Dharma Trading Co. Homepage. The Sock Calculator. Knitting needle conversion chart from Laughing Hens. Knitty.com. I used to like row-by-row instructions.
They told me what stitches to make, and I made them. It was very simple. But then I bought a kit for a lace shawl, and the directions came as charts. No problem, I thought: I just covered up the rows I hadn't made yet, and pretended that each row of the chart was a set of instructions that someone had written out in a strange language. Annoying, but if I could learn what "k2tog" meant, I could learn that "/" meant the same thing. Convert a sweater pattern. Standard Yarn Weight System.