I'm so excited about this illusion square that I scrambled to finish the chart before leaving for work yesterday morning. It's the first chart I've ever made and the first anything I'm doing with illusion knitting, but for some reason I'm really confident it's going to work.
After studying a couple patterns (the alien scarf in Stitch 'n Bitch and another one on dA), it just clicked--colors alternate every two rows, the second row of each color contains the RS purls, and the actually number of RS purl rows is 1/4 the number of total rows so the image has to be on a 1/4 vertical scale. That's it!
Which makes me wonder if I could write up a tutorial for it... hmm...
The only thing I am scared of is that the total number of sts and rows will be off. The results of the stockinette 7" x 9" gauge "swatch" I made to prep for this really surprised me. It was the first time since beginning to knit continental that I had entire rows of just knit or purl, not mixed. All my purl sts were loose enough that they're at risk of slipping off the metal needles; my knit sts were so tight that they took a bit of effort to slide around the metal needles. Weird. It makes sense, I guess, since purling continental is easier than the knit for me (...which itself it also a bit strange).
Whatever happens, it'll be a good experience.
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