Hello,
I’m hoping someone can help me with a doctor who Christmas jumper pattern I’m trying to make. The pattern is knitted in the round, bottom up.
The thing confusing me is the beginning and end of the charts don’t seem to match up. The reindeer would look pretty odd. Am I missing something or being really dopey? 🫣 I’m relatively new to these kinds of charts. I hope someone can help. Thank you.
Welcome to the forum!
What is the name of your pattern and designer?
For whatever reason, the chart for the sleeves doesn’t fit the entire reindeer pattern. The designer chose not to modify the design at the begining of the sleeve but you could shift the reindeer closer to the rose motif to include more of them as shown in back and front chart.
Thank you for your reply.
The link to the pattern is here https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/dr-who-xmas-jumper.
I could try doing that. Knowing me I would make it look weird 
There’s the same problem on the front and back chart. Thank you again!
The front and back look ok to me especially since they are knit in the round. The reindeer on the sleeves are a bit odd but it is Dr. Who.
Have fun with this knit which should go fairly quickly. It’s one where you can’t wait to see what one more row adds to the motifs, and then one more and so on.
The snowflake doesn’t look quite right. You’re right, it’s doctor who, so it’s bound to be odd lol. I’ll see if I can fix it.
Yeah, I’m definitely looking forward to making this. It will be my first big project 
Mmm, you’re right the snowflake is going to be truncated on one side, both front and back.
Yeah, it’s strange. I’ll try and fix it some how. Thank you again! 
For the sleeve, I might try leaving the snowflake out, so there’s room for 2 whole reindeer? I’d print out some graph paper and make my own chart for that.
Hi ColoCro.
You’re right, I think that might be the best approach. I’ll see what I can do Thank you.
I agree the snowflake and reindeer are not very well thought out or charted correctly. What a shame.
If you can print out or photocopy the pattern you can modify the chart by just taping the correct snowflake on top of the main chart as it symmetrical the print version can be just turned upside down to make the correct half of flake.
I would redo to the lower sleeve, but I wouldn’t chart it out, just photocopy cut and stick. You could just ignore the reindeer, leave the snow fake, or take a copy of the front chart and use the reindeer off that to just stick on the chart in the right place. Another option would be to ignore the reindeer and flake and replace them with a tardis.
I’m currently working from 2 charts each made up of 3 or 4 or 5 copies of the original cut up and taped down, just make sure the grid aligns.
Sorry, I’ve only just seen this! That’s a good idea, I didn’t think of that. Thank you! I’m thinking of putting a doctor who logo on the sleeve instead of the reindeer and snowflake. I’m not sure yet.
Your reply was really helpful, thank you!
You’re welcome.
Hope it’s going well for you.
Yeah, it’s going ok thank you. I’m a slow knitter, so it might take a while lol. But I’m enjoying it, so it doesn’t bother me.
I’m planning on doing the sleeves top down, so where it says to cast off, do I put those stitches on scrap yarn instead of casting off and then do a provisional cast on for the 86 stitches at the top of the sleeve? I’ve never done it before, so I wanted to check. Thank you
Seaming the shoulders of the finished back and front then picking up sts around the armhole? So yes, you could put those bound off underarm sts on hold then knit with them as you pick up the other sts around the armhole.
The one caveat is that the knit sts will be upside down if you knit the sleeves shoulder to cuff. Instead of forming Vs up the sweater as in the front and back, they’ll form little tents or upside down Vs on the sleeves. Maybe unnoticeable to most.
That’s true! Maybe I’ll just knit it as written then. I was trying to avoid seaming, but guess I’ll have to 🫣
I think knitting the sleeves top to bottom would be fairly noticeable in colorwork, so it’ll be better knitted as written. Except for the charts–the stars on the yoke don’t line up either! Double points on one side, single on the other. I feel like there need to be five more columns there.
Yeah, that’s what I’ll do.
You’re right, the stars don’t line up. Thinking about fixing that is giving me anxiety 
I mean…they kind of do, but there are 6 columns missing from the left-hand star. What if you moved BOTH stars in toward the reindeer by 3 stitches each? You have a full star to go by on the sleeve. This is, of course, something the designer ought to have done.
I’m currently making a chart, because the sweater I’m working on has plain stockinette sleeves, and I’d rather they have the eyelet pattern that’s on the rest of the sweater. I printed out some graph paper and am going at it with a pencil.
Yeah, I’ll try and do that. I have some graph paper, so I’ll give it a go. Thank you!
How is your chart going?
