Reading Fair Isle charts can be easier than reading other types of charts for one big reason. In Fair Isle knitting there's only one stitch used, the knit stitch for those projects done in the round. Most Fair Isle knitting is done on circular or four or five double pointed needles thus one is always knitting on the right side. Charts of this type are read to make the change in colours and not to determine the stitch type which changes if you are on the right or wrong side of the project. (This will be clearer once I talk about lace chart knitting.) Below is a photo of the rather used looking Fair Isle chart from Selbu Modern. (You'll remember it was easy to transport because this project is small, so the pattern was folded and unfolded often as it moved from travel to home to travel and back.) If you look at the chart very closely you'll see that I have added four red vertical lines. These lines mark off 5 stitches and as you can see the pat...
Getting it together one stitch at a time.