Reverse shaping

Dear friends,

Knitting the kangaroo pattern found in Toys to Kniy, by Tracy Chapman.
Body, side. 61, 62
To make 2nd piece it says to reverse all shaping. Please explain and give me an example of what what this means.
Thank you.
Best
Peggycoldfoot

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/kangaroo-and-baby-roo

Reversing the shaping creates a mirror image of the piece. It’s similar to knitting the two fronts of a cardigan. For example, bind offs that occur at the beginning of a RS row on one piece would occur at the beginning of a WS row on the mirror image. Decreases worked at the end of a row to shape one piece would be worked at the beginning of a row to shape the mirror image.

It may be easier to explain if you give us a row or two of the shaping which should be reversed. Don’t give us more than that due to designer copyright.

There are numerous complaints about errors in this pattern. This project corrects at least some of them and may be helpful.
https://www.ravelry.com/projects/sjanova/kangaroo-and-baby-roo

Ok. I will pick a few lines and email soon

K to last stitch, Inc at end of row.

Inc 1 stitch at beginning of row, P to end.

What does it mean when it says this?

Work 15 rows in stockinette stitch without shaping

K to last stitch, Inc at end of row. The reverse could be Inc at the beginning of the row, k to the end of row.

Inc 1 stitch at beginning of row, P to end. P to the end of row, inc one stitch

Work 15 rows in stockinette stitch without shaping That means to work 15 rows total, alternating a knit row with a purl row (that’s stockinette stitch). There won’t be any increases or decreases on these 15 rows.

Thank you very much for explaining.

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Dear friends,

I am going to try to do some color knitting using charts. I want to get large print graph chart paper so I am not straining my eyes.

Please guide me as I don’t understand what the ratio numbers mean on paper I see on Amazon. Thank you.

Best,

Peggy Cold foot

If you are using a printed pattern you can also take the chart to a store like Staples and they can enlarge and print out the chart from the pattern without the need to re-chart it.
Knitter’s graph paper has cells that are wider than they are tall so the rectangles in the paper help the designer chart the motif and calculte stitch number.
If you’re not designing a pattern you can just use regular graph paper which has squares rather than rectangles. The design may look a little skewed but all you care about is the stitch number for a given color.
Are you using a printed pattern or designing your own?

Thank you so much. You always explain things in a way that I can understand.

I was going to use a motif from a book. I suppose the best idea would be to enlarge it at Staples. It may be too complicated to re do on a separate piece of graph paper. Is knitting graph paper different than regular graph paper?

Thank you

Here are some of my finished projects.

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Your projects are just perfect and just right for the season. Thanks so much for letting us have a look at them!

Re: knitting graph paper, this site shows the difference.

https://www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/pro-tip-knitting-graph-paper/

Rather than square cells the knitter’s graph paper has rectangular cells.

Hello
Of you have the motif already charted in a book, and if it is anything more than an extremely simple motif, then I really recommend photocopy enlargement rather than try to regrade it yourself. I’m not saying you aren’t able, but it is really tricky to copy charts correctly, also laborious when you want to knit.
Maybe you know someone with a combined printer/photocopier? My printer photocopies and can enlarge which is fab.

Thank you everyone. Always so helpful. So happy I found this Kntting Forum.

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