Ariel's craft journal ([info]dragoncrafter) wrote in [info]advanced_knit,
2005-05-03 16:42:00

Tree Chart

(edit) I have made myself a knitting symbol font, and it is fixed width, and it allows for increases in the middle of cable crossings, and it makes "knit" and "purl" look very very different.

And so I have charted out the branches of my tree using my font. (The previous version used the Aire River Design font.) (There are some minor differences between the tree in the picture and this chart. Specifically, the leaves are bigger and more spaced apart, which means that there are fewer of them, and I've moved it up a little.)

The key to these charts is here. Let me know if it is unclear (or if I made any mistakes writing it down.)

This tree is worked as a rectangular panel. Allow 61 stitches for it. (Increases and decreases will happen; however, you need 61 stitches going in and will have 61 stitches coming out.)

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This is an alternative version of the last few rows, that you can use if you're also putting your tree on a Rogue. The numbers indicate the row number of Chart B of Rogue that it should be replacing. (So just after finishing this part, you would work the row of Rogue containing Row 25 of Chart B.)







It's in three pieces because, frankly, it looks like a mess if it isn't.

Note that these are half-charts. So you start at the right edge and work from right to left. Then you work back from left to right, starting at the red bar, if a red bar exists.


Edit: Oh, right! Roots!
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This is where I have the biggest modifications from what I did before. Specifically, I made all the roots twice as thick so they didn't look titchy next to the branches.

More edit: Minor errors have been corrected in the "roots" section and in the third (bottom) tree section.

The trunk is just a three-stitch knit rib all the way up. (In other words, repeat Row 23 of the roots chart as many times as you want; I used about thirty rows.)

Edit: I am a very tight knitter. I get better results by working yarn overs and then knitting them the next row through the back loop. Most people get better results by just skipping the yarn overs and doing twisted make-1 increases the next row. I have edited the charts accordingly.

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[info]kathrynt

May 3 2005, 22:09:54 UTC 7 years ago

Thank you so VERY very much.

[info]dragoncrafter

May 3 2005, 22:13:09 UTC 7 years ago

You're welcome.

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[info]opheliaspins

May 3 2005, 22:23:56 UTC 7 years ago

You are amazing! Thanks a bunch, I'll definetly be saving this one for a special project in the future.

[info]coraline

May 3 2005, 22:25:26 UTC 7 years ago

thank you!!!

[info]irihs

May 3 2005, 22:28:23 UTC 7 years ago

awesome - thanks so much!

[info]piemancer

May 3 2005, 23:34:20 UTC 7 years ago

Dreamy. You shoulda seen me gawp when you posted that sweater. Holy cow. It's very inspiring.

[info]knitress

May 4 2005, 02:07:27 UTC 7 years ago

Thanks deeply!

[info]lackofsatin

May 4 2005, 05:09:24 UTC 7 years ago

You darling girl.

[info]geekling

May 4 2005, 09:02:02 UTC 7 years ago

snot fairy!!11!!ONE1!!!!

Oh wow!

And *thwap* I guess this is what you hid from me with that arachnaphobic warning. NO FAIR! hiding beauties like this. I thought you had piccies of horrible spiders crawling around in your knitting or summat, so avoided it as per the warning.

[info]dragoncrafter

May 4 2005, 13:03:42 UTC 7 years ago

Re: snot fairy!!11!!ONE1!!!!

I did have *two* cuts...I'm sorry if you were misled, though.

[info]ivete

May 4 2005, 12:51:57 UTC 7 years ago

cool, thank you! I started charting it in excel but it takes so long I had to stop for a while .. . now I don't have to. Thank you! You're so talented, I love this tree.

[info]cassandrasimplx

May 5 2005, 00:50:40 UTC 7 years ago

Thanksx10^1000!

I'm going to make me one, and I'm going to wear it to my weekly gaming session, and I'm going to stick out my tongue smugly at all the big burleemen who've been snickering at me for knitting during games these past two years. Heh.

Anonymous

October 22 2005, 15:39:35 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you f

I just purchased the sweater pattern and wanted to thank you for the site info. I would love to have a graft of the spider to put on it as well??? do you have one?

[info]dragoncrafter

October 22 2005, 16:38:59 UTC 6 years ago

Re: Thank you f

The spider comes from Barbara Walker's "Charted Knitting Designs." To my knowledge, the pattern is not available online, but it's reasonably likely that your library has a copy.

Anonymous

November 23 2005, 07:39:55 UTC 6 years ago

Pattern instructions

Not to be a total p.i.t.a., but you don't happen to have the tree pattern written out, do you? If so, could you please post it or email it to me? Thanks so much! If not, please ignore!

Thanks again!
tkhalliday@gmail.com

Anonymous

November 25 2005, 09:01:56 UTC 6 years ago

wow.

Thank you so much for posting this. Your sweater is beautiful. What incredible talent you have!

Cate

skymosher.blogspot.com

[info]daughter_moon

June 10 2006, 20:04:40 UTC 5 years ago

Wow. I think I've found my summer project.
Like the two above, I'd really appreciate the text version if you have one. I'm a bit rubbish with charts.
dragonitexpress@hotmail.com

[info]dragoncrafter

June 11 2006, 19:40:53 UTC 5 years ago

There is no text version. This is because I am certain that if I tried to make one, I would make mistakes, and they would be very hard to fix. Also because it would be huge, long, and complicated.

Charts aren't that bad, really!

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[info]lovesloth

October 5 2008, 16:44:33 UTC 3 years ago

a few questions

I really appreciate you creating this chart! I'm trying to use it on a baby blanket that I'm making for a newborn (my friend Jen's new daughter, Rowan!). I'm new to charts, though, so I have a few questions....

(1) In looking at your key, it appears that most of the stitches surrounding the "tree" are purls, but in looking at the photo of the finished item, this does not seem to be the case. Am I misreading something?

(2) I looked up "no stitch" and read that I should just ignore those spaces, but I also read that they represent a spot where there "used to be a stitch" that was "decreased away." Do i need to decrease in those spots before starting the pattern?

Thank you again for sharing! I'm really excited about this project!

[info]dragoncrafter

October 5 2008, 21:13:52 UTC 3 years ago

Re: a few questions

(1): Most of the background should be purl (reverse stockinette). There's some other stuff going on on the sweater, but if you're putting it on a blanket, that shouldn't matter to you.

(2): No. Just ignore those squares.

[info]rikkilee

November 8 2008, 04:03:28 UTC 3 years ago

hello there. :]
I am expecting a baby in April, so I am knitting a baby blanket at the moment, and your lovely tree will be the center of it.
this is my first "out of the ordinary" project and I am very excited about it.
but I do have one quick question...

I have just finished the roots section and I am in my first few rows of the trunk, and the trunk just isn't popping out like it seems to in your photographs.

I'm knitting 3 stitches on a background of purls like I think I am supposed to be doing... it just looks different to me.

but this could be something I'm looking too much into and in the bigger picture i won't notice it. but i figured Id ask.

[info]dragoncrafter

November 8 2008, 15:32:04 UTC 3 years ago

From your description, I'm not sure what could be happening. Do the roots pop out as they should? Can you post a picture somewhere?

Note that on my sweater, the trunk doesn't pop out very much—no more than, in fact less than, the root cables. It looks dramatic because it's in bright side lighting. So the trunk should be clearly visible, but not actually all that dramatic.

[info]rikkilee

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Anonymous

January 22 2009, 00:03:49 UTC 3 years ago

Thank you so much for this!

Jacquelyn

Anonymous

December 28 2009, 07:16:00 UTC 2 years ago

reading the chart

Hi,
This is such a beautiful design!
I feel like a complete moron, but I'm just not "getting" the half chart part. I plan on knitting this flat for a wall hanging.....so you start like normal with say, row 1, knitting right to left, then am I to stay in row 1 and knit back to the beginning of the row? skipping that first stitch on the way back? then on row 2 which on charts I've knit flat would be the wrong side, starting left to right and then back again? does this make sense what I'm trying to ask you?
any help would be greatly appreciated!
thanks,
Heather

[info]dragoncrafter

December 28 2009, 16:31:23 UTC 2 years ago

Re: reading the chart

With a half-chart, on every row, you work the half-chart twice, first right to left, then left to right.

So the first row is: purl 26, yarn over, purl 5, then purl 4, yarn over, purl 26. That completes the first row; now you turn the work and work the second row, which goes knit 12, yarn over, knit 14, twisted stitch, yarn over, knit 5, then knit 4, yarn over, twisted stitch, knit 14, yarn over, knit 12.

If it still makes no sense, save the chart pieces. Make two copies of the chart and flip one of them (most image manipulation software can do this). Print out one normal copy and one mirrored copy, trim them, and tape them together with the center stitch overlapping. This should give you a chart that looks a little bit more like what you're used to.

[info]creatrlvr

March 14 2010, 22:28:49 UTC 2 years ago

Reading chart

Hi,
I am knitting this for a baby blanket and I have to say I have never done cable work on the wrong side before. Exactly how is that going to work? I have always just purled the purled and knit the knits on the wrong side. Thank you so much for your wonderful design!
Sincerely,
Beth

[info]dragoncrafter

March 14 2010, 23:50:40 UTC 2 years ago

Re: Reading chart

If you go to the chart key, you'll see that each symbol has four different definitions. You follow whichever set of definitions are appropriate for the row you're working on.

[info]creatrlvr

March 17 2010, 10:53:50 UTC 2 years ago

RE:YO's

Hi~
I just cannot wrap my brain around the yarn overs. My plan was do just ignore them and do the bar increase. I am not understanding the twist part. Do you want the stitches to look normal or lean to left/right. Is it necessary that they lean or could I just do a bar increase and leave it at that? Thank you for your patience!!
Sincerely,
Beth

[info]dragoncrafter

March 20 2010, 17:07:28 UTC 2 years ago

Re: YO's

You can skip the yarn overs and just do a raised increase instead of a twisted stitch. I'm not sure quite what you mean by "bar increase". Substituting increases should be fine; I've picked out the ones that I think look the best, but you can probably use others if you want.

Just be careful: some increases turn zero stitches into one, while others turn one stitch into two, so if you use (say) a knit front & back increase, then you will have to let it replace two chart stitches instead of one.

[info]eli_the_dragon

July 13 2010, 15:47:40 UTC 1 year ago

Wow, That tree is spectacular! Hope you don't mind me borrowing it, too.

Anonymous

July 29 2010, 08:03:32 UTC 1 year ago

Wow, for me, this is going to be a hugh challenge with lots of twists and turns. I will probably be tearing out stitches (hopefully not my hair). Either way, it promises to be an exciting adventure & a great learning experience :) Thank you very much.

Anonymous

October 10 2010, 18:28:37 UTC 1 year ago

Thank you!

I have been looking for a gorgeous tree pattern for a project and this is perfect! Thank you for sharing. It's by far the prettiest cabled tree that I've found.

[info]dragoncrafter

October 10 2010, 23:36:28 UTC 1 year ago

Re: Thank you!

You're welcome.

If you have any questions (this is a difficult pattern), leave a comment here and I'll try to answer.

[info]bethanthemum.blogspot.com

February 23 2011, 17:30:11 UTC 1 year ago

I would like to add your tree pattern to a simple Zimmerman sweater, knit in the round. Looking at your chart (which I understand is a half-chart), it appears that the tree is 86 sts across. Am I reading the chart correctly? Or should I ignore those "blank" spaces and instead count 64 sts across entire pattern? I need to know the total sts count so that I can center this on my sweater.

Thanks in advance for your help (and for posting such an amazing pattern)!

[info]dragoncrafter

February 23 2011, 17:35:44 UTC 1 year ago

It's 61 stitches across. You do ignore the blank spaces (they're places on the chart where increases are going to happen), the YO in the first row doesn't take up any stitches, and the leftmost (center) stitch is repeated once, not twice.

Anonymous

February 24 2012, 05:43:21 UTC 2 months ago

can this pattern be purchased...if it can where can I get it....

[info]dragoncrafter

February 24 2012, 13:54:11 UTC 2 months ago

What do you mean by "this pattern"?

The pattern for the tree IS the chart. What you see up there is all I have. You should be able to knit the tree from that.

Anonymous

2 months ago

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