Tips to Make Lace Chart Reading Easier
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
- This video is part of a series on reading lace charts. This particular chart is a lace border that will be grafted to the body of the lace with a Russian graft.
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Thanks. Slowly but surely, I understand charts. The more I study them before beginning a project, the better I understand what is happening, how the stitches are creating movements, how they flow, and create the pattern. Thanks!!
Thank you for sharing your tutorials!! ❤
You are a godsend. Thank you for your clear videos
Great video thank you so much. You are great from Oaxaca, México.
Thank you too, SK! Greetings from Tennessee US! ❤️
Spiegazione dei segni per lavorare 🙏🤗
Grazie mille per aver guardato il mio video, Giuseppina!
I always colour/marker my charts: k2tog are pink, ssk are green, yo are yellow. I am consistent so just at a glance, the colour tells me what to do. Love your videos. Dianne
Great idea. For me, the slant tells me what to do. slant to left - ssk, slant to right - k2tog, just like the stitches in my work.
Thanks for watching and I hope you have become a subscriber to my channel. Happy knitting.
Brilliant 😊
Thanks 😊
You are very welcome! 😊
I didn’t think of the obvious. Love your tip of writing in the number of a long string of like stitches. That way I’m not recounting the same string of stitches. I have used this in the Aran sweater class cabling because there are from 6-20 of the same stitches on the chart sometimes. Thank you!
You are very welcome, Amy Happy knitting.
That’s beautiful wow! Love it Thank you much! Happy knitting!
Thank you! Happy knitting.
Thanks, Susan🌹I'm learning a lot from you
That's wonderful! Happy knitting.
Loving you already you Explain it Perfectly ❤️
Awww, that is so nice to hear, thank you! I love that you are watching so many of my videos, Marianne!! ❤️
@@SuzanneBryan Can the edge of a shawl be refigured if I cast on 425 and I really had 430 can I rip out the 5 sts and then do the 5 edge sts in pattern I already took out 12 rows 430 Ugh? Thanks Marianne 💜
I’ve worked many lace charts, some from books, but what I prefer to use is my iPad in Acrobat which allows me to make moveable highlight lines in whatever orientation I need and however many I need, to help myself follow along in the pattern.
I find this method is far easier than Acrobat Professional which I have on my Windows laptop, as Adobe Acrobat Professional on the computer is not as user friendly. Or I’ll import to one of by graphic arts programs such as CorelDRAW or Xara which is a vector drawing program and easy to use, then I can do what the other program on the iPad does so easily.
Printer ink is prohibitively expensive in comparison in years gone by where you paid for the printer’s worth and got the ink cheaply, now they basically give you the printer for free and you pay through the nose for the right to print anything. So if I can work paperless, I can afford knitting needles I have my eye on and yarn, yarn and how about patterns, like yours?
Have you ever tried Goodreader? That is my favorite. 🧶
Oh my, I had to giggle when I saw you "write in" the numbers of stitches between YO's! I've been doing this for years. I was putting my number, let's say "7" in the 7th box, whereas you write "7" in the first box in the series of 7 stitches. I like your way best. It's more immediately instructive. Either way, the idea is the same!
I also appreciated the way you used a heavy marker to add a "fence" between the neighboring yards: the leafy pattern stitch side of the yard, and the faggoting stitch side of the yard! Very good! I'll definitely do this when I've printed the full-size version of this beautiful Crescent Shawl!
Every little clue helps in reading a chart. Once I get them memorized, I can go much faster. Breaking it into parts is the key to memorization. Happy knitting.
Goddess!
Ahhh, so sweet! ❤️
Thank you so much! I will look at all your videos on lace. I knit a lot and do knit lace, but I want to do more and want to do it as art - framed , etc. One struggle I have is selecting yarn. I have bought lace weight yarn from Webs, Ravelry, Craftsy, etc. - and I wonder if you have suggestions or ideas on type of yarn which will block the best. Also- this may be a weird question - I want the lace wall art to have holes (obviously) and a leaf pattern - but I don't want the holes really large - as I want a lot of color. I know this has to do with choosing needle size - any suggestions about type of yarn and needle sizes would be so appreciated if you have the time. Just bought some silk yarn - knit picks brand - deep green - wanted to do a leaf lace large square - started off - and it looked bad. I think I am missing something...:) Your tips above are absolutely EXCELLENT!
For blocking, I like non-superwash wool the best. It will hold its shape once blocked and is not too drapey, although it is very lovely. Eunny Jang has a series of blogs about lace knitting. check them out - I think this will answer all of your questions about needles and yarn - eunnyjang.com/knit/2006/03/majoring_in_lace_introduction_1.html
Thanks - I have done a sweater class taught by Eunny - love her. Liked when she was on TV on PBS. Will check out her blog on lace. Just love your video and it was so inspiring and helpful!!
I do miss her. I learned so much from her.
What is the rectangle with 61 knit 61sts? Thanks ❤
Suzanne happy to have found your channel. I'm an experienced knitter but new to lace work.
I've been trying to knit a triangle lace shawl but keep failing. When I viewed this and your other youtube
videos on lace work the pattern made a lot more sense. Plan to join your Ravelry group and tutorial. Which lace project, from those you mentioned, do you suggest
for a complete beginner to choose? Aurora
If you purchase my Lacework Tutorial for $15 on Ravelry, I walk you through all of the basics, it is comprehensive for all of the lace shapes and charting details.
www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/lacework---a-skill-building-tutorial
@@SuzanneBryan Thanks Suzanne I did purchase the tutorial. Great price for all the info you provide.
Just finished my first sample swatch. You did so much work to present this tutorial. Well done.
@@auroranite Yay!
At the risk of sounding really stupid, what do the blocked off gray areas signify? The tips you gave are great? Very helpful! Thanks for sharing!
The grey areas indicate "no stitch", a placeholder. Just like the grey areas to the left of the chart edge. Not a stupid question at all. I should have addressed that in the video. In the prior videos that are in this series, they grey areas are addressed. Thank you and happy knitting.
Thanks for your quick response. Very much appreciated! I’ve just never seen that in a cart before. Granted I haven’t seen a lot of charts but I’ve seen enough and had never seen this before. I find chart reading a great asset. Many times I find them easier than a written pattern especially in crochet. I’ll go back over your tutorials. Thanks again!
Thanks, I am an avid chart reader too.
Does the Lace tutorial include the complete pattern for each type of shawl?
The lace tutorial contains the complete pattern for each mini shawl and directions for expanding each shawl shape and how to insert your own lace patterns into them. There are 5 shawl shapes in all. The fourth one just went out and the fifth will go out in two weeks. They are all very fun to work and educational in the process. I have used them as vehicles to teach a variety of techniques used in lace knitting. Happy knitting.
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