I know that this video is old, but every single time I have a problem and I need answers, there you are. Patiently instructing me and fixing everything! Thank you.
I bought several knitting kits from her and she's an excellent teacher. I have learned A LOT from her and I am a more confident knitter. I love her educational videos and would highly recommend her to any knitter.
This is best tutorial on chart reading i've seen! You are a wonderful educator. I had been very confused by charts' no-stitch boxes. Thank you very much.
Thank you! This was a fantastic video. I have never had a problem using fair isle charts for straight knitting but the decreases always confused me- it's all about over thinking it. Your explanation was JUST what I needed! THANK YOU!
Thank you SO much. After many years of knitting, I’ve recently embarked on knitting on the round and found the charts mind-boggling. 😱 What I thought was an easy little, semi-fairisle patterned bobble hat, has had me completely flummoxed on the decreases. You’ve made it all so simple and my TV has never had so many You Tube tutorials on it to assist. I can’t thank you enough!
I can't believe I just saw this immediately after I was going over this EXACT issue with a knitting buddy! Again, thank you for the wonderful, clear video that people can come back and review over and over again! Please do not stop! You are one of my favorites!
Fabulous, thank you and so simple once it’s explained. The decrease on my charted lace pattern had me totally stumped, off to tame the beast! Thank you x
I was scared to death of using a chart but once I tried it (a very simple chart), I loved it. However, I found a pattern the other day with all the "no stitch" things and I had no idea what they were talking about--now I know! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Thanks for explaining this I am fairly new to charts but I am an experienced knitter. I have a lace chart pattern and I figured it was R to L odd rows (usually right side ) and L to R even rows. Then it gets to about 6 rows to the end of the lace and suddenly there were blanks and I knew the pattern decreased from 95 to 75 to give a peplum bottom effect I knew the decrease would come somewhere as soon as I saw this I could see on the chart how the Dec worked thanks again x
this is really great help!!!!Wow!!!! I have also been on a Fair Isle kick. I compile my own charts and am having a blast. I actually draw them from left to right and reverse them in my mind. Thanks again.
Thank you! You have taught me to knit and now just when I needed you again, you were here. (Mine was a decrease on the top of colorwork mittens). Thank you so much!
Oh my gosh, i think I get It! I made multiple plain hats this winter and have avoided fair isle simply because it seemed too confusing. Thank you; despite heading into summer, I’m going to try this. Hi hi, hi ho, it’s off to knit I go 😀
Actually, a few patterns from the early 1940s have written out colorwork, and especially Victorian patterns (when working colorwork) also have the instructions written out instead of charted. I love your videos and your Podcast!
I feel like you're reading my mind! I've been making the Mitten Garland Advent calendar by Kathy Lewinski on Ravelry and I hadn't done charted decreases like that before but once I figured it out I flew right through it.
OMG!!!! I have been searching for a video to explain this right. I completely understand now and am ready for my first 2 color hat. Thank you..thank you...thank you so much.
Just a quick note to help people avoid confusion. You say that there will be only one stitch left in each repeat after completing the double decrease at the top of the (mythical) hat pattern. There will actually be two stitches left if you include the very first stitch in each repeat, which continues uninterrupted up the right side of the chart. So, to be clear, if this pattern were repeated 5 times around, you would have 10 stitches remaining on the needles, not 5.
Yes - thanks. I noticed that yesterday...I was so focused on the decreases that I forgot to mention the other lonely stitch in the chart! But not to worry - if you or I were actually working the chart, we wouldn't forget the stitch, because it would be there, on the needle, staring up at us. :)
I’m missing something. SSK requires two stitches. I see the SSK symbol, that’s one of the two stitches. Which is the other stitch - the one to the left or the one to the right of the symbol? I know this must be totally obvious, but not to me. Please help!
This is an excellent explanation of how to read a charted pattern, Staci! I loom knit and have been double knitting with 2 colors for almost a year now. I have a needle knit Star Wars color charted hat pattern that I want to do for my husband that incorporates 3 colors with decreases. I'll be able to decrease on the loom I'm going to use (kisslooms.com) and am very anxious to get started on it :) I love getting notifications of new videos from you! It's like seeing that a new episode of a favorite t.v. series has been released :) Thank you so much for all the time you put into making these for us. You have contributed greatly to making better knitters out of us all :)
Oooo I wonder if you could almost encorperate German short rows. I'm obsessed with GSRs, I might have to try with mittens 💖. Finger up GSR fair isle mitts? Lol
Doing fair isle hats myself, check out Arne and Carlos website for written and charted fair isle patterns, and love the explanation of the chart you give, thank you!
This was a very good video as all your videos are, but I have problems with in a pattern stitch panel within say an armhole dec. Have you any suggestions for that? I've tried all over the place and there doesn't seem to be any hard and fast rule/way to do this. Tia
I am knitting a cabled cardigan made with mohair and the sweater is knittedin pieces. When decreasing for the shoulders, armholes, neckline, or the sleeves should I knit in stockinette when I cannot knit the charted stitch(es)?
have you ever thought about trying to do instruction for people who are interested in learning how to create patterns themselves? and what the steps are for that? or is that just something that comes with experience, observation and the innate desire to create that just propels you forward? I've really enjoyed picking up knitting again, and your videos have been so helpful! but I tend towards always wanting to figure out how to plan it, make it, understand it etc... and chart my own course! Tips?
Thank you for the suggestion, Chara. I've had that suggestion many times, but when I put thought into it, the topic is really so so big. Designing is a lot of trial and error, and with people with different skill levels watching my videos, I honestly haven't found a good starting point for "how to design" videos. I'm still thinking on it, though. :)
The way you easily explain things, especially with chart patterns, has made me more and more enamored with them! I do have a question about today's video. I understood the direction in the one stitch '\' meant to SSK. I know how to work the SSK, but my question is the very next stitch on the chart. That stitch is NOT one of the stitches included in the SSK, correct? In other words, that stitch is the very next stitch you work once you've completed the SSK? Sometimes it's these little things that completely flummox me! Thank you for this great video and all of the videos you've produce that have taught me so much!!
Karen - correct. If the pattern is well-written, you can trust the chart...just work the decrease in the color indicated, and the following stitch will be a normal stitch (not a decrease) in the color indicated.
@@verypinkknits How do you decrease with only one stitch? The grey box is no stitch. The \ is an SSK. The next box is a knit stitch. I think that the grey box has to be part of the SSK.
I was wondering if you could clear something up for me, perhaps on the podcast: the term "Fair Isle" seems to be used interchangeably with or instead of "stranded" knitting by a lot of well-known knitters. I thought Fair Isle was a specific type of stranded knitting, but not all stranded knitting is Fair Isle. Thanks for all the help!
The difference, as I understand it, is that fair isle is colorwork using only two colors per round/row. "Stranded knitting" can be more colors, and can also include mosiac (slipped stitch) knitting. I use "fair isle" pretty generally, but I know others use it only when referring to designs unique to Fair Isle in Scotland.
The slip slip knit takes two stitches only one stitch box has the \ symbol. Do you use the stitch before or after that box as the second stitch in the SSK? I generally, always, over think these things 🤪
Rhonda, I have the same question. I think that you use the stitch with the slash on it and the next stitch to make the SSK. The grey block is no stitch.
I love your videos . I am working a graph which calls for decrease 6 in the middle of the work. I have practiced from the instruction I have, but it doesn’t look right. Can you help me ? .
This is very specific to that pattern...I recommend contacting the pattern designer directly for advice, Ravelry message is usually a good way to reach designers.
Thank you for this tutorial. I have a question, how I can reduce the size of my chart? I have one chart that I would like to use for a kid hat, is a penguin but the chart that I found is 59 stitches of wide and 95 stitches for high. Definitely the high is too much and I would like to reduce the size but I don't know how to do it.
That's not really something I can answer here...you're essentially redesigning the hat pattern. You will likely have to re-chart the design for a smaller hat.
What about increases in a charted Fair Isle pattern? I am knitting sleeves in the round with increases with a 12 stitch pattern repeat. The increases are at the beginning and end of approx. every 6th row - and within the 12 stitch pattern.
The chart you're working from should explain where the stitches go - I don't really see a question in your comment, I recommend contacting the pattern designer for help specific to your pattern.
This is a great video, BUT doesn't answer the related question I have about my own nordic hat chart which includes decreases but no 'gray' empty spaces. The chart I'm using includes a continuous row of a 24 stitch pattern, with no empty spaces. The pattern repeats 8 times around the crown, but the chart doesn't indicate the stitch lost by the decrease. So I'm concerned i'm going to botch the whole pattern.
Hmm...this sounds unique to your pattern. If there are fewer stitches in a row/round, the chart should reflect that. I recommend contacting the pattern designer directly for help.
When patterns are only charted and not written out blind and other visually disabled knitters are shut out of using the pattern. More and more patterns are being written with charts only, because charts are easier for the designer while making it impossible for lots of knitters. Worst is when a pattern doesn't tell you that it is charted only.
Your chart may show the blocks grayed out that WILL BE grayed out once the decreases of that row are completed. You'll need to contact the pattern designer for clarification.
Correction: You would have 10 stitches left, if we were meant to follow the chart given. Remember that little white stitch on the right side! besides 10 stitches would make more sense for the top of a hat anyway :)
Bah - you are so right! I did forget about that other stitch! If I was actually knitting the hat, I would remember, since the stitch would be there staring up at me. :)
It might be good to add an annotation, but thanks for the video. I have a list of things I wish you'd make a vid on because yours always have such good quality :)
Hi Staci, great video and explanation. Just curious, if the hat is knitted in the round, why are there left and right leaning decreases? Or this one is another thing?
That is a good question. Yes, the hat is knit in-the-round (and a charted pattern I made up for this video), but I still want the decreases to favor the colorwork in the hat. In this case, I have a straight line of stitches with no decreases, then a left-leaning decrease, a straight line of stitches, and a right leaning decrease. It will make for a nice look on the crown of the hat. (Even though I made this chart up for the video, the decreases are typical of a fair isle hat.)
VeryPink Knits thanks a lot for the explanation. Keep up the good work. Talking about fair isle pattern, have you ever heard of or tried a technique called roositud, it's an Estonian inlay technique which is not really fair isle or intarsia but by just letting the external yarn being woven in and out to create an isolated pattern, it's not knitted in like typical fair isle or intarsia. Would like to hear from your opinion on it and about its use. I think it'd be nice to add on to your video idea. Just a suggestion.
I understand what you are describing, however my question is the actual decreases. I know how to do an SSK and a knit 2 tog. So...Does the square take into account that knit 2 tog takes 2 stitches? but it's represented as one square? Is that correct?
Sas Zegretti it does, but it also counts the square/stitch taken from the previous row if that makes sense? Just ignore those grey boxes entirely and work it like you would written pattern (ssk, k1 mc, k2 cc, k1 mc, k2tog)
I wanted to ask if your knitting a pattern that you want knit extra rows but in pattern tell you you need 170 yards and you have 270 yards and wish to make use of most if not almost all the skein how do you approximate how many extra rows you can knit before binding off? I hope you get what I am saying 😕
To be really accurate, you'll need to calculate the amount of knitting you're getting per yard of yarn, by using your stitches per inch and extrapolating to the yard. Then you will know how more many stitches/rows you can add based on the yarn you have. If it is a simple pattern (like a scarf) you can just keep knitting until you're nearly out of yarn, then bind off. Good luck!
Hi, I need to make a complex cable sweater but don't know how. Unfortunately, I can't attach the photo to my comment. Can I email you the photo and you explain in a video how to make it? Please let me know if you are interested. Thanks 💐
I know that this video is old, but every single time I have a problem and I need answers, there you are. Patiently instructing me and fixing everything! Thank you.
You're welcome. :). The video might be a few years old, but the information is still fresh!
I bought several knitting kits from her and she's an excellent teacher. I have learned A LOT from her and I am a more confident knitter. I love her educational videos and would highly recommend her to any knitter.
Thank goodness you did this video. I’m about to embark on my first faire isle hat and my brain froze when I saw the grey blocks. Thank you so much! 😊
This is best tutorial on chart reading i've seen! You are a wonderful educator. I had been very confused by charts' no-stitch boxes. Thank you very much.
Thank you! This was a fantastic video. I have never had a problem using fair isle charts for straight knitting but the decreases always confused me- it's all about over thinking it. Your explanation was JUST what I needed! THANK YOU!
This is my first time that I actually understand the chart. Thanks for the explanation.
Thank you, thank you , thank you, I wouldn't even give this pattern a try without your very clear and easy to understand tutorial.
Thank you SO much. After many years of knitting, I’ve recently embarked on knitting on the round and found the charts mind-boggling. 😱 What I thought was an easy little, semi-fairisle patterned bobble hat, has had me completely flummoxed on the decreases. You’ve made it all so simple and my TV has never had so many You Tube tutorials on it to assist.
I can’t thank you enough!
I can't believe I just saw this immediately after I was going over this EXACT issue with a knitting buddy! Again, thank you for the wonderful, clear video that people can come back and review over and over again! Please do not stop! You are one of my favorites!
Fabulous, thank you and so simple once it’s explained. The decrease on my charted lace pattern had me totally stumped, off to tame the beast! Thank you x
THANK you!! I have been working my first kep and the directions about decreasing were like mud. Your help was just great. I am ready to forge onward!
I was scared to death of using a chart but once I tried it (a very simple chart), I loved it. However, I found a pattern the other day with all the "no stitch" things and I had no idea what they were talking about--now I know! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Great Video!!! You are ABSOLUTELY my “go to” for troublesome new techniques! Thank you, Thank you! ❤
Thanks for explaining this I am fairly new to charts but I am an experienced knitter.
I have a lace chart pattern and I figured it was R to L odd rows (usually right side ) and L to R even rows. Then it gets to about 6 rows to the end of the lace and suddenly there were blanks and I knew the pattern decreased from 95 to 75 to give a peplum bottom effect I knew the decrease would come somewhere as soon as I saw this I could see on the chart how the Dec worked thanks again x
I’ve followed your pattern and love it. I’ve made a baby hat and I’m on the second adult hat now☺️thank you
this is really great help!!!!Wow!!!! I have also been on a Fair Isle kick. I compile my own charts and am having a blast. I actually draw them from left to right and reverse them in my mind. Thanks again.
This was so very helpful! Thank you - you've solved the mystery of the grayed-out stitches for me!
Thank you for taking the 'scary' out of chart reading. I'm sure going to give it a try now! Thanks!
Thank you! You have taught me to knit and now just when I needed you again, you were here. (Mine was a decrease on the top of colorwork mittens). Thank you so much!
Oh my gosh, i think I get It! I made multiple plain hats this winter and have avoided fair isle simply because it seemed too confusing. Thank you; despite heading into summer, I’m going to try this. Hi hi, hi ho, it’s off to knit I go 😀
Actually, a few patterns from the early 1940s have written out colorwork, and especially Victorian patterns (when working colorwork) also have the instructions written out instead of charted.
I love your videos and your Podcast!
I feel like you're reading my mind! I've been making the Mitten Garland Advent calendar by Kathy Lewinski on Ravelry and I hadn't done charted decreases like that before but once I figured it out I flew right through it.
Thank you, this was exactly what I needed to help me understand the stranded hat pattern I'm doing!
Thanks. I just came to the “no stitch” box for the first time. This helped.
Hi Stacie thank you for making chart reading so easy!!!!!I always get confused even in crochet patterns
OMG!!!! I have been searching for a video to explain this right. I completely understand now and am ready for my first 2 color hat. Thank you..thank you...thank you so much.
Just a quick note to help people avoid confusion. You say that there will be only one stitch left in each repeat after completing the double decrease at the top of the (mythical) hat pattern. There will actually be two stitches left if you include the very first stitch in each repeat, which continues uninterrupted up the right side of the chart. So, to be clear, if this pattern were repeated 5 times around, you would have 10 stitches remaining on the needles, not 5.
Yes - thanks. I noticed that yesterday...I was so focused on the decreases that I forgot to mention the other lonely stitch in the chart! But not to worry - if you or I were actually working the chart, we wouldn't forget the stitch, because it would be there, on the needle, staring up at us. :)
thank you thank you now I understand how to get through the chart I was working on
So glad I found your tutorial! Great explanation. Thank you
I’m missing something. SSK requires two stitches. I see the SSK symbol, that’s one of the two stitches. Which is the other stitch - the one to the left or the one to the right of the symbol? I know this must be totally obvious, but not to me. Please help!
My question also.
Thank you. finally I understood!! Happy New Year!
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"That stitch did not grow back." Hahahaha! :-D
This is an excellent explanation of how to read a charted pattern, Staci! I loom knit and have been double knitting with 2 colors for almost a year now. I have a needle knit Star Wars color charted hat pattern that I want to do for my husband that incorporates 3 colors with decreases. I'll be able to decrease on the loom I'm going to use (kisslooms.com) and am very anxious to get started on it :)
I love getting notifications of new videos from you! It's like seeing that a new episode of a favorite t.v. series has been released :) Thank you so much for all the time you put into making these for us. You have contributed greatly to making better knitters out of us all :)
This was so easy to understand! Thank you very much :)
This is great, just what I needed. Thank you
Oooo I wonder if you could almost encorperate German short rows. I'm obsessed with GSRs, I might have to try with mittens 💖. Finger up GSR fair isle mitts? Lol
Wow! No stitch! Thank you so much!
thank you! this is a lifesaver
Thank You, for sharing this video. i love it.
Thank you, this makes a lot of sense.
Thank you! This now makes sense
Doing fair isle hats myself, check out Arne and Carlos website for written and charted fair isle patterns, and love the explanation of the chart you give, thank you!
This was a very good video as all your videos are, but I have problems with in a pattern stitch panel within say an armhole dec. Have you any suggestions for that? I've tried all over the place and there doesn't seem to be any hard and fast rule/way to do this. Tia
OMG THANK YOU!!!!! much I now can do this one sweater I have that is steeked you are wonderful
I am knitting a cabled cardigan made with mohair and the sweater is knittedin pieces. When decreasing for the shoulders, armholes, neckline, or the sleeves should I knit in stockinette when I cannot knit the charted stitch(es)?
I love your videos. Thank you so much
Clear and concise!
Ahaaa!!!! Now I got it!!! Thank you!!! Now it's clear!!! Thank you :)
Love this, thanks
have you ever thought about trying to do instruction for people who are interested in learning how to create patterns themselves? and what the steps are for that? or is that just something that comes with experience, observation and the innate desire to create that just propels you forward? I've really enjoyed picking up knitting again, and your videos have been so helpful! but I tend towards always wanting to figure out how to plan it, make it, understand it etc... and chart my own course! Tips?
Thank you for the suggestion, Chara. I've had that suggestion many times, but when I put thought into it, the topic is really so so big. Designing is a lot of trial and error, and with people with different skill levels watching my videos, I honestly haven't found a good starting point for "how to design" videos. I'm still thinking on it, though. :)
The way you easily explain things, especially with chart patterns, has made me more and more enamored with them! I do have a question about today's video. I understood the direction in the one stitch '\' meant to SSK. I know how to work the SSK, but my question is the very next stitch on the chart. That stitch is NOT one of the stitches included in the SSK, correct? In other words, that stitch is the very next stitch you work once you've completed the SSK? Sometimes it's these little things that completely flummox me! Thank you for this great video and all of the videos you've produce that have taught me so much!!
Karen - correct. If the pattern is well-written, you can trust the chart...just work the decrease in the color indicated, and the following stitch will be a normal stitch (not a decrease) in the color indicated.
@@verypinkknits How do you decrease with only one stitch? The grey box is no stitch. The \ is an SSK. The next box is a knit stitch. I think that the grey box has to be part of the SSK.
I love fair isle. I'm looking for a fair isle pattern for an adult poncho that's in the round. I'm not having any luck.
Debbie Chittick I have a library of items I've done I've always needed a challenge so I will look and send you the info if you want
Hi Kelly, I would love that. Thank you. How? I don't want to put my email address in a public forum.
can you make a video about shaping lace please?
When you do SSK are you slipping the stitch before (grey square) the slash? Then k2tog are you using the grey square?
If it isn't specified otherwise in the pattern, that's how I would do it.
Hi Staci! I'm curious about what site or software you use to make charts, it looks really tidy!
I just use Microsoft Excel. :) Nothing fancy! I change the cell shape to square, and go from there.
I never thought of using Excel for charting, it's a pretty good idea. Thank you!
Stitchfiddle works well. It's free(signup required though). You can upload pictures or free hand it. I use it a lot for cable work.
I need this!!
Great Video! Thank you
What about if the pattern is for a mitten and each side has a different design and one side has an extra stitch?
I was wondering if you could clear something up for me, perhaps on the podcast: the term "Fair Isle" seems to be used interchangeably with or instead of "stranded" knitting by a lot of well-known knitters. I thought Fair Isle was a specific type of stranded knitting, but not all stranded knitting is Fair Isle. Thanks for all the help!
The difference, as I understand it, is that fair isle is colorwork using only two colors per round/row. "Stranded knitting" can be more colors, and can also include mosiac (slipped stitch) knitting. I use "fair isle" pretty generally, but I know others use it only when referring to designs unique to Fair Isle in Scotland.
The slip slip knit takes two stitches only one stitch box has the \ symbol. Do you use the stitch before or after that box as the second stitch in the SSK? I generally, always, over think these things 🤪
Rhonda, I have the same question. I think that you use the stitch with the slash on it and the next stitch to make the SSK. The grey block is no stitch.
I love your videos . I am working a graph which calls for decrease 6 in the middle of the work. I have practiced from the instruction I have, but it doesn’t look right. Can you help me ?
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This is very specific to that pattern...I recommend contacting the pattern designer directly for advice, Ravelry message is usually a good way to reach designers.
Thank you for this!
Thank you for this tutorial. I have a question, how I can reduce the size of my chart? I have one chart that I would like to use for a kid hat, is a penguin but the chart that I found is 59 stitches of wide and 95 stitches for high. Definitely the high is too much and I would like to reduce the size but I don't know how to do it.
That's not really something I can answer here...you're essentially redesigning the hat pattern. You will likely have to re-chart the design for a smaller hat.
Great video. However, how would decreases work in a fair isle pattern if your row gauge is off?
Maybe I don't understand your question, but your row gauge won't effect your ability to work decreases in a charted pattern.
What about increases in a charted Fair Isle pattern? I am knitting sleeves in the round with increases with a 12 stitch pattern repeat. The increases are at the beginning and end of approx. every 6th row - and within the 12 stitch pattern.
The chart you're working from should explain where the stitches go - I don't really see a question in your comment, I recommend contacting the pattern designer for help specific to your pattern.
2:25 thank you! I was wondering how my hat would end up being one sided lol
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This is a great video, BUT doesn't answer the related question I have about my own nordic hat chart which includes decreases but no 'gray' empty spaces. The chart I'm using includes a continuous row of a 24 stitch pattern, with no empty spaces. The pattern repeats 8 times around the crown, but the chart doesn't indicate the stitch lost by the decrease. So I'm concerned i'm going to botch the whole pattern.
Hmm...this sounds unique to your pattern. If there are fewer stitches in a row/round, the chart should reflect that. I recommend contacting the pattern designer directly for help.
When patterns are only charted and not written out blind and other visually disabled knitters are shut out of using the pattern. More and more patterns are being written with charts only, because charts are easier for the designer while making it impossible for lots of knitters. Worst is when a pattern doesn't tell you that it is charted only.
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The ssk and k2tog are marked in one square. How is that done when you need 2 sts for each stitch? You say ignore the grey blocks.
Your chart may show the blocks grayed out that WILL BE grayed out once the decreases of that row are completed. You'll need to contact the pattern designer for clarification.
@@verypinkknits Thank you for your rapid reply. Your videos are always so clear but patterns are not always so.
Correction: You would have 10 stitches left, if we were meant to follow the chart given. Remember that little white stitch on the right side! besides 10 stitches would make more sense for the top of a hat anyway :)
Bah - you are so right! I did forget about that other stitch! If I was actually knitting the hat, I would remember, since the stitch would be there staring up at me. :)
It might be good to add an annotation, but thanks for the video. I have a list of things I wish you'd make a vid on because yours always have such good quality :)
I'm always ready to hear ideas for new videos - just email them to staci@verypink.com. Most of the videos I release come from viewer suggestions!
Hi Staci, great video and explanation. Just curious, if the hat is knitted in the round, why are there left and right leaning decreases? Or this one is another thing?
That is a good question. Yes, the hat is knit in-the-round (and a charted pattern I made up for this video), but I still want the decreases to favor the colorwork in the hat. In this case, I have a straight line of stitches with no decreases, then a left-leaning decrease, a straight line of stitches, and a right leaning decrease. It will make for a nice look on the crown of the hat. (Even though I made this chart up for the video, the decreases are typical of a fair isle hat.)
VeryPink Knits thanks a lot for the explanation. Keep up the good work.
Talking about fair isle pattern, have you ever heard of or tried a technique called roositud, it's an Estonian inlay technique which is not really fair isle or intarsia but by just letting the external yarn being woven in and out to create an isolated pattern, it's not knitted in like typical fair isle or intarsia. Would like to hear from your opinion on it and about its use. I think it'd be nice to add on to your video idea. Just a suggestion.
I understand what you are describing, however my question is the actual decreases. I know how to do an SSK and a knit 2 tog. So...Does the square take into account that knit 2 tog takes 2 stitches? but it's represented as one square? Is that correct?
Sas Zegretti it does, but it also counts the square/stitch taken from the previous row if that makes sense? Just ignore those grey boxes entirely and work it like you would written pattern (ssk, k1 mc, k2 cc, k1 mc, k2tog)
Yes - just work the decrease in the color indicated on the chart (whatever chart you are working), and the color pattern will show up as it should.
I wanted to ask if your knitting a pattern that you want knit extra rows but in pattern tell you you need 170 yards and you have 270 yards and wish to make use of most if not almost all the skein how do you approximate how many extra rows you can knit before binding off?
I hope you get what I am saying 😕
To be really accurate, you'll need to calculate the amount of knitting you're getting per yard of yarn, by using your stitches per inch and extrapolating to the yard. Then you will know how more many stitches/rows you can add based on the yarn you have. If it is a simple pattern (like a scarf) you can just keep knitting until you're nearly out of yarn, then bind off. Good luck!
VeryPink Knits thanks for the advice.😇
Hi, I need to make a complex cable sweater but don't know how. Unfortunately, I can't attach the photo to my comment. Can I email you the photo and you explain in a video how to make it? Please let me know if you are interested. Thanks 💐
I recommend contacting the pattern designer for assistance.
I’ll have to watch this again....I guess I’m not a chart girl, lol.