Knitting Help - Decreasing in a Charted Pattern 

I know that this video is old, but every single time I have a problem and I need answers, there you are. Patiently instructing me and fixing everything! Thank you.

I bought several knitting kits from her and she's an excellent teacher. I have learned A LOT from her and I am a more confident knitter. I love her educational videos and would highly recommend her to any knitter.

This is best tutorial on chart reading i've seen! You are a wonderful educator. I had been very confused by charts' no-stitch boxes. Thank you very much.

This is my first time that I actually understand the chart. Thanks for the explanation.

Thank goodness you did this video. I’m about to embark on my first faire isle hat and my brain froze when I saw the grey blocks. Thank you so much! 😊

Thank you! This was a fantastic video. I have never had a problem using fair isle charts for straight knitting but the decreases always confused me- it's all about over thinking it. Your explanation was JUST what I needed! THANK YOU!

I can't believe I just saw this immediately after I was going over this EXACT issue with a knitting buddy! Again, thank you for the wonderful, clear video that people can come back and review over and over again! Please do not stop! You are one of my favorites!

Thank you SO much. After many years of knitting, I’ve recently embarked on knitting on the round and found the charts mind-boggling. 😱 What I thought was an easy little, semi-fairisle patterned bobble hat, has had me completely flummoxed on the decreases. You’ve made it all so simple and my TV has never had so many You Tube tutorials on it to assist. I can’t thank you enough!

Fabulous, thank you and so simple once it’s explained. The decrease on my charted lace pattern had me totally stumped, off to tame the beast! Thank you x

THANK you!! I have been working my first kep and the directions about decreasing were like mud. Your help was just great. I am ready to forge onward!

this is really great help!!!!Wow!!!! I have also been on a Fair Isle kick. I compile my own charts and am having a blast. I actually draw them from left to right and reverse them in my mind. Thanks again.

I’ve followed your pattern and love it. I’ve made a baby hat and I’m on the second adult hat now☺️thank you

Thank you! You have taught me to knit and now just when I needed you again, you were here. (Mine was a decrease on the top of colorwork mittens). Thank you so much!

Thank you, this was exactly what I needed to help me understand the stranded hat pattern I'm doing!

Great Video!!! You are ABSOLUTELY my “go to” for troublesome new techniques! Thank you, Thank you! ❤

Thank you for taking the 'scary' out of chart reading. I'm sure going to give it a try now! Thanks!

I feel like you're reading my mind! I've been making the Mitten Garland Advent calendar by Kathy Lewinski on Ravelry and I hadn't done charted decreases like that before but once I figured it out I flew right through it.

OMG!!!! I have been searching for a video to explain this right. I completely understand now and am ready for my first 2 color hat. Thank you..thank you...thank you so much.

This was so very helpful! Thank you - you've solved the mystery of the grayed-out stitches for me!

I was scared to death of using a chart but once I tried it (a very simple chart), I loved it. However, I found a pattern the other day with all the "no stitch" things and I had no idea what they were talking about--now I know! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Hi Stacie thank you for making chart reading so easy!!!!!I always get confused even in crochet patterns

Thanks for explaining this I am fairly new to charts but I am an experienced knitter. I have a lace chart pattern and I figured it was R to L odd rows (usually right side ) and L to R even rows. Then it gets to about 6 rows to the end of the lace and suddenly there were blanks and I knew the pattern decreased from 95 to 75 to give a peplum bottom effect I knew the decrease would come somewhere as soon as I saw this I could see on the chart how the Dec worked thanks again x

Thank you. finally I understood!! Happy New Year!

Oh my gosh, i think I get It! I made multiple plain hats this winter and have avoided fair isle simply because it seemed too confusing. Thank you; despite heading into summer, I’m going to try this. Hi hi, hi ho, it’s off to knit I go 😀

Actually, a few patterns from the early 1940s have written out colorwork, and especially Victorian patterns (when working colorwork) also have the instructions written out instead of charted. I love your videos and your Podcast!

Just a quick note to help people avoid confusion. You say that there will be only one stitch left in each repeat after completing the double decrease at the top of the (mythical) hat pattern. There will actually be two stitches left if you include the very first stitch in each repeat, which continues uninterrupted up the right side of the chart. So, to be clear, if this pattern were repeated 5 times around, you would have 10 stitches remaining on the needles, not 5.

So glad I found your tutorial! Great explanation. Thank you

This is an excellent explanation of how to read a charted pattern, Staci! I loom knit and have been double knitting with 2 colors for almost a year now. I have a needle knit Star Wars color charted hat pattern that I want to do for my husband that incorporates 3 colors with decreases. I'll be able to decrease on the loom I'm going to use (kisslooms.com) and am very anxious to get started on it :) I love getting notifications of new videos from you! It's like seeing that a new episode of a favorite t.v. series has been released :) Thank you so much for all the time you put into making these for us. You have contributed greatly to making better knitters out of us all :)

I just want to say thank you and I wish you a good life

This is great, just what I needed. Thank you

thank you! this is a lifesaver

thank you thank you now I understand how to get through the chart I was working on

This was so easy to understand! Thank you very much :)

Thank you, this makes a lot of sense.

I love your videos. Thank you so much

Thank You, for sharing this video. i love it.

"That stitch did not grow back." Hahahaha! :-D

OMG THANK YOU!!!!! much I now can do this one sweater I have that is steeked you are wonderful

Ahaaa!!!! Now I got it!!! Thank you!!! Now it's clear!!! Thank you :)

Thank you! This now makes sense

Thanks. I just came to the “no stitch” box for the first time. This helped.

Oooo I wonder if you could almost encorperate German short rows. I'm obsessed with GSRs, I might have to try with mittens 💖. Finger up GSR fair isle mitts? Lol

Clear and concise!

Doing fair isle hats myself, check out Arne and Carlos website for written and charted fair isle patterns, and love the explanation of the chart you give, thank you!

This was a very good video as all your videos are, but I have problems with in a pattern stitch panel within say an armhole dec. Have you any suggestions for that? I've tried all over the place and there doesn't seem to be any hard and fast rule/way to do this. Tia

Wow! No stitch! Thank you so much!

Thank you for this!

I’m missing something. SSK requires two stitches. I see the SSK symbol, that’s one of the two stitches. Which is the other stitch - the one to the left or the one to the right of the symbol? I know this must be totally obvious, but not to me. Please help!

Love this, thanks

I need this!!

Great Video! Thank you

Hi Staci! I'm curious about what site or software you use to make charts, it looks really tidy!

I am knitting a cabled cardigan made with mohair and the sweater is knittedin pieces. When decreasing for the shoulders, armholes, neckline, or the sleeves should I knit in stockinette when I cannot knit the charted stitch(es)?

What about if the pattern is for a mitten and each side has a different design and one side has an extra stitch?

2:25 thank you! I was wondering how my hat would end up being one sided lol

Thank you for this tutorial. I have a question, how I can reduce the size of my chart? I have one chart that I would like to use for a kid hat, is a penguin but the chart that I found is 59 stitches of wide and 95 stitches for high. Definitely the high is too much and I would like to reduce the size but I don't know how to do it.

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have you ever thought about trying to do instruction for people who are interested in learning how to create patterns themselves? and what the steps are for that? or is that just something that comes with experience, observation and the innate desire to create that just propels you forward? I've really enjoyed picking up knitting again, and your videos have been so helpful! but I tend towards always wanting to figure out how to plan it, make it, understand it etc... and chart my own course! Tips?

The way you easily explain things, especially with chart patterns, has made me more and more enamored with them! I do have a question about today's video. I understood the direction in the one stitch '\' meant to SSK. I know how to work the SSK, but my question is the very next stitch on the chart. That stitch is NOT one of the stitches included in the SSK, correct? In other words, that stitch is the very next stitch you work once you've completed the SSK? Sometimes it's these little things that completely flummox me! Thank you for this great video and all of the videos you've produce that have taught me so much!!

Hi Staci, great video and explanation. Just curious, if the hat is knitted in the round, why are there left and right leaning decreases? Or this one is another thing?

I was wondering if you could clear something up for me, perhaps on the podcast: the term "Fair Isle" seems to be used interchangeably with or instead of "stranded" knitting by a lot of well-known knitters. I thought Fair Isle was a specific type of stranded knitting, but not all stranded knitting is Fair Isle. Thanks for all the help!

This is a great video, BUT doesn't answer the related question I have about my own nordic hat chart which includes decreases but no 'gray' empty spaces. The chart I'm using includes a continuous row of a 24 stitch pattern, with no empty spaces. The pattern repeats 8 times around the crown, but the chart doesn't indicate the stitch lost by the decrease. So I'm concerned i'm going to botch the whole pattern.

I love your videos . I am working a graph which calls for decrease 6 in the middle of the work. I have practiced from the instruction I have, but it doesn’t look right. Can you help me ? .

Thank you!!

What about increases in a charted Fair Isle pattern? I am knitting sleeves in the round with increases with a 12 stitch pattern repeat. The increases are at the beginning and end of approx. every 6th row - and within the 12 stitch pattern.

can you make a video about shaping lace please?

I love fair isle. I'm looking for a fair isle pattern for an adult poncho that's in the round. I'm not having any luck.

The slip slip knit takes two stitches only one stitch box has the \ symbol. Do you use the stitch before or after that box as the second stitch in the SSK? I generally, always, over think these things 🤪

Great video. However, how would decreases work in a fair isle pattern if your row gauge is off?

I understand what you are describing, however my question is the actual decreases. I know how to do an SSK and a knit 2 tog. So...Does the square take into account that knit 2 tog takes 2 stitches? but it's represented as one square? Is that correct?

The ssk and k2tog are marked in one square. How is that done when you need 2 sts for each stitch? You say ignore the grey blocks.

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I wanted to ask if your knitting a pattern that you want knit extra rows but in pattern tell you you need 170 yards and you have 270 yards and wish to make use of most if not almost all the skein how do you approximate how many extra rows you can knit before binding off? I hope you get what I am saying 😕

When patterns are only charted and not written out blind and other visually disabled knitters are shut out of using the pattern. More and more patterns are being written with charts only, because charts are easier for the designer while making it impossible for lots of knitters. Worst is when a pattern doesn't tell you that it is charted only.

Correction: You would have 10 stitches left, if we were meant to follow the chart given. Remember that little white stitch on the right side! besides 10 stitches would make more sense for the top of a hat anyway :)

Hi, I need to make a complex cable sweater but don't know how. Unfortunately, I can't attach the photo to my comment. Can I email you the photo and you explain in a video how to make it? Please let me know if you are interested. Thanks 💐

I’ll have to watch this again....I guess I’m not a chart girl, lol.