If you missed the first part of Shadow or Illusion knitting, you’ll want to scroll down the page and read that post before jumping into this one, or you’ll be a little confused. In the last post we talked about what Illusion Knitting was and how you create the effect of stripes and a graphic in your knitting when viewed at different angles. Today we’re actually going to chart the graphic of the Olympic rings that we were looking at.
In actuality, it’s already charted. What we need to do now is clean up the chart (fix and stray pixels that may be lying around) and expand it t prepare for converting it to a knitting chart. Even though this sounds complicated, don’t worry. It’s not very hard and there will only be three symbols on the chart – a blank space, a dot, and a color.
The blank space means that you knit that square when you’re on the right side(odd # rows) and purl it when you’re on the wrong side(even # rows).
The dot will mean that you purl the stitch on that square when you’re on the right side and knit it when you’re on the wrong side.
The white spaces (stitches) are done in the background color and the grey ones are done in the pattern color.
A quick refresher on reading charts – start at the bottom right hand square and go from right to left. When you get to the end of that row, go up one square (next row) and go from left to right. You always read wrong (even #) side rows from left to right and right (odd #) side rows from right to left.
When working stripes with the 2 colors, don’t cut your yarn at the end of the row, just carry it up along the side. To do this just drop it when you get to the end of the row and pick up the next color. Loop the new color under the color you just dropped so it holds it up for you.
Pretty simple, right? Okay. Here’s a chart for the first ring and a bit …
This may look like a jumble of dots, but if you choose 2 contrasting colors of yarn and try working it, I promise you’ll see something really cool. You might want to add a few stitches on either side for a border. Garter stitch works really well as it will help keep the work flat. Good luck!
Hugzzz 😎
