1. Home
  2. Knitting and other yarn carfts
  3. problem with charts in "A Gathering of Lace"

problem with charts in "A Gathering of Lace"

Anyone able to chime in and tell me the answer to a rather simple question? I think I've got a handle on the difficult part of this project (grafting the edging to the shawl as it's worked), but here's the kicker: I can't figure out if I need to reverse the symbols on the edging's wrong side rows or not. Nothing in the book says whether I should or not. I'm ready to knit away on the edging, and would prefer one of the more complex patterns, but I can't figure this silly little thing out! Maybe I should explain a bit better: I've finished the body of the Spanish Peacock Shawl pictured on page 158. While the instructions say to use the Pointed Scallop edging from Barbara Abbey's Knitting Lace, I don't have access to the book and am not all that keen on ordering a book just for one edging pattern. So I decided to use a different edging. I liked the "Teal Edging" from page 80, but got frustrated with the above problem. I then tried the Beechleaf Edging on page 40, but guess what? SAME problem.

Basically, I'm asking what's probably a newbie question: When working lace patterns on two needles, does one reverse the symbols for the wrong side of the work?

Anastasia

Who would actually really like a copy of the original Pointed Scallop edging, but can't find it! *sigh*

Reply to
Teacher Gal
Loading thread data ...

Hi, I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for... or close... but it's all I could come up with. I hope it helps.

Gemini

Reply to
MRH

I appreciate the trouble, but it's not a crochet piece. I think this is something I'll just have to swatch up a few times to see how it goes before actually working it onto the shawl.

Thanks, though!

Anastasia

Reply to
Teacher Gal

Oh duh... you know while I was looking around I was thinking "It's knit" and if I'm not mistaken I even put that in the search engine. For some reason that doesn't always work though... as I found out a few times while searching for "two needle knit hats" and have gotten crocheted hats, in the round hats on circulars, and hats made on double pointed needles too. The search engines just generates what it wants to most times. :o/

Sorry that I couldn't help you!

Gemini

Reply to
MRH

I would think that when they mention "wrong-side" rows, the instructions for those rows would be written in the correct order for working them from the wrong side. However, if it's a chart, I think the standard system is to write the stitches as if they were being looked at from the right side, in case the knitter wants to knit the pattern in the round. (I hate charts and don't use them.)

Barbara Abbey's _Knitting Lace_ uses symbols but the instructions are written in rows and she refers to "wrong side" rows, so I think her instructions are already written to be worked that way.

=Tamar

Reply to
Richard Eney

I made a shawl from this book and I'm thinking that the wrong side rows seemed to be worked "purl across" and the right side rows followed the charts. I could be mistaken. I borrowed the book from the library so I don't have it in front of me. Does it say anything at all in the written instructions about how to handle the wrong side rows?

Jenn

Reply to
Jenn W.

On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 22:29:59 -0600, "Teacher Gal" spewed forth :

There is no problem. The Teal Edging is knitted flat, with all rows charted. This is applied edging, in that one finishes the main body, casts on a few stitches and works flat on those, doing a "2tog" with a live body stitch on the appropriate rows.

Again, there is no problem. All rows are charted, you're making applied edging worked flat and with "2tog" to join it to the live shawl stitches.

Read the even-numbered rows from R-L, read the odd-numbered rows from L-R.

+++++++++++++

Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET. This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%. Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account...

Reply to
Wooly

Once again, Wooly has NAILED it! Eggsacterly what I was 'thinking' but couldn't get into 'words' :D Noreen back into her hole.

Reply to
The YARNWRIGHT

I usually have no trouble reading charts; I prefer them when working lace. However, after swatching multiple repeats of the edgings in question, I think I've figured it out. When working left to right on wrong side rows, the symbols are NOT to be interpreted as "the opposite of the marked symbol." The Beech Leaf edging in particular is worked in such a way that every symbol should be interpreted as it is written. That was the problem I was having; I'm used to "reversing the symbol" on the wrong side rows.

Figured it out, though. Thanks for all the help!

Anastasia

Reply to
Teacher Gal

InspirePoint website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.