Friday, August 14, 2009

My First Chart

I printed off some knitter's graph paper and have been playing around with some charting for a mitten pattern of my own design.

This will be the back of the hand:



I plan to do the palm in alternating vertical rows of color. Right now I can't decide if I want to do black mittens with the pattern in red . . .

OR

red mittens with the pattern in white......

What do you think??

Here's the pattern for the wrist area:



I will likely use the Latvian 2-color cast on and do a fringed edge with a braided band above it before beginning the wrist pattern. If I don't think the wrist is long enough, I can add another braid before starting the main heart pattern.

Not sure who the receipient will be. It will be fun to see how it looks knit up. I may find I have to adjust the chart. We'll see. It's kind of cool though!

2 comments:

McVal said...

Oh wow! That's very creative! I don't even know what colors would be good together! What are the school colors where Amanda will be going?

BTW: I'm feeling much better now. Ryan and I are headed for Des Moines this morning for the final State Fair event. We'll have plenty of time to talk on the way and he stopped by yesterday.

Bethany (yarnorgy) said...

Congrats on your new pattern! What a great accomplichment! :D