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About the Charts
I consider these charts as suggestions for scarves, throws, afghans, blankets, cushions, borders, felted bags etc.
I have used plain yarns for clarity in the images, but you could use variegated yarns for richer color effects.
Techniques include stranded knitting, increasing & decreasing, double increases & decreases, trapping, yarn-overs, and cables. Some of the motifs are probably suitable for intarsia.

Information on the techniques is listed below. Please note that my use of symbols is not entirely conventional.

About the Symbols
 knit 2 stitches together.
 slip 1 st onto rh needle as if to knit. Knit 1 stitch and pass slipped st over.
L Left-slanting increase: insert the left-hand needle, from the front, under the bar between the last stitch worked and the first stitch on the right-hand needle, and knit through back of loop.
R Right-slanting increase: insert the left-hand needle, from the back, under the bar between the last stitch worked and the first stitch on the right-hand needle, and knit through front of loop.
 centred double decrease: slip 2 st onto rh needle as if to knit. Knit 1 stitch and pass slipped stitches over.
 double increase: make a right-slanting increase, knit the stitch, and make a left-slanting increase.
 yarn over: bring yarn to the front of the work between the needles and back over the rh needle to form new stitch.
 purl on right side, knit on wrong side.

Any further technical information is contained in the PDF files, where relevant.

Downloading Charts
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Printing Charts
The charts are provided in PDF format and can be read and printed with a suitable PDF reader such as Adobe Reader, which can be downloaded for free here or by clicking on the Get Adobe Reader button at the bottom of this page. Each chart has a cover page with full color pictures, followed by the chart itself (including instructions where relevant) in black and white on the subsequent page(s). All pages will print at good quality on either a color or black and white desktop printer in landscape orientation and using A4 or US Letter size paper. Should you wish to print onto smaller paper, select Page Scaling: Fit to Printable Area in the Adobe Reader Print dialog box.

Using PayPal
Payments are processed through PayPal. If you do not have a PayPal account, you do not need to sign up for a PayPal account and can pay using Visa, MasterCard, American Express or Discover. After you have successfully completed your PayPal payment, you will be redirected from the PayPal Payment Confirmation page to the knit/lab download page, from where you can download the chart. The download page will remain accessible for 24 hours and you are advised to bookmark it, should you wish to return to download the chart later. In the unlikely event that you are not automatically redirected to the download page, clicking on the Return to Merchant link on the PayPal Payment Confirmation page will take you there.