Carla Ficorilli I have the same question! Some of the rows say YO,K1(8 times). We simply keep the needle straight and insert it into a stitch from right to left. Illustrated explanation of Russian knitting symbols. 10:17 am, Can you be more specific about your question? February 7, 2022 @ But other then that, Im not sure how to do this. Hi Sarah Im sorry, I cant really say what the issue is without looking at the pattern. Thank you for this incredibly useful post! Now I had a second problem. What are the green lines for? Hi Emily! Thank you! https://tincanknits.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/blog-chart-reading-04.jpg?w=600&h=386 Theres no such thing as right or left-handed chart following. 1:53 pm. A Adyana You may be right! What am I missing? alexaludeman 7:16 pm. Emilie Kate Scott 1:08 pm, Question : Some fair isle/ colour work charts show a square that is called no stitch This completely baffles me!! 5:45 pm. That would be my first guess? 9:50 am. Christine Got into awful trouble for reading at the same time and making a mistake. January 13, 2015 @ The chart is read from bottom to top, just as the knitting progresses from the cast-on to the bind-off. 4:35 pm. But beyond this practical function there is also a decorative element. June 7, 2018 @ Im working on your Stovetop Hat. As I find more of these charts I will keep adding them to this post! 5:51 pm. If anyone is familiar with it I would really appreciate your help! loreleieurto Do I just slip it to right needle. 1:47 pm. I am knitting the 1999 sweater and having trouble with the lace chart. Thank you very much for your help. This was very very helpful. 6:14 am. 10:50 am. I have worked through many issues before even getting going, and, from the conversations on Ravelry, expect many more. 4:13 am, If you want to convert a usually knitted flat chart to an in the round chart what do you do with the wrong side rows of the chart when you are in the round, do you ignore the shown wrong side rows or knit them starting from the opposite direction. The neck warmer will use about 220m-300m DK weight yarn. 12:21 pm. March 21, 2016 @ What am I missing here? TRIED OTHER DISHCLOTH SIMPLE DESIGN OR NAME AND ONLY THING I CANT FIGURE OUT IS HOW MANY TO CAST ON HOPE YA CAN HELP, alexaludeman Are you missing a k1 between the last yo and the k2tog? Have a great day! Purl is the most common stitch in this pattern, so a blank square is used to avoid visual clutter. On rows 29, 43, 67 it seems the bold chart line moves over 1 stitch. Does the v in the chart indicate the actual increased stitch or do I start the increase on the v? Could you please explain how the increases are inserted? Elsje I think I figured it out. Hello! At a knitting pattern can be very confusing is that a foreign language it is written in? 9:41 am, Hi Agnes Im sorry, without knowing the pattern I dont really know what the designer intends, Marian pat The pattern does not seem to me that all wrong side rows are purled. The chart box for the pattern is a 28-stitch repeat by 37 rows. Thank you so much for your help in translating! Rosina Alaimo October 24, 2016 @ May 15, 2016 @ 12:08 pm. May 13, 2020 @ 9:45 am. I have no idea how the original is pronounced, but in what looks to be a one for one letter swap, Latin alphabet for Cyrillic, uzor (plural uzori) appears to mean stitch or pattern. No cabling in the even rounds!!! 10:48 am. 1.As you hold the tip of the needle with your right fingers, take the working yarn with your left middle, ring and little fingers so that there is a bit of space between the fingers and the needle. Your careful descriptions and illustrations gave me my Aha! moment. Sadly though Russian knitting symbol interpretation seems to be just as jumbled as Western charting, with different sources using either different symbols to mean the same thing, or using the same symbols but employing them differently. You work them in different ways when they occur at the start (or end) of the lace panel. October 11, 2019 @ March 26, 2018 @ Can you help? Carrollton, TX 75007 12:26 pm. Andrej Isakovic/AFP via Getty Images. 11:16 am. 3. But row 85, the bold chart lines moves one st to the left, but the arrow is pointing left. January 5, 2018 @ Laura Gibson Lori Bufanio However, I did find some darling dinosaur patterns under perler bead patternss that were just right. Roberta, Renee Its difficult because there is no standardized set. Do you mean to add the stitch before or after the box? 6:20 am. I cant drop it. Best luck! September 28, 2015 @ Which makes sense if you are moving the marker. I am working in the round and am ready to start the color work. I dont know what stitches that should be. You might want to try contacting the designer of the pattern, or maybe popping into your LYS (they usually know whats up), Becky That would make sense, would the pattern repeat then be in a knit rather than a purl? September 9, 2016 @ For the Antler Hat you are working a number of purl sts (either 3 or 5 depending on your size) between the cables. Have had to frog my work twice halfway through. Help??!!? October 12, 2014 @ For example for chart A i have 5 stitches until the centreline stitch and i have to k1, yo,[ k1, k2tog, yo,] k1 which by my calculation will use 7 stitches. 9:27 am. Welcome to the new home of the International Glossary of Knitting Terms. June 12, 2016 @ It is the father cable pattern. 4:25 am, My pattern say p2(2:3:4 2:2) p2tog (2(2:3:2:3;3) p2tog) 8 (8;6;8;8;8) times p2(2:3:4:2:2), Alexa Ludeman Russian knitting symbol. 8:50 am, Hi Glenda Ive not seen this kind of convention before, but it sounds like the chart repeat is the section from stitches 20 through 70. Im knitting a vest pattern with a right side cable chart and a left side cable chart, pattern is by Bristol Ivy, and the name is Delius. 12:53 pm, Hi Sue Its hard to say without actually looking at the pattern, but usually the increase would start on the V, Sarah I think I just need to knit it and watch it pan out :), Susie Faulhaber Hello, It would depend if it was a symmetrical lace pattern. The personal character and career of one man are so intimately connected with the great scheme of the years 1719 and 1720, that a history of the Mississippi madness can have no fitter introduction than a sketch of the life of its great author John Law. Hmm, without looking at the pattern Im not 100% sure. As I find more of these charts I will keep adding them to this post! I might try emailing the designer or published for a little clarification. This was such an awesome information packed article Ive been looking for. Zuzana The needle gets a little heavier, changing the tension on the stitches. Thank you, Susie, alexaludeman Kristin alexaludeman It has a red line around the very first box which it days the symbol means repeat. Its a lace pattern, not a color design. 9:27 am. You work two yarn-overs in a row by simply wrapping the yarn TWICE around the needle, rather than just once as you would for a regular yarn-over. Weve already discussed the most common way to cast on stitches in Eastern (previously known as Russian) knitting. does that mean work the chart up to row 18 and if it doesnt measure the 18 inches by then do I go back down to row 3 and work my way up the chart until the piece measures its 18 inches ? When I get to the gusset round 1 , would that be the third row of the chart? I am talking about the purl on RS and knit on RS boxes. October 18, 2017 @ 5:53 am. Does this mean that I should decrease stitches or cast off to form those triangles? 7:09 pm. 7:50 am, Hi Useful charts i have found for translating russian knitting chart symbols into english. Then it is meant to be a circular chart but the wrong side rows are showing as flat. Charts are hideous things requiring a whole lot of time spent writing them out first. Momzilla 2:21 am. 10:33 am. March 29, 2015 @ The symbol of Russian-Ukrainian unity appeared to be breaking into two. So where only right side rows are shown, this means that you read each row shown in the chart from RIGHT to LEFT. Im making a Christmas stocking, using a chart and the directions say All of the sts that are purled on the RS are marked as pattern sts on the chart. Or, you can make that wrap at the very beginning, before you follow step 1. November 9, 2016 @ Thanks again!!! What does knit back mean? Beginner knitter here obviously! Hi Jane no stitch means just that, ignore that square. Russian symbols with illustrations for . Polish-English-German . 12:06 pm. A famed statue of Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid, one of Copenhagen's biggest tourist draws, has been vandalised with the colours of the Russian flag. Thank you, and keep up the fine designs! ~ Em, Beth 3:02 pm. Ive read various how to read Japanese knitting charts but I still cannot tell if my patterns pattern stitch chart is showing ALL rows or just RS rows. I am having the same issue as Mindy. Charts will either show all rows (or rounds) or only illustrate one side of the work, usually the right side. Some of it seems to be similar to the notation found in Japanese crochet patterns. November 15, 2021 @ Hi Nadine Do you work your knitting left to right as well? I have a question about reading knit charts for hats. I am experienced, but I just dont get how to do this. Thanks for the tutorial, I think I get it but Im still stuck with a bonnet pattern I am attempting. 9:17 pm. Hi Desre Im sorry, I have no idea. Its hard to know, definitively, if a chart doesnt work without trying knitting it first. There are 21 pearl stitches and on stitch 20 it is pearl 2 together. Hopefully the chart notes will give you some clues? Hi Dawn I cant really help without seeing the pattern. Cindy, alexaludeman 3:26 pm, Hi I am knitting Kits Kerchief and on line 1 of Chart B I am suppose to do a k1-yo-ktbl. When knitting in the round charts are always read from right to left. Thank you. Thank you! Im really confused. September 25, 2021 @ October 21, 2020 @ 10:59 am. I am knitting a sweater from Better Homes and Gardens found on Ravelry called Knitted Guernsey Pullover and Cap (http://www.bhg.com/crafts/knitting/kidswear/knitted-guernsey-pullover-and-cap/) with an 8-stitch repeating section in the chart. October 22, 2016 @ Hi, Ive got a chart that is worked flat. I called someone who let me know what I was doing incorrectly. 5:26 am. Hi. 12:16 pm. Im assuming its not a Tin Can Knits pattern, as the instructions dont sound familiar. I hope I phrased my question correctly, but Im pretty certain that you are expert enough to understand what Im trying to get at. December 15, 2016 @ Every designer uses different pattern writing language / style and conventions, so it depends. Hi Debbie It sounds like youve got it right, you are repeating the whole chart. So confused. On the back you would work left, center, right. Im shaping the armholes working on the front of the vest back and forth. -right-handed knitters are following charts from right-to-left, bottom-to top (starting at the right down corner of the chart); Hi, Im struggling with the WS instructions of a pattern, the RS are charted so fine with the these. alexaludeman Does that mean that I also knit the purl stitches that appear 1 row below? I dont get it. Ive cast on the stitches for my size (92), placed my marker and knitted one round. June 11, 2020 @ info@craftyarncouncil.com. January 17, 2017 @ Complete guide to knitting abbreviations: how to read knitting patterns Knit Chart Symbols | Welcome to the Craft Yarn Council March 29, 2018 @ Includes the basic stitches and may include some basic increases or decreases. How do I know for sure? July 6, 2020 @ I have a question about your chart above for the Gothic Lace. January 24, 2022 @ I have a question about shifting BOR in the Chrysanthemum pattern. Nancy Timm 11:12 am. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. February 8, 2018 @ I have checked in the instructions and the intro to the book that explains how to read the patterns and there doesnt seem to be anything there, alexaludeman Sabs Or do I increase elsewhere? Emily Wessel I am on round 3 of the lace chart and the pattern says to knit to the chart and knit next chart round. Does this mean that i have to knit together 2, e or even 5 stitches? March 30, 2015 @ June 6, 2014 @ 9:20 am. I tried to figure this out by looking at the chart for the Tenderheart and what happens between row 14 and 15 but I still cant work it out. Hi, I, too want to learn this pattern and I have found a fabulous video on YouTube that shows how to knit. In order of appearance top to bottom: (+)Edge stitch (not further specified) Knit Purl The circle is a yarn over Ssk K2tog I'm pretty sure this is a k3tog Big bullet points are garter stitch M1 (it specifies for a purl stitch, I don't remember which direction that is) Grey blocks don't mean anything (spacers) And small dot means bind off those stitches.