Pattern is charted from Beethoven’s Ode to Joy music using 7 different colors of Palette yarn. There are 5 color variations included.

If you look at any piece of music, there are only 7 possible notes (A through G) unless you count sharps, flats, and octave. I ignored all those and just charted the actual notes; quarter notes were one square, half notes were 2, so on and so forth. I also adapted the “music” so there be a max of 2 colors per row. The result is a 4 stitch repeat with colors changing each and every row (just about). the top of the tam does have a larger stitch increase, but still easy enough I took a lot of artistic license with the rows of “music” and transposed/repeated/mirror imaged and such in some places just because I wanted to. (Beethoven was not looking over my shoulder to see if I was cheating!!)

It is a super easy pattern to knit complicated only by all those yarn ends … lots and lots and lots of yarn ends!

I’m working on charting a few other songs, with the idea of being able to actually “play” the chart once complete. (The problem is that some music just isn’t pretty to me; not enough contrast, or too many notes per measure, or other problems which exceed my knitting skill to cipher.) I like color, though. I think if I had enough different yarn colors I could use a different color for each music possibility (flats, sharps, octave). That way the real music could be charted. I suppose I could use textured stitches -- like yarnovers or purls or twisted stitches and such… hmmm, maybe I need some better charting software!!