At last all my ducks are in as close to a straight row as they are going to be for now and I have released the latest version of my Knitting Chart Maker. Please have a play with it and be sure to let me know what you think especially if it does anything weird on you - or if there is something else you'd like it to do.
I know the Saving and Opening leave a lot to be desired, but that is Applets for you. One day it maybe a proper program and it will all be much simpler.
There is some Help on the second part of the page that I hope is useful. Again any feed back at all would be great.
If it won't load you may not have the Java Plug-in installed.
The biggest plan for its future is colour charts - maybe in a month or two!
It is free to use how ever you want - my gift to knitters everywhere :-)
It must be a good day for finishing things because despite having a streaming head cold (in June?? :-( Yes I know. I have no idea where it came from) - I have also completed Gary's socks.
I managed to do the second extraction of yarn and grafting with out ripping the whole thing out or killing anyone, and I think they look OK. They fit him and I think they will be good for hiking or the winter. I actually used the chart maker for the "faux-gyle" pattern in them.
Next on my agenda is my khaki skirt. I decided I didn't have enough fabric for that and went back to Jo Ann's for some more. I prewashed it all, and just as well it shran
k about 2ins across the width and length. That would definitely have made an unwelcome difference if I had left the washing til afterwards.
Here is the view from our little deck. That's the mountains on the west side of the valley you can see.
Great news - I'll be giving the chart maker a try soon. Sorry to hear about your cold - hope you feel back to normal soon.
Posted by: Cheryl | June 12, 2007 at 09:12 PM
hope you are feeling better...the views look splendiferous very beautiful
Posted by: carolinne Willson | June 13, 2007 at 01:49 AM
Thanks so much for the chart maker, Jackie. I'll spend some time with it this weekend and give you some feedback.
Posted by: susan | June 13, 2007 at 09:37 AM
I'm on a Mac, OS X, and I cannot get the chart maker itself to show up on Firefox, IE, or Safari.
The Help part looks wonderful; I was very excited to give it a spin! It looks like it would shave off several hours of my design time in Illustrator.
Posted by: Ember | June 13, 2007 at 04:27 PM
Ember do you have the Java Plug-In installed on your Mac?
You can get it from here
http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp
Posted by: Jacquie | June 13, 2007 at 04:31 PM
I look forward to playing around with it!
Posted by: Heather Joins The Round | June 13, 2007 at 05:40 PM
Thanks so much for this great program--it came along right when I needed it!!
I'm blogging about it today...
Best,
Amy
Posted by: Amy | June 14, 2007 at 08:10 AM
What a fantastic tool! My only request would be the ability to place the row numbers on opposite sides of the chart - because I am a left-handed/mirrored knitter, and I love working from charts, but must follow them from left to right and then right to left, opposite of most right-handed knitters out there!
Posted by: Lil | June 14, 2007 at 03:15 PM
Thanks for the chart maker. I will give it a try too. I played a wee bit with it but not enough to see how it works.
I'll come and post more feedback when I have played with it a bit more. But I just wanted to say a huge thank you for it!
Posted by: isela | June 15, 2007 at 10:35 PM
Thank you very much for the knitting chart. I've used the older version once before. I had a little drouble because I needed a symbol or two with other directions as the existing. My son helped me to make up my own and it worked out not too bad.
I used to sew a lot, from under wear to coats. In the beginning I didn't wash the fabric before sewing, but one learns from ones mistake. I made a coat and the lining shrank so much more than the other fabric it was funny to look at, but since then, every square inch of fabric goes into the washer before being used. Nowadays I'm doing very little sewing, just some bags and pouches.
Thanks again for the chart!
Posted by: Monika | June 16, 2007 at 04:34 AM
Love the chart maker but can't figure out how to get it in another program to print. I'm on a Mac, OS10 Tiger.
Posted by: Cindy | June 16, 2007 at 12:24 PM
Hi, great tool.
I made my first chart already.
Just a question : is it possible to add more symbols or to allow user to import or draw a new a symbol? And eventually save them in libraries?
I use Japanese charts a lot and I would like to stay with their notation.
thanks, Silvia
Posted by: Silvia | June 16, 2007 at 01:20 PM
The chart maker is wonderful! I've got one question...when I use the "no stitch" symbol, it makes the stitch count go negative. I have a k3tog and then a k1-yo-k1 to keep my total stitch count at 4 but when I chart it shows -2 stitches. Do I have to put in my cast on 4 stitches first?
Thanks so much for this gem!
Sara
Posted by: Sara | June 16, 2007 at 07:26 PM
I love your garden and view Jacquie. Idyllic springs to mind.... :)
Nice socks too. :)
Posted by: gilraen | June 17, 2007 at 02:13 AM
Gary's socks look great, I love the colours. What a fabulous view you have from your deck! That's the kind of thing I want to go to live in New Zealand for...
You have worked hard on the chart maker, it is looking very professional. I am going to design a Pi shawl some time this summer I hope and I think this will be great for helping with that.
Posted by: Knitbert | June 17, 2007 at 03:16 PM
I played around a bit with the chart maker today and have a couple suggestions to make it useful for those of us that knit round flat things (circular cardigans, tablecloths, etc.).
One is basically a cosmetic thing, most round flat patterns include plain knit rows between pattern rows so it would be nice to have the chart row numbers increment by a user set number (ie: 4 for charts with 1 pattern row to 3 plain rows).
The other is a "end of row/repeat" indicator since the charts increase a stitch per row and end up triangular rather than square.
Posted by: Tephra | June 18, 2007 at 10:31 PM
Okay, this is totally great. I love it!
A couple of suggestions-
First, if it were possible to save as a GIF or a JPG, that would be AMAZING. That way it could be imported into another document easily. I know that's probably not easy to do in Java, but there has to be some way.
Also, it would be super cool if there were an option that allowed you to highlight or outline a given section. For example, I just charted a 12 st + 1 lace pattern, but I had to print it out and draw a vertical line with a pencil along the edges of the repeat to show where the repeat would be (otherwise it looks like a 13 st repeat, not a 12-st repeat with one extra stitch.) Does that make sense?
Beyond that it's wonderful! This is sheer genius!
Posted by: the kitchener bitch | June 20, 2007 at 10:15 AM
Okay, this is totally great. I love it!
A couple of suggestions-
First, if it were possible to save as a GIF or a JPG, that would be AMAZING. That way it could be imported into another document easily. I know that's probably not easy to do in Java, but there has to be some way.
Also, it would be super cool if there were an option that allowed you to highlight or outline a given section. For example, I just charted a 12 st + 1 lace pattern, but I had to print it out and draw a vertical line with a pencil along the edges of the repeat to show where the repeat would be (otherwise it looks like a 13 st repeat, not a 12-st repeat with one extra stitch.) Does that make sense?
Beyond that it's wonderful! This is sheer genius!
Posted by: the kitchener bitch | June 20, 2007 at 10:15 AM
Wow - what a great and fun tool to use. I've been charting patterns using Excel, but your Java chart is so much more fun. Thanks for putting the time and energy into this for us knitters!
This may be a dumb question, but what symbol do I use for "k2tog tbl"?
Posted by: Teri | June 20, 2007 at 11:45 PM
this knit chart make on your sight, i can't get it to work. is there something i need to do to get it to work. would like to try it out . it sounds like something i could use. thanks.
Posted by: scaner | June 28, 2007 at 08:15 AM
Hi there! I came over from Susan Lawrence's blog, and I really love the chart maker. It's easy to use, has a bunch of really nifty and easy-to-use features, and intuitive to boot. My only question is how do I print the chart when I've got it done? I'm not a computer knitter . . . ;o)
Great job!
--Annalea
Posted by: Annalea | June 28, 2007 at 01:56 PM
could you add a few more colors so you can make a chart with a color pallet? like just a roygbiv, with pink and brown pallet. i'm so glad that somebody came up with one of these programs though! Good work! you get 1 million cool points~
Posted by: lotsa knotsa | July 16, 2007 at 02:49 PM
http://jacquie.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/06/new_knitting_ch.html
Load: class KnitChartAppletv04 not found this is the error msg that I get when I tried to get to the Knitting Chart Maker
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Posted by: Sandy in San Jose CA | January 26, 2008 at 10:37 PM
Load: class KnitChartAppletv04 not found this is the error msg that I get when I tried to get to the Knitting Chart Maker.
I am getting this message also, have you removed the chart maker from the web?
Posted by: Therese | April 21, 2008 at 06:38 AM
It works for me. I'm on a Mac with OS X 10.4, though, not 10.5.
Posted by: litlnemo | April 28, 2008 at 01:08 PM