Hello! This is my first time knitting from a chart, and I’m confused. I don’t know where to start, and it seems like the stitches aren’t adding up, but I’m probably just reading it incorrectly.
You can find the pattern for free here: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/chevalier-mittens.
The first half of the pattern is in Finnish, but if you go down a few pages, it has an English translation.
First time using a chart
Well, I figurd out why the stitches didn’t seem to be adding up. I was slipping a stitch instead of reading it as no stitch. I think I’ve got it now!
These are lovely mittens and I’ve thought I would like to do them sometime. I went and looked at the pattern and came back and refreshed the page to see if anyone had already helped you and I see you think you have it figured out now. This is not the easiest pattern for a first try at charts. I hope you have made mittens before at least, that should help.
Yes, there are 44 stitches represented by both charts and you use both to begin. I don’t know if it matters if you start with the chart on the left or the right. The one is the palm and doesn’t show it after the shaping you do until it gets up near the top, then it picks up again. You would work each chart from left to right on every round since you are working in the round. They explain the symbols down below.
Good luck on these. They will be beautiful.
Yes, for ‘no stitch’ you just skip that box and do whatever’s in the next square on the stitch.
So, I figured out the “no stitch” bit, but I got to the cabling part and I did it backwards somehow, so instead of the cables making a chevron, they branched outwards, and I had to start over. I thought I was following the chart and cabling left when I should cable left, and cabling right when I should cable right.
I started on the left hand side of the left chart, and when I got to the first cabling part, I cabled to the right, and cabled to the left on the other side, so I don’t know why it turned out the opposite. When I’m working in the round, should I do the opposite of what I would do when working flat?
When you work in the round you always start at the right side, for all rows. If you started at the left side, that’s why all your cable turned out backwards.
:oops: When I said I didn’t know if it mattered if you started on the chart on the left or the right I didn’t mean to read the charts either right to left or left to right. :lol: I know better than that. But there are two charts, one for the palm and one for the back of the mitten. I don’t know if it matters which of those you work first. But which ever you do first you read the chart right to left on every row.
When I’m working in the round, should I do the opposite of what I would do when working flat?
Sometimes this is kind of true. But not in this case. If you are using a chart that is written to be worked flat and you are working in the round there may be instances when you need to change something (I think. I know this is true with directions written in words anyway.). But the chart for this mitten is written to be worked in the round and you won’t change anything, just work it exactly as given and reading all rows right to left.
If you are using a chart that is written to be worked flat and you are working in the round there may be instances when you need to change something
That’s one of the advantages to charts - you work every row as written, you just read all of them right to left if working in the round, or the WS rows are read left to right if working flat. So you don’t have to change anything except the direction you read it.
Ok, thanks ladies!