No stitch box

I've wasted most of the evening trying to work out where to insert no stitch boxes when drawing up a chart of knitted lace -- all the references on the Internet (even when I'd worked out that was how you were supposed to represent a written pattern with differing numbers of stitches per row) tell you how to interpret no stitch boxes when you encounter them, not the theory of how to put them in!

And yes, it does matter where they go, since the whole point of the exercise is to establish the 'columns' in the pattern so that you end up with the right number of stitches when casting off at the edges. ( Read more... )