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Knitting dyslexia
Feb. 17th, 2008 07:44 pmI think I might have a very mild touch of it.
I'm knitting up this stitch pattern:1
Those purl rows with decreases (the even numbered rows containing / and \ symbols) are hell. I keep misreading the slashes as leaning the wrong direction. Now I tend to have that problem with charts in general but most US/European patterns only do the complex stitches on the knit rows and just work plain on the purl rows (this excludes more advanced lace patterns) so it's not as bad. I just have to remember / is k2tog and \ is ssk and be sure to pause and look at the chart.
This chart though.... For the non-knitters, those even numbered rows? You read them backwards. So take someone that already has a bit of an issue with the / and \ thing and then make them read those rows backwards. The / is p2tog and the \ is ssp, that's simple, but when I'm reading the row backward my brain wants to flip the symbols. :(
If I ever make a sweater with this stitch pattern I'm doing as much as possible in the round to save myself a lot of frustration.
1. I re-charted this from a Japanese knitting stitch dictionary (250 Knitting Patterns) using this site. (The key isn't corrected for the through the back loop thing, I prefer to avoid twisting stitches, so read p2tog-b as ssp, etc.) Since I can't read kanji I can't tell you if the pattern has a name and I wasn't creative in naming it myself. Since this is one pattern out of 250 in a book intended for knit designers posting it here for reference and discussion should fall under fair use.
[Edit: ARGH! I just now noticed I left one row out and added one row in when I re-charted!! *head!desk* The chart shown here is the one with errors. Now I need to decide, rip out 43 rows of knitting (start over basically) or just chant "It's just a wash cloth" and finish with all the errors and just make another one with the correct chart later.... One day I will get this pattern knit up correctly!]
I'm knitting up this stitch pattern:1
Those purl rows with decreases (the even numbered rows containing / and \ symbols) are hell. I keep misreading the slashes as leaning the wrong direction. Now I tend to have that problem with charts in general but most US/European patterns only do the complex stitches on the knit rows and just work plain on the purl rows (this excludes more advanced lace patterns) so it's not as bad. I just have to remember / is k2tog and \ is ssk and be sure to pause and look at the chart. This chart though.... For the non-knitters, those even numbered rows? You read them backwards. So take someone that already has a bit of an issue with the / and \ thing and then make them read those rows backwards. The / is p2tog and the \ is ssp, that's simple, but when I'm reading the row backward my brain wants to flip the symbols. :(
If I ever make a sweater with this stitch pattern I'm doing as much as possible in the round to save myself a lot of frustration.
1. I re-charted this from a Japanese knitting stitch dictionary (250 Knitting Patterns) using this site. (The key isn't corrected for the through the back loop thing, I prefer to avoid twisting stitches, so read p2tog-b as ssp, etc.) Since I can't read kanji I can't tell you if the pattern has a name and I wasn't creative in naming it myself. Since this is one pattern out of 250 in a book intended for knit designers posting it here for reference and discussion should fall under fair use.
[Edit: ARGH! I just now noticed I left one row out and added one row in when I re-charted!! *head!desk* The chart shown here is the one with errors. Now I need to decide, rip out 43 rows of knitting (start over basically) or just chant "It's just a wash cloth" and finish with all the errors and just make another one with the correct chart later.... One day I will get this pattern knit up correctly!]
