About Tracey Waller Expertise I can answer questions and offer advice about how to read hard to grasp patterns, how to fix things that may go a little wrong, how to cast on using provisional method, long tail, cable, etc. Any thing to do with knitting, eg, finishing, casting off, how to join pieces off and on the needles, binding off using three needles etc. I also use quite extensively, straight knitting looms and round looms, and would be happy help and offer assistance wherever i can...
Experience I picked up my first pair of knitting needles at the age of four years old and have not had a pair out of my hands since! hehe.. I spent endless hours watching my grandmother in a mirror while she knitted, as she was a left handed knitter! She was the most patient teacher, and taught me all the old fashioned methods.
I am a designer of knitwear and crochet, and am launching a brand new line of knitted baby/preemie pattern sets early February 2009 to incorporate into my already vast array of things that I do!
Education/Credentials Self taught for over 30 years... cold hard knitting and unpicking has been my only teacher!
My question relates to illusion knitting. I've never done it before, and I've also never followed charts before so I'm a little bit lost.
I want to knit the linux illusion scarf. The problem is - the full english translation of the pattern doesn't seem to have the charts with it. (They appear blank when I try to look at the website). So I am trying to do this using a combination of an english translation (without charts), and looking at the charts which are on a website in finnish!
I have two questions. Firstly, can you please confirm that when I start knitting the penguin, I start at the bottom right corner of the chart.
Secondly, when I start knitting the word 'Linux', it says to follow the chart from the top down. That seems very confusing to me because in the photo of the scarf, the 'L (in the word 'linux') is at the end of the scarf near the tassles. Why then would I start this at the top of this chart?
Because the word is back-to-front and upside down in the chart, I've no idea where to start the chart from. Can you please let me know if I start at the top left, top right, bottom left or bottom right of the chart?
Sorry if this is confusing.
Thanks in advance.
If you would be able to help me out with an answer, I'd be ever so grateful.
Answer Hiya Christina,
Thanks for your question - you are going to love me!!
it should take you directly to another site that I am a member of, with access to charts for your scarf. If it doesn't work, let me know and leave me your email address and I shall email you a copy of it as a .pdf file...
