In my last post, I mentioned that I had flipped the lace patterning for my second sock. This is an explanation of the way that I did it. It seemed pretty intuitive to me, and I hope that some of you find it helpful.
First of all, start off with a chart. The lace pattern for the Child's First Sock was written out, but I charted it because I find it easier to read and understand. The chart below is NOT the Child's First Sock lace pattern, but it's an easier lace pattern that is fairly similar.
You just take this chart, and reverse it. There are a few ways to do this. The easiest is to use a image program (such as Microsoft Paint) to flip it horizontally. Or can flip your paper chart over and trace it on the back of the paper. When the chart is reversed, most of the stitches remain the same. The exception on this chart is that the SSK, "\", is flipped over to become a K2tog, "/".
This new chart will be a reverse of the original lace pattern. Here is an example of the above lace pattern I made. It's two repeats wide and two repeats long.
That's all there is to it!
A great tutorial! Thank you for sharing, you're helping my brain think better of knitting :) I'm inspired!
Posted by: Carol | August 19, 2007 at 03:12 PM
Thanks for the great tutorial. Very neat.
Posted by: kim | August 19, 2007 at 03:44 PM
Very informative! Thanks for taking the time!
Posted by: Tanya | August 19, 2007 at 05:01 PM
Thank you. :)
Posted by: Nora | August 19, 2007 at 06:32 PM
So very simple, utterly logical. Thanks for explaining it to us lazy knitters.
Posted by: Liz K. | August 19, 2007 at 09:56 PM
:) brilliant!
Posted by: stacey | August 20, 2007 at 09:20 AM
Very cool - particularly that you took the time to knit up the example for us chart-challenged types!
Posted by: Ariel | August 20, 2007 at 12:45 PM
Brilliant!
Posted by: Jean | August 20, 2007 at 02:51 PM
I don't suppose this also works for changing toe-up to top-down?... I have lost sleep wondering about that. ;-) I suspect it's more complicated...
Posted by: Beth S. | August 20, 2007 at 03:46 PM
Excellent tutorial! I intuitively understood the whole flipping thing, but I am not a visual person, so I often have to go through a few trials when doing the actual thing I understood intuitively. Therefore, it's nice to see an example done; it cuts down on the trials.
Posted by: Brenda | August 20, 2007 at 11:29 PM
That is so smart.
Duhhhh I had never thought of that.
Posted by: Danielle | August 21, 2007 at 02:05 AM
How helpful is that?! Thanks Kristy! It's so logical, yet it would have never occurred to me to actually do it. Yes, lazy knitter indeed.
Posted by: nova | August 21, 2007 at 10:39 AM
Very cool! Thanks!
Posted by: tiennie | August 22, 2007 at 01:03 AM
Love it! Alas, I have a more complicated question: how does a more complicated stitch, like Slip 2, Knit 1, Pass two slipped stitches over translate in reversal? Or Yarn-over twice, then on next row Purl 1, Knit 1 into the two yarn-overs?
Posted by: Allison Henle | August 23, 2007 at 10:26 AM
Hmm, the first one slip 2, k1, psso should look the same either direction, so
I don't think that needs to be translated.
The other one, I would guess, you
would k1, p1 on the next row, but I'd have to knit up a swatch to know for
sure.
Any thoughts?
Posted by: Kristy | August 24, 2007 at 04:32 PM