Ariel's craft journal (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} dragoncrafter) wrote in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} advanced_knit,@ 2005-05-03 16:42:00 |
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Tree Chart
Someday I shall make a knitting symbol font, and it shall be fixed width, and it shall take into account the possibility that someone might want to do increases while doing cable crossings, and it shall make "knit" and "purl" look very very different.
But since I haven't done this yet, I charted out the branches of my tree using the Aire River Design font. (Some minor changes have been made. Specifically, the leaves are bigger and more spaced apart, which means that there are fewer of them, and I've moved it up a little.)
The key to these charts is here. Let me know if it is unclear (or if I made any mistakes writing it down.)
This is an alternative version of the last few rows, that you can use if you're also putting your tree on a Rogue. The numbers indicate the row number of Chart B of Rogue that it should be replacing. (So just after finishing this part, you would work the row of Rogue containing Row 25 of Chart B.)
It's in three pieces because, frankly, it looks like a mess if it isn't.
Note that these are half-charts. So you start at the right edge and work from right to left. Then you work back from left to right, skipping the first stitch. (So on the bottom row, for example, you would work a bunch of purl stitches, then three knit stitches, then a bunch more purl stitches.) (Note that
counts as a single "stitch", so you work the corresponding instructions exactly once, even though it's three squares wide.)
Edit: Oh, right! Roots!
This is where I have the biggest modifications from what I did before. Specifically, I made all the roots twice as thick so they didn't look titchy next to the branches.
More edit: Minor errors have been corrected in the "roots" section and in the third (bottom) tree section.
The trunk is just a three-stitch knit rib all the way up.
Edit: I am a very tight knitter. I get better results by working yarn overs and then knitting them the next row through the back loop. You may get better results by just skipping the yarn overs and doing twisted make-1 increases the next row.
Someday I shall make a knitting symbol font, and it shall be fixed width, and it shall take into account the possibility that someone might want to do increases while doing cable crossings, and it shall make "knit" and "purl" look very very different.
But since I haven't done this yet, I charted out the branches of my tree using the Aire River Design font. (Some minor changes have been made. Specifically, the leaves are bigger and more spaced apart, which means that there are fewer of them, and I've moved it up a little.)
The key to these charts is here. Let me know if it is unclear (or if I made any mistakes writing it down.)
This is an alternative version of the last few rows, that you can use if you're also putting your tree on a Rogue. The numbers indicate the row number of Chart B of Rogue that it should be replacing. (So just after finishing this part, you would work the row of Rogue containing Row 25 of Chart B.)
It's in three pieces because, frankly, it looks like a mess if it isn't.
Note that these are half-charts. So you start at the right edge and work from right to left. Then you work back from left to right, skipping the first stitch. (So on the bottom row, for example, you would work a bunch of purl stitches, then three knit stitches, then a bunch more purl stitches.) (Note that
counts as a single "stitch", so you work the corresponding instructions exactly once, even though it's three squares wide.)Edit: Oh, right! Roots!
This is where I have the biggest modifications from what I did before. Specifically, I made all the roots twice as thick so they didn't look titchy next to the branches.
More edit: Minor errors have been corrected in the "roots" section and in the third (bottom) tree section.
The trunk is just a three-stitch knit rib all the way up.
Edit: I am a very tight knitter. I get better results by working yarn overs and then knitting them the next row through the back loop. You may get better results by just skipping the yarn overs and doing twisted make-1 increases the next row.
