left on the ‘right’ (positive) side, and left to right on the ‘wrong’ (negative) side. It’s a two color project featuring contrasting squares and heart motifs using the double knitting technique. The cable symbol shows you how the cable stitches are to be worked (whether the first group should be held in front or in back and whether the stitches should be knitted or purled), and the stitch symbols above the cable symbol show how the stitches should be worked in their new configuration.The incredible amount of information contained within a cable symbol allows you to work from the chart without constantly referring to the key. Once you understand the information contained in a cable symbol, you’ll easily distinguish between similar symbols and you won’t need to refer to the key.So far, all the cables we have examined have been stockinette-based and all the cable symbols have been solid white to represent knit stitches. Thanks for sharing so much good stuff.For practice try doing a simple double-knit tube (bookmark?). The first stitch at the bottom right of our knitted piece is in the same location as the bottom right of our knitting chart, so you will knit it from right to left. Reverse Stockinette is the purl side of Stockinette stitch fabric, where the knit side is viewed as the right side.. I am finally starting to see how awesome this tool is, now that I understand the software better. The diagonal lines of the stitches that cross behind the other group will only be visible where the stitches don’t overlap. Easily understand all of the essential information to begin reading and knitting from a basic chart.
After knitting the first few stitches of Color 2, you can tie its loose end to the lead line of Color 1. Solved! How are charted cable symbols different from other chart symbols? You work it just as you would the knitting project. This is tricky at the best of times, and when you are working with a pattern whose number of stitches changes from row to row, it can become a nightmare. It creates a dense bit at the top, but you get the nice line of stitches terminating in a hole.Better yet, if anyone knows of a lace book with detailed instructions on how to do these things, let me know. Instructions will specify how you should read it.
the chart, following each knit stitch with a purl stitch in the colour shown on the chart. These cables have all stayed within a vertical column of stockinette stitch. The hardest thing to wrap your mind around is that you see five stitches on the chart, but you’ll really be knitting/purling ten. Technically, you are swapping the locations of the increases/decreases–but unless you want to think deeply about it, let’s just say that these patterns do flip easily and reasonably intuitively, though you may have to fiddle with the direction of the decreases.Yesterday I spent four hours in a knitting store painstakingly paring down a pattern in Barbara Walker’s Third Knitting Treasury. There are special rulers on the market with magnified section that makes reading the chart even better.When working from a chart, follow appropriate markings for the piece you are making and the size. )This makes it really easy to see where the half-drop occurs, and which stitches are part of which pattern. Row 2 of the 10-stitch cable has two knit stitches and two left-leaning 4-stitch cable crossings. Row 8 of the chart has two 4-stitch knit cables, but if we look at the stitches directly below the cables, we can see that two purl stitches have become two knit stitches after the cable crossing. Then you muck around with the stitches in between until you get an effect you like.Stitches like K5tog are very hard to reproduce; I’ve just been replacing them with M5s. It begins at the lower right-hand corner and you work across the row from right to left, just as you do when knitting it. It was a seven-rayed leaf or feather pattern (I’ve forgotten the name) that looked like it might be interesting for the peacock “scale feather” pattern, but at 29 stitches across (15 per feather) it was going to come out too large, so I scaled it down to a five-rayed feather pattern.So how to create a hole at the *top* of a line of stitches? If the project you are working is knit flat, the second row will be worked reading the second row from the bottom of the chart from left to right.