Lysdexic Knitter
So anyone who knows me, knows that I am a very highly functioning dyslexic. It’s fun. It makes my handwriting illegible , my spelling hilarious, I have no idea the difference between Left and Right and attention span nil. The upshot is I am one smart cookie, a very creative and visual thinker and have developed pretty decent coping skills. I have always been a little leery of knitting charts. All those dots and dashes just look like one confusing puzzle to me. However, I was going through a knitting slump. I needed a challenge, and felt like I wanted to add a little spicy lace in my life. I came out with some pretty dern clever tricks.
The first one is a super simple lace patten for socks. I got out my coloring pencils and colored in the Knits vs the Slip Slip Knits so I can very cleary see the difference. This pattern looks super simple= but trust me- I already screwed it up and had to rip out the sock.
The second one was my Pinion hat the pattern was pretty complicated because each line was different. Fortunately all the shaping is mostly just knit2 tog so that I didn’t have to worry about telling the difference between K2tog and SSK. The problem is is that there were a lot of blank spaces that represented knit stitches. I couldn’t tell you if it was one stitich or 7, that makes me go all crossed eyed and buggy. I very carefully counted the blank spaces and wrote it down in the last line. This way my eye could just skip to the last line to see how many stitches I needed to knit.
Finally- the tool that I use MOST is one of those magnetic boards that cross stitches use. It has little black magnets that I can use to mask out the line I am working on. It works awesome. I have been collecting the boards so I have enough for my various projects!
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