Re: [lace] Manos lace weight yarn

2011-12-19 Thread Bob Ross
You can also use post it notes on a chart. Recently I bought myself a small magnetic board and made a long magnet from fridge magnets. I now use this for working charts. Unlike the stickies, it never needs replacing. Nita in Calgary on a warm and windy day On 18-Dec-11, at 2:31 PM, Cla

[lace] Knitting Charts

2011-12-19 Thread mary carey
Hi All, Thank you to all who sent replies to my query about lace knitting. I will make a compilation for Jeanette and it may be better if I send that to the one person who said knitting charts were a mystery to her. In Bobbin Lace I have an interest in doing a little Flanders and Milanese to go

[lace] Season's Greetings

2011-12-19 Thread Carolina de la Guardia
Hi all spiders, I have updated my page, and put on line some of the works made during the last years. http://www.carolgallego.com/lacebook.html Also some of the pieces made by my lacemakers in class: http://www.carolgallego.com/encajeras.html I would like to wish you a wonderful Christmas tim

[lace] Re: Manos Laceweight Yarn (Reading Charts & Lace Knitting Tips)

2011-12-19 Thread Susan Reishus
The simplest tips for readings charts are, that it is a map of your knitting.  You go the direction you are knitting, which is typically bottom to top and beginning right to left.  Often return (purl or knit) rows are not on charts so left out (which you can tell by numbered rows on the chart, or c