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When stitches might look the same I color code (lemmy.nz)
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Sometimes a pattern is hard to read at a glance when you are in the middle of juggling five needles while knitting in the round.

So I color code it.

This will be for a pair of socks.

The pattern comes from the Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible. If you haven't heard of it before you should definitely check it out. Super dense, it uses about 130 different stitches and hundreds of patterns. This pattern is one of the easy ones.

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[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Oh ha ha, I have that book and leaf through it now and then. I've never tried any of the patterns. Kudos to Japanese knitters though.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Whenever I'm looking for inspiration to fill something in, I grab that book. It makes every project three times longer, but the results are so much more worth it.

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Kudos to you too! Colouring the chart is genius.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

For added points, you can make it the lock screen of your cell phone so you don't have to actually unlock your phone if you're using it as your pattern.