Create & Modify Knitting Charts for Flat and Circular Knitting On Demand Web Seminar

A follow-up to Simona Merchant Dest’s first webinar, dive more in-depth deciphering knitting charts with this second webinar!

Simona will show you reasons why it is sometimes necessary to have a stitch pattern charted rather than in a written form. She will show you that there are far more usages for working with knitting charts than just following a pattern.

Simona will teach you how you can translate written instructions of stitch patterns found in dictionaries into charts. She will demonstrate how to use charts to customize your fit. She will share with you how to shape and modify your projects in pattern invisibly. 

Join Simona to learn how to use charts to simplify and customize your knitting and reach impeccable finished project!

• Why we “translate” written instructions of a stitch pattern into a chart
• When it is imperative to convert written instructions into charted form
• All the steps necessary to successfully convert written instructions of a stitch pattern into a chart
• How to transform a chart used for a flat pattern into one used for a circular knitting pattern
• How to use charts to shape invisibly within a pattern
• How to modify your knits using charts
• How to increase and decrease invisibly in lace and cable patterns
• How to shape in colorwork
• And more!

This webinar is designed as the second step in knitting chart comprehension. Join Simona on a journey of learning how to create charts from written instructions and how to transform charts used for flat knitting into a chart used for circular knitting today with this Knitting Charts 2 webinar!

Simona is both knitwear and crochet designer, and a co-author of the best-selling book The Art of Seamless Knitting. Her designs have been featured in most national and international knitting magazine and books. She was a Creative Director and Project Coordinator for Mission Falls and worked as a Technical Design Interpreter for Anna Cohen’s Imperial Knits Collection for Imperial Yarns.

Simona was born and raised in the Czech Republic and her distinguished style in her design has a punch of European flare. She is not only an expert in using charts as a part of knitting instructions, but she also shares her knowledge on how to use charts to modify and customize knits including converting from flat to knitting in the round.