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1 chart square = 1 stitch on the needle unless otherwise directed
Stitches are either plain (knit or purl) or patterned, ('make 1, knit 2 together' etc.).
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To the right is a chart for a knitted square of garter stitch, 10 stitches wide by 10 rows high. When you knit from a chart you start at the bottom Right Hand (RH) corner and follow the row leftwards - just as you make stitches onto the RH needle. At the second row, you turn the knitting round in your hands and again work leftwards. With charted instructions it's different, you read this - and all even rows - from left to right.
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Point 2 - you must read a knitting chart in the correct way - start at the bottom right hand corner, work odd rows leftwards, work even rows rightwards - see red line.
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If you want a planned hole in the knitting - such as a button hole, you put increase stitches in a specific place and to compensate (meaning to keep the stitch count the same for that row) you cast off a matching number of stitches in that area - usually on that row (see diagram on the left).
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To make charts simpler, the knit dot symbols - known as plain stitches - are often omitted from the charts, but you still have to plain knit them - you know this because there is a knit dot symbol at the start and end of the row. To help count these plain stitches, there may be
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| numbers inside the Pattern Outline (the bold line coloured green here) that count the plain stitches, either from the start/end of the row or to/ between the pattern stitches (see diagram above). |
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