Thanks to Theresa for more good questions! I do have a knitting font, one that I've been tinkering with for some time. Ages back, I purchased a knitting symbol font from XRX., Inc. (the folks who publish Knitter's Magazine). You can find them at The Knitting Universe. I don't know if the font is still available. I wasn't entirely happy with the font the way it was presented, as it had little boxes drawn around each symbol. I feel I have much more control with just the symbols themselves, inserted in the cells of an Excel worksheet (btw, I have my Excel row height set at 0.14" and my column width set at 0.15").
I have a program called Macromedia Fontographer (macintosh version), that I can use to tinker with fonts. I've done that, and come up with a font that has most of the symbols I need. I've cobbled it together from various symbol fonts, and it's still a work-in-progress. But it definitely is most helpful for lace charting.
Regarding my "shawlette-in-progress," I'm hoping to know the answers to Theresa's questions fairly soon. I've started on the lower border sections of the shawl, which include a 24-row section and a 20-row section. I'm at about row 20 of the first border section. At this point a pattern row and its return row (all purl except for the seed stitch borders) is taking about 45-50 minutes. So progress isn't speedy, but it's coming along!
And yes, Theresa, your question makes perfect sense, and is the very one I'm anxiously awaiting being able to answer for myself. I think the shawl may ripple around the shoulders, and it may not. With it on the needle, I can't quite tell yet. I was planning to put it on a thread and go ahead and block it, and then I got impatient and decided to just plunge ahead and see how it comes out!
Thanks to everyone who has said such nice things about the project. I don't really know if I'll manage to get the pattern ready for sale. I have a sock pattern I've been trying to write up for months now, and I'm not really sure pattern writing is my thing. But we'll see.
Listening to: When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin.
Posted by Shelda at September 4, 2005 01:28 PMOh please cobble the pattern for sale, it is SO BEAUTIFUL!!!
Posted by: Christina at September 4, 2005 04:12 PMThanks for answering my questions...or at least the ones you can to date! :o) I'm waiting "patiently" and if your theory works out on this, I too would love to buy this pattern if you offer it as it is really stunning.
Posted by: Theresa at September 4, 2005 09:42 PM