Now, here we have a flat knitting chart for a 1x1 ribbing, but it's a mess! There are a lot of mistakes.

1. We have to ask ourself: what are we looking for? It's not on istoohard and there are no references to any external site, so probably there is a Steamgift or SGtools link hidden somewhere (but I also wrote that the GAs were open to all, so we could exclude the SGtools).

2. let's analyze the data we have:

   • it's a flat knitting chart
   • it's for a 1x1 ribbing
   • there are mistakes

3. Since i said there are mistakes, the next logical step is looking for them, so we have to find out how the chart is supposed to look like. There are three ways:

   • "wait, I know how to knit!" in this case, you are probably good to go. A 1x1 ribbing is super easy and i suppose basically everyone who knit knows how to do it, so i suppose you know how the chart should look like.
   • "google!" we know it's supposed to be a flat knitting chart for a 1x1 ribbing, so we can do a quick search on google
   • "no google/knitting knowledge way" that's hard, but i wrote the info about the chart for a reason. Anyways, one could notice that row 2, 5, 7, 8 and 10 are the same, and since there is no other way (without google) to know how the chart should look like, we could assume that those lines are correct and the others should be like them. I know, it's a stretch, but when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

4. Let's find those mistakes.

5. Now we have all our little mistakes... 5 lines with 8 mistakes each... can you see where i am going? If not, look at the chart. We have 2 stitches, knit [ ] and purl •, a symbol and an empty space... yes, we are speaking binary!

6. Let's translate it, shall we? Logically, we could hypothesize that the empty squares are 0s and the • are 1s, and we would be correct!. If for any reason you assumed the contrary (like for example if you corrected the chart before converting the symbols to numbers), your result made no sense, and i'm sure you tried the right way after converting it to text.

7. It's almost over! We just have to convert the binary to text and... here we have our five letters/numbers!

   • "Wait they don't work... i checked, i did everything right!"
     "Hey, wait a minute, i got some weird symbols.."
     If you googled flat knitting chart or something like that probably you found an image (something like this) that explained how to read a knitting chart. If you didn't, well, let's look again at the chart.

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