How Do You Use Counted Cross Stitch Patterns To Knit Designs In Sweaters?
How would you like to be able to knit in any design you want when you are making a sweater? This can allow you to take your favorite sweater pattern and customize it to the themes and personalities of the people who will wear your creation. While knitting patterns can include designs to incorporate, once you know how to knit from a counted cross stitch pattern, your possibilities become unlimited. Decide where on your sweater you would like to knit in a design. You may want one large picture on the front of a pull over sweater or on the back of a cardigan. You may prefer to place several smaller pictures on the sleeves, the collar or elsewhere. Why is this important? In order to select appropriate counted cross stitch patterns to incorporate into your sweater you are limited by the number of stitches in the knitting. Counted cross stitch assumes a canvass that is made up of little squares which correspond to the graph on the pattern. Your knitting creates the canvass, in effect. So, th
