Illusion knitting - anyone ever designed their own chart?

The software must not have been for knitting -- knitting stitches are taller than they are wide. Sounds like the chart you made had squares, which are OK for cross-stitch and probably crochet.

If you search online for knitting graph paper, you'll see what I mean. Here's a tutorial for making some with Microsoft Excel: http://twistedspinster.net/2004-02/GraphPaper.html And here's a great article about charts at Knitty.com: http://www.knitty.com/issuewinter04/FEATcharts.htm...

There are a couple of Yahoo Groups for illusion knitting:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/illusion_knitting

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/illusionknittingandm...

Perhaps they can help.

The software you are using is probably for counted cross stitch and is disigned for a pattern on 14x14 Ada, which is 14 stitches x 14 stitches to equal one sqare inch of fabric. check to see of the software has an adjustment for other fabrics like 10 x 10 Ada.

Or knit a sample and see how many stitches you have across for 1 inch and how many rows equal one inch. ( you will probably find that you have more rows to make it 1 inch tall than one inch wide which is what is causing the destorted finished picture.) adjustments have to be made in the pattern or in the size of your needles to make the stitch count closer to equal (rows and stitches)for the pattern to turn out right.

Yes Ive had some trouble doing it to i cant get to the right size! Its way to advanced for us blonds