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From: David (February 23^rd, 2009, 1:04 pm)

http://www.innaz.com/cgi-bin/makechart/makechart.cgi?source=cableb%288%29&row_numbering=all&row_vs_round=row

this chart creator allows the user to determine the number of stitches for cables... would that be possible?

Thank you so much for this!

it's the perfect chart creator on the internet!!!

Reply from: functionalknits (February 23^rd, 2009, 3:57 pm)

Hi David - currently there are just the 6 preset cables (although I plan to add more), but you can use the custom stitches for other cables, and set them to whatever width you like.

From: Jan (February 23^rd, 2009, 2:45 pm)

Just want to say this is super cool! Thanks for sharing your genius with the public!

Jan

Reply from: functionalknits (February 23^rd, 2009, 4:02 pm)

You're welcome Jan, I'm glad that you like it!

From: Terri (luckycharm on Rav) (February 23^rd, 2009, 6:03 pm)

What a beautiful job! You have created a great tool, great instructions, great all-around site - simple, precise, and to the point. Thanks so much. I know I'll be using this tool many times.

From: Mary Anderson (March 2^nd, 2009, 2:02 pm)

You are wonderful! Your chart generator is very simple and straightforward, and really makes it easy to translate a written pattern to a chart. I'm new to chart-knitting, but am already addicted. Thanks for sharing!

Reply from: functionalknits (March 3^rd, 2009, 12:33 pm)

Thanks Mary! I'm fairly new to chart knitting as well, but I find it easier than reading written instructions.

From: Andey (March 6^th, 2009, 8:42 pm)

This is an absolute life-saver. You just saved me from a long fight with Excel. Thanks!

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From: Nanci (March 10^th, 2009, 11:22 am)

It would be GREAT if you could put numbers across the bottom and heavier lines every 10 stitches so we could count stitches easily on the chart. Thanks!

Reply from: functionalknits (March 10^th, 2009, 11:58 am)

I've got an update almost ready to go which has every 5th stitch numbered.

From: Helga (March 12^th, 2009, 10:38 am)

Thank you so much for this chart creator!
Greetings from Germany!
Helga

Reply from: functionalknits (March 12^th, 2009, 2:42 pm)

You're welcome, Helga!

From: anne watson (March 19^th, 2009, 5:52 pm)

can you please set a value for skp (slip 1, knit1, psso)?

Thank you!

Reply from: functionalknits (March 20^th, 2009, 1:49 pm)

Hi Anne. Since skp is structurally identical to ssk, you can use the ssk symbol instead.

From: Jo Anne (March 23^rd, 2009, 11:58 am)

Love your chart generator! Have you thought about a way to mark pattern repeats? Or a way to add instructions?

Reply from: functionalknits (March 24^th, 2009, 5:28 pm)

I'm not sure of the best way to mark pattern repeats - this is something I've considered though. I probably wouldn't include instructions, as the final result is an image that is intended to be included as part of a complete pattern (which would have details such as needles, gauge, yarn, instructions).

From: cynthia webb (March 31^st, 2009, 3:42 pm)

to mark pattern repeats (ex.k2,yo,[k]3,yo]) across a row, could you use a different set of brackets (ex. {}) to surround the repeat and then use a number after the bracket {}12 to indicate the number of repeats for that row? (ex. {[k]2,yo,[k]3,yo,[k3]}12

Reply from: functionalknits (April 1^st, 2009, 11:03 am)

Let me think about that. I'm still not sure that pattern repeats are necessary.

From: Vicki (April 1^st, 2009, 8:06 am)

Can your program handle charting triangle shawls?
Find me as SimpleKnits on Ravelry.

Reply from: functionalknits (April 1^st, 2009, 11:03 am)

Yes, you can just use the "no stitch" tool along the edges while you are increasing. I actually developed this tool to help me with a triangle shawl pattern.

From: Evelyn (April 2^nd, 2009, 4:36 pm)

This is awesome! One question: shouldn't the description of this stitch: sk2p ~ (slip one, knit two, pass slipped stitch over) be slip one, knit two together, pass slipped stitch over? It appears to be a decrease of 2 stitches (3->1).

Thanks so much!

Reply from: functionalknits (April 7^th, 2009, 11:16 am)

Whoops! Thanks Evelyn for pointing that out, I have corrected it now.

From: Marianne (April 27^th, 2009, 12:49 pm)

Thank you for making this available! No more graph paper and sloppy symbols!

Reply from: functionalknits (April 27^th, 2009, 11:37 pm)

You are very welcome!

From: Aurelia (May 5^th, 2009, 12:39 am)

I haven't yet understood very well, but it's fantastic.
You are a genius, Thank you very much for sharing this with us

Reply from: functionalknits (May 6^th, 2009, 9:57 pm)

Let me know if you have any questions, maybe I can make it more clear for you.

From: lori (May 5^th, 2009, 6:00 am)

thank you so much for this..what would we do without the generous geniuses of the world.

Reply from: functionalknits (May 6^th, 2009, 9:57 pm)

Aw thanks.

From: Judy (May 13^th, 2009, 12:24 pm)

Could use a symbol for slip stitch. Thanks

Reply from: functionalknits (May 17^th, 2009, 8:13 am)

Hi Judy, I've provided two different slip stitches (sp - slip one purlwise and sk - slip one knitwise). Let me know if there are others that I should include.

From: faye (May 22^nd, 2009, 10:47 am)

this chart generator is awesome. i was thinking i would use excel to make a chart when i stumbled upon this link in ravelry. thanks for taking the time to make this and thanks for sharing it with us.

Reply from: functionalknits (May 24^th, 2009, 7:38 pm)

No problem, I'm glad you found it useful!

From: Penny (June 9^th, 2009, 2:46 am)

Can I save as a file on my computer?

Reply from: functionalknits (June 12^th, 2009, 7:34 am)

You can save the chart as an image.

From: jane (June 13^th, 2009, 7:43 am)

thank you so much!!!! this is the best thing ever! I have been looking into purchasing programs that do this, but they are expensive and don't support macs. you are wonderful to do this!!!!

Reply from: functionalknits (July 1^st, 2009, 7:16 pm)

Happy to help!

From: Caryn (July 6^th, 2009, 9:57 am)

Thanks for this. I saw it on Ravelry when you first posted it and didn't favorite it. Glad I found it again.
I have a pattern that is a multiple of 10 + 4 stitches. The repeats within each row start a varying number of stitches in so I can't write an instruction to repeat a block of stitches x number of times. A written pattern would use *'s to show the beginning and ending of these repeats. Can you find a way for us to highlight these stitches? I can then write an instruction to repeat the highlighted blocks x amount of times. Thanks again. This is great!

From: Karen (August 11^th, 2009, 1:59 pm)

Fabulous tool! Some instructions on the page would be helpful for a first-timer. My first attempt was to copy and paste text from a pattern into the box -- that didn't work! I figured out to click on the symbols, but it took longer to understand how to do multiples of a stitch.

Reply from: functionalknits (August 12^th, 2009, 5:22 pm)

Check out the help page for instructions. Let me know if anything is unclear!

From: Karen (August 11^th, 2009, 2:04 pm)

Another thing that would be amazingly useful -- to have a toggle button for "knit in the round" or "knit flat" that would allow the user to enter the stitch instructions exactly as written, and would then reverse the even-numbered rows for patterns knitted flat (but not for those knitted in the round). I don't ask for much, to I? ;-)

Reply from: functionalknits (August 12^th, 2009, 5:22 pm)

That option is there - use the drop down that says "All rows charted right-to-left" and select "reverse every second row" to swap it from flat to round or vice-versa.

From: Lainie (August 12^th, 2009, 5:29 am)

Love it !! I find it so much more pleasant to knit from a chart and your program is a vast improvement(not to mention prettier!) than my excel charts. Thank you!!! I, too, like the idea of seeing the pattern repeats (especially when trying to convert a stitch pattern to working in the round), but plugging that into a software program would be a bit complicated. And with your chartGen, it's easy enough to duplicate the stitch pattern and highlight the repeat.

The only 'improvement' for me would be to be able to see all of the chartGen input page on my screen. This may be because of my screen resolution settings (which I really don't want to change); but, otherwise, it's terrific!!!

Reply from: functionalknits (August 12^th, 2009, 5:22 pm)

Thanks - I'll take a look into modifying it to show more text.

From: Rin (August 19^th, 2009, 6:44 pm)

Thank you Thank you THANK YOU!

From: KnittedFox (August 21^st, 2009, 12:49 pm)

This is so neat! I have been trying to write a pattern for a baby blanket and haven't had much luck. This helped me get the correct amount of stitches and to get the pattern to flow correctly. Thanks!!

From: Dawn (September 12^th, 2009, 9:45 am)

Thanks, this is not only fun to play with, but a great learning tool for those of us who are afraid of charts!

From: celeste (October 14^th, 2009, 9:06 pm)

thank you for creating this tool.

From: fey (October 24^th, 2009, 1:05 pm)

just made a chart that I had hand drawn and had no way to share-- now I can share it thanks to your awesomeness-- thank you so much!! xoxo!

Reply from: functionalknits (November 8^th, 2009, 12:35 pm)

You're welcome, thanks for commenting!

From: Amy (October 30^th, 2009, 9:22 am)

Just WOW!!!!!!

From: Caryn O'Keefe (November 3^rd, 2009, 10:04 am)

If I have a stitch pattern that is a repeat of 10 stitches plus 4, how do I differentiate the stitches to be repeated from the ones that should be done only once on a row? In a written pattern this would be done with the instruction to repeat from * to * and end with the extra stitches. On charts it's usually done with brackets or bolded lines. I haven't been able to figure this part out here.
I've used this generator since you first posted it on Ravelry and think it is a wonderful tool to have. Thanks for developing it.

From: Linda (November 7^th, 2009, 9:22 am)

Great tool!

How do you do repeats of groups of stitches?

Reply from: functionalknits (November 8^th, 2009, 12:35 pm)

I haven't worked that out yet, but I think I'll be adding it in soon!

From: Marti (November 19^th, 2009, 2:34 pm)

This is great! I just put my shawl on Ravelry and had several people ask if I am going to have the pattern available. Is there any way to reduce the cells so as to have more stitches per row? What is the max you have programmed in?

Reply from: functionalknits (December 17^th, 2009, 7:44 pm)

There is no max, but the image will get very wide.

From: Jacqueline (December 6^th, 2009, 1:52 am)

Trying to repeat k, yo for 225 times. So input to generator:
k, [k, yo]225, k
is not possible.
These kind of repeats are very common in knitting. Could you adapt the generator to process these kind of muliple stitch repeats also?

Reply from: functionalknits (December 17^th, 2009, 7:44 pm)

I'm planning on adding this in soon.

From: Marush (December 7^th, 2009, 4:25 am)

HI!
I'd like to be able to add beginning & ending stitches. Ex: the pattern I'm using right now has 4 beginning sts. That's fine, except occasionally it borrows a stitch from the left for an ssk. How can I show that?
All that said, this is terrific software! I'm grateful to have found a link to it on Ravelry!
Cheers, Marush (Ravelry Marush)

Also asterisk to show repeats.

Reply from: functionalknits (December 17^th, 2009, 7:44 pm)

I'm not really sure what you are asking, you can just copy in the beginning and ending stitches on each row.

From: Marush (December 7^th, 2009, 5:25 am)

Marush again. I added the beginning & ending stitches by using a pink box. After it printed, it was easy to add an ssk symbol to the beginning stitches where I needed it.Because they are highlighted pink, I know they are beginning & ending sts & the sts in the middle repeat. Cool, huh?

I still haven't come up with a way to show that the last 12 sts on certain rows need to be different, but it may be there.

Very nice & friendly program. Stay with it!!!

From: Marush (December 12^th, 2009, 6:57 am)

Thanks again. I've used this several times in the past weeks.

From: Patricia Sutton (December 28^th, 2009, 6:16 am)

I love your KCGen tool! I noticed when I resize the grid it doesn't show on the screen display the full grid. The bottom of the chart begins at row 15 and not 1. There doesn't seem to be a bar to move down the chart.

Reply from: functionalknits (January 2^nd, 2010, 11:52 pm)

I'm not sure what you mean by resize?

From: Connie (January 11^th, 2010, 6:48 pm)

Works great! Thank you for sharing. I had a question, but was answered by reading below. Thanks again.

From: horve1 (January 13^th, 2010, 10:26 am)

This is the best thing I've found in ... well... forever! I just might decide to design my daughter's wedding veil now.

From: sonda juliussen (January 29^th, 2010, 5:03 pm)

I am very happy to find your page! This looks awesome and I will be back. I have needed this exact thing so many times!!!! I am very excited and very grateful to you for sharing it! THANK YOU!

From: Peggy (February 2^nd, 2010, 3:06 pm)

Fantastic tool! Thank you so much for making it available! (If only patterns were uniform enough to just copy or scan them in!) My small negligible problem was that I didn't know how to get the row numbering to use even numbers. In my book, the pattern rows were even-numbered. Thank you again for your generosity.

From: Emily (February 4^th, 2010, 5:57 pm)

I love this tool, but ran into problems when it came to getting a printer-friendly version through either Picase or Windows...either version cut off the left portion of the chart. I did have success, however, by simply highlighting the chart and key on the main webpage, and then pasting into Microsoft Word and printing.
Thank you!

From: Sarah Burton (February 27^th, 2010, 4:06 am)

I love this tool, and I want to sincerely thank you for the time you have invested and for making this available for free. This is the most intuitive and easy to use tool I have found so far. Great job.

Reply from: functionalknits (March 30^th, 2010, 1:44 pm)

Aw thanks, I'm glad you found it useful.

From: Carolyn (March 13^th, 2010, 12:52 pm)

I would like to create a chart that reads in one square k4 and group stitches like k3yok1yok3 in one space. Can I do this in custom stitch?

Reply from: functionalknits (March 30^th, 2010, 1:44 pm)

Sure, just set the set the custom stitch to be over 1 stitch, then it will take up one space in the chart.

From: Dorothy (March 24^th, 2010, 6:17 pm)

Hello,

I am in the process of writing a pattern for publication and would like to use your chart generator for the lace chart. Full credit will be given, of course. I just see no reason to re-invent something you've done so incredibly well! Please shoot me an email at to let me know what you think!

Thanks!

Reply from: functionalknits (March 30^th, 2010, 1:44 pm)

Emailed you!

From: Veronica (April 6^th, 2010, 10:38 pm)

Thank you so much - you just made my life much easier :)

From: Annalisa (April 12^th, 2010, 12:49 pm)

This is a great resource: user friendly and incredibly useful.
Thank you

From: Melissa (May 3^rd, 2010, 11:08 pm)

Could we get the "tbl" for the k & p?

I have a chart that is using p2tog tbl and have used the k2tog tbl.

Reply from: functionalknits (May 6^th, 2010, 9:14 pm)

I can't really think of an appropriate symbol for those, but you could use the custom stitches for them.

From: Carol (May 9^th, 2010, 9:07 am)

Color me frustrated! I keep getting this error, even though I have changed/edited to get the proper spacing..it always jumps back to all run together as in the error message:
There is an error in your input, please check to make sure you have only used the specified stitches, separated by commas (without spaces).
Unknown stitch on row 1: Row1:p1

Reply from: functionalknits (May 24^th, 2010, 12:09 am)

Hi Carol, you shouldn't have a '1' after your 'p'. It should just be p, for a purl.

From: Eileen (June 7^th, 2010, 6:38 am)

I wish you could make it more like this one:
http://jacquie.typepad.com/Charts/knitChart.htm
where you only have to click on a square to put a stitch in. I find yours clunky for what I'm doing (making charts of small squares with inset, or seed stitch images.) The other one seems to be a cobweb at this time, there is no way to print the chart you generate, or save it to your computer, etc. And the work-arounds don't work, either. Also, if you use her pixel size, you can only get half a chart. If you change the pixel size so you can see the whole chart, then it prints funny. It also prints the whole damned website instead of just your design. I think you can do much better.

From: MissMadgeMakes (June 12^th, 2010, 12:05 pm)

I'm just starting out with lace and finding charts easier to follow than written patterns, there are so many wonderful free patterns on Ravelry but not all are charted, so I would like to say a huge thank you to you for creating this chartGen, it's magically easy to use.

kind regards Lesley aka MissMadgeMakes

Reply from: functionalknits (June 24^th, 2010, 10:56 pm)

No probably, I'm glad it's been helpful.

From: Rachel (June 14^th, 2010, 8:43 am)

Hi Jen,
Just wanted to say ChartGen rocks. I used it to help illustrate my knitted pattern on my blog. (Scroll to the end and you will see your kudos and rep). Also added you to useful knitting tools! Very cool generator.
Posted on http://www.frogdogknits.com/2010/06/13/designing-my-first-baby-hat/

Reply from: functionalknits (June 24^th, 2010, 10:56 pm)

Very cute hat!

From: Rachel (June 20^th, 2010, 10:32 am)

Hey there.
Love this generator. Can you add slip stitch to your charting?
Rachel

Reply from: functionalknits (June 24^th, 2010, 10:56 pm)

Hi Rachel, slip stitches are already available in chartGen.

From: Michele (August 2^nd, 2010, 4:22 pm)

This is a great little tool which I love to you when possible.

Thank you for sharing this.

From: Hannah (August 8^th, 2010, 3:28 pm)

Hi! I love your chart generator. I have a pattern that I need to chart for a Knitty submission, which means that it would be sold if the pattern were chosen. Is this okay with you? I'd be sure to credit and provide a link to your website so that other people could find it, it's wonderful.

Reply from: functionalknits (October 17^th, 2010, 9:21 pm)

Hi Hannah, yes, feel free to use the chart in your pattern.

From: LizC (September 3^rd, 2010, 11:24 am)

Can you let us know if and how you would like to be reference in patterns that use your chart? Or, do you allow your charts to be used in patterns?
Thanks

Reply from: functionalknits (October 17^th, 2010, 9:21 pm)

Yes you can use the charts in patterns - I'd appreciate a link back but it's not necessary.

From: Vicki (September 6^th, 2010, 1:09 am)

You've saved my sanity - I'm trying to work out how to knit the Myrtle cardigan and being able to stitch sections of charts together has been a miracle and better than the hand drawn ones I planned!

Reply from: functionalknits (October 17^th, 2010, 9:21 pm)

Aw, Vicki, thanks for the feedback! So happy to help.

From: Lucy aka TexasKnitster on Rave (October 18^th, 2010, 4:04 pm)

A friend just sent me a link to your chart generator and already I love you! Anyway you could please, please, please add cable combinations for cable to the back with a knit tbl, and purl, or cable to the front with a purl, then k1tbl?