Lace Knitting Charts Fiddlesticks Knitting（胡说针织花边针织图表）.pdfVIP

Lace Knitting Charts www.fi dorothy@fi By Dorothy Siemens © 2012 Unders anding Char s in Lace Kni ing A blank squa e often means to knit the stitch. A chart is a visual representation of the knitted piece in symbol form. In written row-by-row instructions A ve tical line can also mean “knit.” there is no visual similarity at all to the actual knitted • A small dot often means to pu l the stitch. fabric. This is one of the main reasons why, once a A ho izontal line can also mean “pu l.” person becomes familiar with charts, they usually prefer them. o A ci cle usually means “ya nove ,” “ya n ove needle,” o ya n fo wa d.” Each square of the chart represents one stitch of knitting. A fo wa d slash usually means to knit two stitches Since each square represents one stitch of knitting, the togethe (o in sho t fo m, k2tog), which c eates a symbols inside each square indicate what that particular one-stitch dec ease that leans to the ight. stitch should be. There is usually an attempt to have This symbol can also mean “k2tog,” (two lines at the symbol mimic in graphic form the look or structure the bottom conve ge to c eate one ight-leaning of the actual stitch. The chart should be accompan