I’d like to create a chart for the instructions of a lovely shawl pattern I purchased on Ravelry (the On Off shawl by Larissa Brown), because I’d love to create different versions of this shawl and I think charting it would help me customize the pattern. I’m using Stitch Fiddle. The original pattern is not charted. It’s quite simple, yet beautiful and practical. However, I’m not sure how to account for and represent the increases every other row on the chart, as they happen mi-row. Would anyone have experience with that? Any online resources I could consult to understand how to create charts out of written instructions? I did a quick Google search of course but couldn’t find any obvious answer.
This is very adventurous of you but it should be very helpful with other charted patterns.
You’ll need to hold space using the “no stitch” box. It’s illustrated here for a pattern with increases at the edges but you can either shift the frame of the chart so that the increases show at the edge or use a greyed out triangle at the center that slopes up to the end of the increases.
Thank you @salmonmac! That’s very helpful - THAT’s what “no stitch” means. I realize now that charting these instructions will be more complex than anticipated, but I’ll give it a try. The two examples given in the tutorial (chart with “no stitch” boxes, chart without) are helpful to understand the logic.
