Sneak Peek at my pattern-making

'Cardi-3D' - It's what I'm calling my interpretation of EZ's Baby Surprise Jacket. The beauty of it is in the unique 3 dimensional knitting where you sculpt out the garment as you knit.

I have not yet read the original design but I am most certain that despite similar geometry, it has none of the cleverness that is EZ trademark.

I spent a good part of the day today developing a calculator for my recipe in PERL. User provides desired dimensions of the finished cardi and the stitch gauge. The formulas I developed converts this into complete knitting instructions and prints it out.

Here's a preview. The attributes listed below are stitch counts that are derived from user-given dimensions and the gauge:

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sleeve (X) = 36;
jwidth (W) = 90;
nwidth (N) = 30;
ndepth (D) = 13;
pwidth (P) = 6;
jlength(L) = 180;

                   |<---------------- Y ----------------->|
                            |<------- W ------->|
                                |<--- N --->|
                   |<-X/2->|        <-P->
             -     +--------.---n---p----p--n----.--------+ -     -
             ^     | \          |           |           / | D     ^
             |     |   \        n........]..n         /   | -     |
             |     |     \          [    ]          /     |       |
             X     |       \        [    ]        /       |       |
             |     +--------|       [    ]       |        |       |
             |     |        | \     [    ]     / |        |       |
             |     |        |   \   [    ]   /   |        |       |
             |     |        |     \ [    ] /     |        |       |
             v     |        |       [    ]       |        |       |
             -     +........|       [    ]       |........+
                            |       [    ]       |                L
                            |       [    ]       |
                            |........    ].......|                |
                            |         \  ]       |                |
                            |          \ ]       |                v
                            ========[====]========                -

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The script has been tested for accuracy. I will now proceed to knit out larger samples using the numbers derived from this tool and keep you posted.