Drawing assymetrical and oversize garments on a charting device

These sketches were done as a result of a question by donnydl on the Ravelry group - thought they might be useful here for reference.

If you have a garment that is too wide you mirror the missing bit on the edge of the paper - "fold" the garment drawing in a definite place eg 60 so that the extra bit is easy to work out. Of course, make sure you have enough needles too! See picture below, the missing bit is hatched in the second picture.



If you are knitting an assymetrical garment and do not have a wide enough sheet, you can mirror that line about zero. This is a rough sketch of a ballet wrap top - the front neckline is in red, the sleeve is in blue:

Works in progress

The awful skirt. The Cog declared it looks like the kind of skirt a nurse would have worn, turn of the century...

Rather blurry shot of the Kauni. Hope that the 2-colour rib will stop curling eventually.

Anonymous, this was my first attempt at a lace stole. It's a 1ply of some sort, knitted at T6 on the SK840 using a basic tuck card. A yarn I could never use for much else, because it's so badly spun, it twists on itself (and into other yarns, as I discovered when I tried to use it for dbj on the Passap). Now, my question is - how to stop the sides from curling. Any ideas?

Found this site by accident - alas, it seems to be down this morning. Tons of hand-knitted stitch patterns, with decent colour photographs.

Yolanda Gypsy came to the Cov Knit Wits last night, and showed us how to spin with a drop spindle. Lovely to see her again after so long, and I got the impression Julie enjoyed the class. I refrained - I've done it before, and anyway I have too many gadgets as it is! Lovely to see Yolanda again, anyway - she's looking dead glam and v happy.

In progress this week...

James C Brett Marble chunky - back made last night


Hot pink/magenta scarf - frogged and reknitted as a 2x2 rib. Just thinking about making a matching hat with the leftovers.


Current mood: happy

Inspirations from M&S

Really liked this cardigan, but it made me look like a lampshade. Bad cardigan! Might try and see if I can make something similar - it would need to be in a fine, drapey yarn.


Love this too - you can't tell from the pic, but it is in a rose yarn that changes colour, and the fronts are knitted on the bias. I am going to attempt to make something similar, with the James C Brett Marble Chunky I fell for last year. I love my knitleader!

Both of these are from Marks and Spencers. I do like their Per Una range, and having lost nearly a stone this year my mind is lusting after clothes - I've been on a clothes diet. What's the point in buying large clothes if you are trying to shrink. Heck, I should use that as my diet inspiration - lose weight, treat myself!

In other news, I successfully shortened the sleeves of the Lizard Ridge jumper. Now, if I could just fix the hem from curling..... and give it a shave. Have to get one of those jumper-shaving things, have seen them in Hobbycraft...

FO: Hot pink hoodie

Colour hasn't come out brilliantly in this shot, but then it was taken with my mobile phone (ie without flash). Just need to pick up some buttons tonight, and it's done!