Patt this gal on the back...!

Chart by A.B.I have an 8th grade knitter who has not only created her first knitting chart, but has turned it into a hat, all the while learning to turn the chart to hat using Fair Isle Knitting.I beam with pride. It's incredible.And today, she asked if I could so kindly convert this brilliant pattern she created into a real life pattern that she can pass out to all her fellow knitting students in the last class for Term II! What an incredibly generous knitter she is!I am doing just that tonight. And while A.B. scanned her graph paper and pencil chart in, I tried to convert it to an actual graph using Knit Pro Knit 2.0, an amazing freely available Web 2.0 tool that allows you to convert any old knitting pattern into a graphed version. Incredible, too!Just simple upload your file and it will spit back a fully downloadable pdf chart. But since A.B.'s chart was sketched up in pencil, the corresponding graph is a little "light" on the grayscale.Since I make my living as a technology instruction librarian specializing in ways to use Web 2.0 tools in the classroom, this is a pretty excellent example of doing that in a class I also teach in school--knitting. It's amazing what's available on the web to enhance all types of experiences.While this one certainly isn't perfect for Knit 2.0 (the image file will have to be enhanced) it's pretty remarkable. We'll try to convert it again soon! For now, back to completing this pattern for A.B. to pass out tomorrow!File Under: Color me absolutely inspired by my genius go getting students! Watch out world, A.B. will be the next designer on Ravelry in no time!