I’m making the Twisted Chain Link Fingerless Gloves. It’s the designer’s first pattern and she does not explain what the abbreviations are. I know the basics, but I’m having trouble with a few:
prt
On the chart:
LTPLT
RTPRT
I’m having trouble seeing what the last two abbreviations are on the chart. Can someone with better eye sight help me with that, too?
Thanks SO much!
Email her and ask for clarification. It’s Right Twist and Left Twist with a purl between so maybe —
LTPLT - left twist, p1, left twist
RTPRT - right twist, p1, right twist
Thanks, Sue. I emailed her and messaged her on Ravelry a couple days ago and have heard nothing back. Your explanations seem to make sense. Is a twist a twisted stitch or a cable?
It’s a mini cable. Here, I think this explains them - http://smariek.blogspot.com/2006/08/twist-to-left-twist-to-right.html
Thanks again, Sue. It took me a minute to find her explanation on the pattern page, but I found it. I’ve actually done it before; it was just explained differently!
Were you able to read the bottom two stitches on the chart key? I can’t see what it says!
I’m not good at reading charts, especially for cables. You could save the images, then zoom in with the reader, or print them out enlarged.
Yeah, I did that. It turned out too fuzzy to read, at least with my eyes!
Sorta looks to me like “K1, P1”, and “P1 K1”. Except that in the written instructions, just below the chart, it seems that you K2 on the wrong side and P2 on the right side?. . .that certainly looks more like it in the photo of the finished gloves. I have to say, you are far nicer than I am. I think writing a pattern and not giving the glossary, or at least a direct link to the glossary, plus the tiny font on the chart-- and I have a very large monitor screen-- is a unforgivable. :grrr:
I know, right?!? It’s too bad I really like the pattern or I would have given up! I was searching through my stitch pattern calendar to see if I could find the stitch pattern, but no luck.
Thanks for your help!
Do you have a good library near you? Or a Borders where you could at least stand there for 10 minutes and memorize?:shifty: Meaning, the Harmony books, or the Vogue Stichonaries, or Barbara Walker books may very well have it. 9 out of 10 times, designers are getting their stitch patterns out of those, and then design around them.
Rachel, you’re my kind of knitter! Our library doesn’t have a huge selection of knitting books, but I keep requesting new ones! I’ve been known to take a picture of the title page of a book at the bookstore and then requesting the book from the library. My budget doesn’t allow me to buy lots of books, but I figure my taxes pay for library books!:roflhard:
I don’t even try to memorize… I’ll write it out on scrap paper from my bag.
Good idea, Sue. Do you happen to have THIS pattern written down anywhere?
Nope. I’d rather do lace so don’t pay much attention to cable patterns.