Open the Notepad or Wordpad
Applications as a doodle space
Type your Phrase/Name in the
first line
I did Joe Klinkhoff
Convert
the characters to HEX
Download the Basic Latin Chart. (you'll
need Acrobat Reader to open the file)
Print out page 2
Look up each character in your
message (including spaces and punctuation)
Write down each 2 digit HEX
code on the line below your name: break each word into
its own group of hex codes and make each space it own
"word"
My Name (Joe Klinkhoff)
becomes 4A6F65 20 4B6C696E6B686F6666
J = 4A, o = 6F,
e = 65 <space> = 20 (on page
three of the document from above) etc.
Convert
each group of characters to Binary
Open the Windows Calculator
(Start, All Programs, Accessories, Calculator)
Once open click from the menu
bar (View, Scientific)
In the upper left corner under
the "answer window" click the small radio button that
says HEX
Enter your first grouping of
digits (I entered 4A6F65 in that order my first name)
Convert to binary
In the upper left corner
two buttons to the right of HEX is a small button
that says BIN. Click it
Your text has been converted
(Mine has become 10010100110111101100101)
NOTE: There should be 8 digits for each
letter, My first name has three characters so
there should be 24 digits but the calculator only
returned 23 -- WHY
For most of our
english characters and conversions the
first zero is removed by the calculator
because it is not seen as necessary.
But to us it is!! So in front of each
conversion add a zero
In the case of spaces
(HEX 20) (Binary 00100000) add two!
Press Ctrl+C (Copy)
Swap to your text document and
press Ctrl+V (paste) add a space
Repeat for each "word"
My next two words are
space (a good way to be sure you don't forget
them and my last Name
Remove the spaces between each
Binary "word"
My full name (including the
space) becomes
01001010011011110110010101000000010010110110110001101001011011100110101101101000011011110110011001100110
Convert to K & P instructions
Print
your text document out
Now
just start typing the number of zeros and ones you
see separated by a space on the next line of your
document
These
number should add up to the total number of stitches
you should have which is equal to the number of characters
in your phrase/name X 8 (a good double check) Go back to the beginning and
precede each number with a K or P remember they
alternate always. If the first number is a zero
start with K if it is a 1 start with P
you'll
be surprised by how little you can reduce the
instructions
For ease in reading go to the
beginning of the K and P instructions and add a return
before each grouping so each line is one instruction (sooner
or later if its your name you'll know it by heart. . .
)
