Charting patterns using spreadsheets

One of the things that I remember growing up with my knit-crazy mother was when she would design her own patterns. She would get out this special paper (later I found out this was just a large piece of graph paper) and start plotting a pattern. She would then calculate her knitting pattern from that chart. Last week as I was trying to figure out how many rows I should knit on my KK Loom for a striped hat, I did the same thing, only I moved the process to a more 21st century solution – the spreadsheet. Attached is the spreadsheet that I created that can be used as a template for the round knitting looms (each tab references one of the round looms).

Attachment: kk_round_grids.xls