Help Please.

[bramble]

I have been talked into knitting Christmas sweaters for three of my grandkids.
I have all the sleeves and the backs finished but I am now finding it almost impossible to follow the pattern on the grid as the squares are so small.
Is there any way that I can enlarge them.
Hubby tried but without success.

[scarey55]

Do you have a scanner? I was going to ask if you have a computer but... duh!

[Bren In Pots]

Bramble get some graph paper and copy the pattern on to it a line at a time, I've done that before with stitching patterns.

[WendyC]

Can you enlarge it on a photocopier?

[mothhawk]

^^^^ that's what I do. Set the copier (if you have a printer it's most likely a copier too) on 150% or 200%. You may have to do half the pattern at a time, so it will be on 2 separate pieces of paper. Then you can either sellotape them together or work from one at a time. You may find it easier to enlarge it in stages, say 120%, then divide that in half and enlarge each half again.

Failing that, take it to a copy shop - I think most Osbornes still do photocopying, and ask them to enlarge it. They can do it onto one sheet of paper for you.

[Hazel at the Hill]

Failing that, take it to a copy shop - I think most Osbornes still do photocopying, and ask them to enlarge it. They can do it onto one sheet of paper for you.

Or your local library. Mind you, if your local library is anything like mine, it will take three of them half an hour in order to work out how to enlarge and print onto A3.

[bramble]

Thanks to all for the helpful replies.I was marking the rows off one at a time but as my eyes are not as good as they were i was finding it hard
Hubby has now enlarged it on scanner and i am finding it so much easier.

[mothhawk]

Thanks to all for the helpful replies.I was marking the rows off one at a time...

Yes, I used to do that, which is fine on front and back, but then you do the sleeves, and after crossing off each row on the first sleeve, using the same grid for the other one I used to get mixed up which rows were crossed off for the first sleeve and which for the second.


I've just restarted a sweater that I began over 3 years ago. It's quite a complicated pattern and after doing the front and back, I'd nearly finished the first sleeve when I found I'd made a mistake right down near the cuff. I was so mad at having to undo virtually the whole sleeve that I shoved it in a cupboard and haven't touched it for 3 years, but I'm determined to finish it for Christmas - this year!

[bramble]

I know the feeling Mothhaewk. I too had a good few "unfinished symphonies" in the back of the press as well. However this year I have been ploughing my way through them as this was part of my challenge for the year.

[Dorothy rouse]

I'm not really a knitter, but have knitted some for my baby grandsons. Don't know us this a helpful suggestion or not, cos I also use bits of paper and tick of 'rows completed ' , but I actually knit both sleeves at the same time, on the same needles, with separate balls of wool, that way they end up the same length !

DottyR

[Glutton4...]

I need a picture of that, Dotty!

[Dorothy rouse]

I need a picture of that, Dotty!

Oh, problem is I'm not doing any knitting at the moment. Do you really want a pic?

I can explain a bit more?

[Dorothy rouse]

Ok, example I'll try.

2 balls wool
1 pair size 10 knitting needles.
Using 1 ball wool, and pair needles, cast on 20 stitches, then use other ball wool, cast on 20 stitches.
So you have 2 little sleeves, on 1 needle, continue, working both at same time.

Someone suggested this to me many years ago, and I always work sleeves like this, much better than trying to measure that. You have them sane length.

Also think you actually work them faster, cos you suddenly have both completed at same time.

No babies on the way for me to knit for at the mo!

Hope this helps

[Florence Fennel]

I always knit both sleeves at the same time too Dotty - it's so boring if you do them separately. I'm doing snoods and hats at the moment, I've usually got something on the go. Glad to hear you've found a solution Bramble, I too find it difficult now to follow a complex pattern. What's on the front of the jumpers?

[Bigmallly]

I was gonna suggest taking a photo Bramble then resizing it on the PC but looks like you've got it sorted plus I know nowt about knitting except it has some knit & pearls in it somewhere..........