Charts-Is-Us

What you get

Our charts consist of a Cover page, a Symbol Cross-Reference page, and one or more graph pages. Each graph page contains a maximum of 80 stitches wide by 100 stitches high. Most charts are larger than this, in which case the chart is sectioned off into multiple pages. For example if a chart is 81 stitches wide by 100 stitches high, two graph pages will be required. The first page (we call the full page) will be 50 stitches across and the right page will be 31 stitches across. If the chart height is 101 stitches, two vertical pages are needed and the full page will be 60 stitches high and the bottom page will be 41 stitches high. Therefore, a chart 81 wide by 101 high will consist of 4 pages. The full page will be 50 wide by 60 high; the right page will be 31 wide by 60 high; the bottom page will be 50 wide by 41 high, and the remainder page will be 31 wide by 41 high. The width and height of the full page(s) will always be evenly divisible by 10 and the other pages will make up the difference. The size of the squares on all pages will always be the same so that pages may be laid out together on a flat surface so that the entire chart can be seen. Every tenth line on each chart is darker than the other lines to make it easier to count squares. On the cover page, pages are identified by a number going across the top and a letter going down the left side. For example, the 81 x 101 chart in this example will have its pages number A1, A2, B1, and B2. A1 will be the full page, A2 the right page, B1 the bottom page, and B2 the remainder page. In addition, each page will have every tenth column numbered at the top and every tenth row numbered on the left side of the page. All chart pages which contain the center column or center vertical line of the chart will have arrows at the top and bottom to mark the center and all pages which contain the center row or center horizontal line will have arrows on both sides of the page marking the center.

The chart pages are all printed in black and white but the Cover page contains a colored picture of the entire chart with separations between the page sections and numbers 1, 2, etc., across the top and letters A, B, etc., down the left side to identify the page sections, similar to grid markings on a road map. The Symbol Cross-Reference page associates the symbols used in the chart with the DMC color codes and color descriptions of the colors that the symbols represent. The list of colors is sorted according to the number of stitches which use the color, with the most used color at the top of the list and the least used color last. Following the description of each color, surrounded by parenthesis, is the count of stitches which use the color. This provides a way to roughly estimate how much floss will be needed for each color.