Since the full chart from the previous post is, shall we say, a bit unwieldy to work from, I stripped it down to its bare essentials before I cast on the back at the tops of the shoulders. This chart preserves all the key information while fitting on a single piece of paper with the stitch symbols at 12 points, which is important for my aging eyeballs.
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Sweater Adventure #3: Determining the Color Changes
Once I knew my stitch and row counts, I could assign different bands of the vest to different colorway combinations, which would allow me to figure out how often I needed to change colorways so that I could use up as much of the yarn as possible.
Sweater Adventure #3: Final Stitch and Row Counts
While the previous post listing stitch and row counts is a good first pass, the final counts need to allow for the fact that I’m trying to keep all the Mistake-Stitch Ribbing
- mirror-image where the edgings are vertical
- aligned and continuous when a vertical edging joins a horizontal edging
The second bullet point refers to where
The Knitting Charts Book Is DONE!!!
I’m glad to say that I’ve finally finished the charting book. It’s been a long haul, and I can only hope that you will learn a small fraction of what I learned in writing the book.
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Designing: Avoiding Yarn Chicken in Sweater 2
Just as I did with the first sweater in this series, I’m going to make a multi-column table in my word processor and use my knitting font to show every stitch, including the cast-on and bound-off stitches, of the sweater.
Working: Avoiding Yarn Chicken, Part 2
I updated my garment chart with the body increases so that I could count how many stitches I would need to make with each colorway, just for some assurance that I wouldn’t be playing yarn chicken with any of them. I also updated the sleeves to show the two stitches I’d need to increase to accommodate the 2×2 ribbing on the cuffs. I used blank table rows between each group of colorway rows to make it easy to select the table cells containing the stitch symbols for each colorway.