By Greetings Seasons of Lace Folk!
You know that shawl I’ve been whining about — the one for which I ripped back about 50 rows recently? Yeah, that one. It is my plan to publish the design (hence the ripping back to make sure the model I’m knitting is totally correct so the photos don’t lie).
I have a wonderful (stress that — wonderful) and very patient test knitter . She and I disagree about which of two chart options is easier to follow. I’m okay with being wrong here… but I want to be sure to use whichever approach is easiest for more knitters to follow. Whether I can follow my own chart is not the issue (okay, it was earlier, but that’s a different side of the question). Whether you can follow my charts is much more important to me.
So, I’m intruding on this glorious lace-fest to ask you — a bunch of intrepid lace knitters of deliciously varying skill and experience levels — an enormous favor. HUGE. I feel guilty even doing this here. But.. I want to make this work for as many folks as I can. So.
Would you please glance at the two charts below, and see which is easier for you to follow? They’re very very similar. In fact, the only difference is where I put the yo’s that appear on stitch 4, and 4 from the end, on every right side row.
The chart represents a piece in which each right side row starts: “sli1, k2, yo” and then goes on with various lace related activities, until it ends “yo, k3″, and each wrong side row starts “sl1, k2, p1″ and continues, mostly purling across, and ending with “p1, k3″.
Which of these two charts is easier for you to follow (clickety biggety)*:
Chart A
or Chart B
Yes, they’re very similar. The difference lies in the edges.
So, which do you prefer? A or B???
*Clickety Biggety works for me, using Firefox. It did not work for one of my regular blog readers. It OUGHT to work here…)
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Since that YO seems to be part of an “edging”, I’d rather see it *with* the edging. But, I found myself staring at the symbols trying to decifer what was what…and no row numbers? hmmm….
Um, chart A seems clearer at first glance. I could work off of both, I think. And don’t forget row numbers! (It’s entirely possible that there are row numbers and since I can’t make the picture bigger I can’t see them).
I would suggest doing wrong side row numbers in a different color than right size. VLT does this and it makes the chart much easier to read.