You can also use post it notes on a chart. Recently I bought myself a
small magnetic board and made a long magnet from fridge magnets. I
now use this for working charts. Unlike the stickies, it never needs
replacing.
Nita in Calgary on a warm and windy day
On 18-Dec-11, at 2:31 PM, Cla
Hello Mary and everyone
To add to the good advice so far - especially the row-reading, I use
replaceable arrow 'stickies' to mark the row I'm on, or the stitch block if
I'm interrupted during a row. It is also a good idea to get used to reading
one's knitting against the graph to eliminate that fe
I use one of the cross-stitch embroidery metal boards and magnets to follow
the pattern when using a graph. The magnet covers up the row above the one I
am working. This way I can see what stitches I should be working into what
stiches on the row below.
Sue
sueba...@comcast.net
-Origina
Hi All
My 'ten-pennorth' (Old Yorkshire Saying) is that when you are 'reading
the chart' you have to imagine which way the yarn moves on each
row right to left on odd rows, and left to right on even rows,
just as Clay has stated. Now the way I always remember it is that you
always hav
In my note to Mary Carey, I failed to mention that the single best "tool" I
have found to help with charts is a roll of sticky-tape made in see-through
colors which is like "post it notes" in that the tape can be pulled up and
repositioned numerous times. I always use a strip of this to inderli
Dear Mary Carey -
I have knitted for decades, although I admit that my obcession with bobbin lace
sharply cut into my knitting time for about ten years. But between the time I
stopped, and the time I started again, the knitting world had embraced graphs,
and after following them (or diagrams)
ne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com]
> On Behalf Of mary carey
> Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 8:41 PM
> To: pigscanfl...@ntlworld.com; lace@arachne.com
> Subject: RE: [lace] Manos lace weight yarn
>
> Hi All,
>
>
> Have worked from a graph on lots of occasions
Hi All,
Treated my eldest daughter - lives in Windsor, Ontario - to some credit at a
local knitting store for her birthday and Christmas - and she is already
knitting a shawl. She asked me questions I could not answer about knitting
from a graph. Have worked from a graph on lots of occasions for
> I am currently knitting a lace pattern shawl in this ( Manos pattern
> annabelle) in natural colour. I started a year or so ago and then had to take
> on a burst as daughter announced she was expecting next March. The yarn knits
> up a treat and the pattern is lovely unless you drop a stitch i
