Knitting
Stitches are wider than they are tall
A typical stocking-stitch gauge is around 20 stitches and 28 rows to 10 cm, so each stitch is roughly 1.4 times wider than it is tall. Knit a square chart as-is and the motif comes out squashed vertically.
Gridely's cells are square, so compensate before converting: in the image step, turn off 'keep aspect ratio' and increase the height in rows by your row-to-stitch ratio. With the gauge above, an image 50 stitches wide should be about 70 rows tall (50 × 28 ÷ 20). The chart will look stretched on screen and knit up in proportion.
Fair Isle, intarsia or mosaic?
Fair Isle (stranded) knitting carries both colours across the back, so keep each row to two colours and avoid floats longer than about five stitches. Intarsia uses a separate bobbin for each block of colour, which suits large pictures with many colours but few changes per row. Mosaic knitting uses slipped stitches and works from a two-colour chart.
Reading the chart
Charts are read from the bottom right corner. Right-side rows are read right to left, wrong-side rows left to right. When knitting in the round every row is a right-side row, so read each one right to left. Choose the matching reading mode and the reader will follow it for you.
