Help:Stitch Patterns

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Contents 1 Finding the Knitting Stitch Patterns 2 Adding a Stitch Pattern to the KnitWiki 2.1 Check for Wanted Pages 2.2 Create the New Page 2.3 Edit the New Page 2.3.1 The Basic Code 2.4 Upload Your Images 3 Those Other Red Links 4 Other Articles of Interest

Finding the Knitting Stitch Patterns

All the stitch pattern categories in the KnitWiki are listed in the stitch category page

Individual stitch patterns can be found in each subcategory.

Adding a Stitch Pattern to the KnitWiki

Before adding a stitch pattern please check the appropriate subcategories in the stitch category page to make sure your stitch pattern is not already there.

If your stitch pattern isn't already there you can add it.

Check for Wanted Pages

First, check the wanted page category to see if there is a link to your stitch. If there is, click on the link and you will be taken to the edit section for that page.

Create the New Page

If there is no link to your stitch pattern you can create it as follows.

Type the following url into your browser:

http://knitting-and.com/wiki/

followed by the name of the stitch you would like to add. Please use capital letters at the beginning of each word, and an underscore or space between words.

I'm going to add Garter Stitch so my url looks like this:
 

This will take you to an intermediate page that asks you if you want to search for the page title in other pages, or edit the missing page. To edit the page, click on the link that looks like this: "".

Edit the New Page

Once you have clicked on the link a page will pop up that looks like this (using my Garter Stitch page as an example):

All the code for your stitch pattern will be typed in the box

The Basic Code

All stitch patterns in the KnitWiki are formatted with the following text. (For more information on what all those equal signs do, plus other ways to format your text and images, see Help:Formatting).

== Instructions ==

[[image:photo_of_your_stitch.jpg]]

Text instructions for knitting your stitch written in plain text. 

1st row: Knit

2nd row: Knit

etc

[[image:chart-for-your-stitch.gif]]
  
== Additional Information ==
 
Add information that people who try this stitch might be interested in, including links to articles
that are in the wiki, or new articles that someone else might like to write. See my example below 
for details. 
 
== External Links ==
 
Links outside the wiki that might be of interest. 
 
For example, here is a link to the home page of this website. It begins with the url and finishes         
with the words I want to link to that page:
 
[http://www.knitting-and.com Knitting-and.com home page]
 
Finally, every stitch pattern should end with this code so that it is listed correctly in the      
appropriate stitch pattern category: 
 
[[category:Stitch Category Name|Your stitch name typed in plain text]]

For a list of all stitch categories see the official list of stitch categories for the KnitWiki project

I'm going to add the pattern for Garter Stitch

In the edit box I have written the following code:

== Instructions ==
 
[[image:garter_stitch.jpg]]
 
'''Worked flat:''' 
 
Knit every row
 
'''Worked in the round:'''
 
1st round: Knit
 
2nd round: Purl
 
== Additional Information ==
 
[[Elizabeth_Zimmermann|Elizabeth Zimmermann]] is famous for designing many clever garments using 
only garter stitch, including the [[Rib_Warmer|rib warmer]], the [[Moebius_Vest|moebius vest]] and 
the [[Baby_Surprise_Jacket|baby surprise jacket]] 
 
== External Links ==
 
[http://www.knitting-and.com/knitting/patterns/shawls-shrugs/dishcloth-shawl.htm The Dishcloth Shawl], 
a triangular shawl worked entirely in garter stitch.
 
[[Category:Simple_Stitches|Garter Stitch]]

When I click save this creates the garter stitch page with links to upload the images. You can see that where I typed [[image:garter_stitch.jpg]] a picture has not yet appeared. It has become a red link to image:garter stitch.jpg. Red links mean that the page or image you have linked to does not yet exist.

Upload Your Images

To upload your image, click on the red link for the image you would like to upload. This will take you to the file upload page.

Using my garter stitch example, I clicked on the red link for image:Garter stitch.jpg and have been taken to the upload page:

Click the browse button and a window will pop up so that you can choose the file you want to upload. Make sure the extension on the file you are uploading, and the extension of the destination file are the same. For example, both my files are in jpg format.

Then, fill in the summary box with any information you think is important. You might want to put the source of the photo, who owns the copyright if someone else has given you permission to use their work, or a note about the photo. The image below shows how I filled in the form to upload the image for my Garter_Stitch page.

Click the upload file button and you will be taken to a new page showing your image with your comments underneath it, the history of the image (who has changed it and so on), and a list of all the pages that link to your image.

If your stitch pattern has a chart then you should repeat this process for the chart image as well. If not, you're finished!

Here is an image showing my finished page about Garter Stitch

Those Other Red Links

At the bottom of my garter stitch page you can see a lot of red links to Elizabeth Zimmermann, the rib warmer, the moebius vest and the baby surprise jacket

These links are red because the articles do not yet exist. Linking to articles that don't exist will make them appear in the wanted page category and if someone else writes the article it will already be linked to from your stitch pattern.

Linking to a nonexistent article is a good idea for several reasons:

1. If someone is looking for an article to write, but they don't know what to write about they can visit the wanted page category for inspiration
2. You won't have to keep checking the KnitWiki to see if someone has written something you should link to in your article
3. If someone is reading your article and they click on a link to a nonexistent page about a topic they know a lot about, they might decide to write a new article on that topic.

Other Articles of Interest

• Knitwiki:Copyrights
• Help:Formatting
• Help:Images
• Help:Knitting_Charts The official knitting chart format for the KnitWiki project
• Help:Links
• Help:Tables