Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Working With Charts

This skill hasn't been one I've put a lot of time in on as it really confuses me.  Working today with my machine knitting friends we figured out how to read a chart in Mary Anne Oger's new book "The Handbook For Manual Machine Knitters" for the leaf pattern.

The very first symbol made no sense to me, but Ellen knew exactly what to do.  She showed me and I was off.  Following the chart and the list for the symbols.  Next it was Ellen's turn to get stuck and I knew what to do.  I told her we needed to work the bottom of the chart from the outside in and the top of the chart from the inside out.  I hope I've got this figured out.

Our swatches looked wonderful.  Ellen did a one leaf swatch and I did a 3 leaf swatch.  When practicing something I like to do it more than once to get it locked into my brain.

It was a fun day knitting.  I look forward to putting this leaf pattern on a project.