The Family Pattern Success

I finally managed to get the Johnstone tartan and the Campbell tartan onto an Excel spreadsheet for a pattern to knit. I admit that it was frustrating and I did want to leave the project alone but I finally got it finished on Thursday.

 part of the Campbell tartan

 Johnstone tartan

 This is my chart for the Campbell tartan. It looks funny with the colors I used but I know what the colors on my chart stand for.

The Johnstone tartan chart. I found one that had 4 black lines and used that one for my chart.

I hope to make an afghan or two or three (one of each and then one with both) but I'll be keeping it simple and knit the squares individually and sew it all together in the end.

Chart Patterns

Chart patterns I thought were difficult to do because charts just don't tell you instructions by letters. I've learn recently that charts when knitting can be very useful. So I began to play around with some graph paper and doodle some designs out. Much time, erasing, and crumpled up papers later...I found Excel to be a better choice  when designing patterns. I've made quite a few patterns since I learned how to read charts. Now I'm working on making my family tartans (from both sides of my family) into patterns in Excel so I can knit it. It will take much of my time because the tartans are complex but I think I can mange it somehow.


Happy Knitting!