Charting 105, Knit Visualizer Style
November 11th, 2005 at 11:15 pm (uncategorized)
Kim over at her string or nothing blog, has written up some amazing lessons on learning how to create charts from knitting patterns. I highly recommend you check them out starting here with Charting 101. I was curious how Knit Visualizer would handle the same task in Charting 105, as this is exactly what I wrote it to deal with. So, I started it up, and plugged in the Porcupine Stitch pattern.
Here’s my result:
One difference between my chart here and Kim’s is that the program isn’t quite finished yet (but it’s really really close for those of you who are anxiously waiting it’s release), and doesn’t always know what the fancier decreases should be on the wrong sides. 2 seconds later and I had those manually fixed. (I’m working on getting all those silly things finished up.I need to go through my stitch dictionary and confirm descriptions, instructions and wrong side versions of each stitch).
marta said,
November 16th, 2005 at 8:02 am
you are so awesome! In so many ways. thanks.
Three weeks and counting… then I can’t wait to dig into knit visualizer!
kbsalazar said,
November 17th, 2005 at 5:06 pm
Ultimo cool! I’m watching for a release date, and hoping that the price point is lower than Visio. :)
Seriously, the hard part wasn’t figuring out the symbols. It was figuring out the right-side/wrong-side implementations of each. Without the Sainted Barbara and the compendium at the beginning of Walker III and IV, I’d be up a permanent creek. Best wishes for success with KV - k.