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- This is the chart we just worked a sample of,

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and the one I'm using to demonstrate the cowl.

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And now I'll show you how I created that.

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When I design double-knits with two different patterns

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on either side, I always create

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a separate chart for each side,

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that's like a traditional chart.

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This is what the graph paper looks like

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without anything in it.

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And as you can see, there are the white columns, for side A,

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the gray columns for side B, and there are two rows,

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one for contrasting color, and one for main color,

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so that we have pass for each one.

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And we're gonna start by filing in one chart at a time.

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We'll look at the first square here.

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And it's a contrasting color, so I'm gonna fill that in,

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because our first pass is contrasting color.

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The next is a main color,

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so I come to the second square of side A.

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And since we're working contrasting color,

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that's gonna stay blank.

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Go over to the third one, it's a contrasting color again.

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So, one, two, here's the third one.

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Put a dot in it.

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The last one is a main color, so it's going to stay blank.

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So we have filled in, for the first row,

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the contrasting color for chart A.

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Now we're gonna do the main color.

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And main color is put in the second pass.

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The first one was contrasting color.

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We've already used it, so this is gonna stay blank.

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The next one is a main color, this is the next side A,

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and that's what we're filling in, so I'll put an X.

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The next A is contrasting color, blank.

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The next one is main color, so again, I'll fill it in.

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Now, we're gonna look at row two of chart A.

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And you'll see that there are no

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contrasting color squares filled in here.

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So we won't fill anything in

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on the pass for contrasting color.

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Every single one of them is a main color,

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so we come up to our main color row and, for chart A,

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I will fill in every square with an X

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representing the main color.

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On row three, we start with contrasting color again.

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The first square is a main color, so we skip it.

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The second square is a contrasting color.

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The first square is a main color.

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We're gonna skip it,

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since we're working the contrasting pass.

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The next one is a circle, because it's a contrasting color.

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The next one is a main color, so we'll skip it.

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Contrasting color, so we'll put in a circle for that.

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That completes the contrasting color for row three.

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Now we'll work the main color, which is one row up.

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The first one is a main color.

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So we'll put an X in there.

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The next one is a contrasting color; we'll leave it blank.

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The next one is a main color. X.

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The last one is contrasting color, so we'll leave it blank.

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And that completes the row three of chart A.

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Look at row four, once again, it's just like row two.

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Every color is main color.

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So we'll fill in, for chart A, all of them as main colors.

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Now we've completed filling in chart A

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of our double-knit chart.

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And now we'll start chart B.

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Every single stitch is contrasting color.

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So we come down to row one.

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Side B are the gray squares.

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And every single one is contrasting color,

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so we'll fill those in with a dot, for contrasting color.

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We have just completed row one for chart A and B

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on the double-knit chart.

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And if you look at it, you'll see

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that every stitch is accounted for.

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Here, here, here.

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If you saw that two were stacked up on top of each other,

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you'd know that there was a problem.

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Or if there was a blank and nothing was filled in

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for either of these, there would be a problem.

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For every single stitch, you have to account for,

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either as a main color or a contrasting color.

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We're gonna move on to the second row of chart B,

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and here's the second row starting, contrasting color.

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And if we look at our chart, there are no contrasted

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color stitches in that chart.

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So this will all stay blank.

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They're all main colors, so let's fill in main colors.

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Thank you, Bee.

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We've just finished filling in the stitches

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for chart B on row two.

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So, the double-knit chart is complete through two rows.

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Now, we'll do row three of chart B.

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You'll see that they're all contrasting colors.

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And here's row three, contrasting color.

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So we'll fill them all in.

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There are no main colors,

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so we don't fill up anything here with main color.

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And again, all stitches are accounted for,

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on the double-knit chart for row three.

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Look at row four.

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Once again, it's just like row two, there are no

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contrasting colors, so this will stay blank.

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They're all main colors, so we come up to

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the main color pass and fill in all the stitches.

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We've just completed row four of chart B,

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which finishes our double-knit chart

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for chart A and B, merged together.

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So now you know how to take two individual charts

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and merge them onto a double-knit chart together.

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So, you could look through your stitch dictionary

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and pick stitches and merge them,

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or you could create your own.

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And I have three stitch samples here

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that I worked for the book "Reversible Knitting."

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You can see that they're different.

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You could even have a pattern on one side

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and work it totally solid on the other.

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On the Creative Bug website, you can download,

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in the pattern, the special double-knit chart

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to create those unique patterns of your own.