How To Read A Knitting Chart. I am doing a sweater and cannot understand this chart. The basics Every square in a chart represents a stitch and these are read in the direction you are knitting if the work is viewed from the right side.
A legend will tell you what this symbol represents. Learn to read a visual knitting chart with confidence. You read each pattern row from the number of the row.
It is filled with a symbol.
At first this might seem weird and random but lets take a look at why this makes sense. Charts are grids of squares where each square represents one stitch. Charts show you the knitted fabric as you are looking at it that is the right side of the. It has a red line around the very first box which it days the symbol means repeat.