scarf update and chart making method

so heres what i have so far on the Ghibli scarf

 For anyone thats wondering, heres what i have;
From bottom to top
Totoro and mini totoros from My Neighbour Totoro
A soot sprite from both spirited away and my neighbour totoro
the symbol on Nausicaa's dress from Nausicaa and the valley of the wind
no face from spirited away
some small fish for ponyo
the flags from up on poppyhill
jiji from kiki's delivery service
and (not that you'd tell) the start of the mask from princess mononoke

I got the charts for totoro and no face from ravelry, when i post the completed scarf I'll add all the charts i made and links to charts i used.

I discovered an easy way to make knitting charts (i bet someone else has already discovered this but thought i'd share it anyway)
find a image you want to make a chart from (i found most online chart makers either rubbish giving you a blurred image or make the chart the wrong size) copy and paste the image into microsoft publisher.
Resize it if it's too small (also picking an image that is a sillhouette or at least very simple is much easier)
then insert a table. My scarf is 41 sts wide (of course for the double knitting technique there is actually 82sts on my needle to knit the front and back at the same time but you only need one sides amount of sticthes if that makes sense)
the important bit with the table is that you select the entire table and unselect the grow to fit text option. this means you can resize the table to the shape of your chart

once you've done this just move the table over the image, resize making sure the cells on the table are square and not rectangular and then start to fill the cells with the fill tool. It can take a while but its a much easier way than trying to draw it out by hand (in my opinion)
the last thing to remember is make sure you put borders on the table so you can see the squares. I forgot to do this for 2 of mine and had to go back in and add them (which was a pain in the backside and took ages!)

so here are some of the results using the method above!

Robot from castle in the Sky

Marco (or Porco) from Porco Rosso

Turnip head from Howls Moving Castle

I can't wait to get them done on the scarf! I still have quite a list of characters to add and am almost at the end of the first lime green ball of wool (which will be the point at which i turn the characters so they are not upside down when wearing the scarf (i hope). I am guessing that if I do have one way and half the other then it'll work out! But no matter what happens I will share it on here. I am already madly in love with this scarf! I will definitly be knitting another one! Its been hard work and I'm not even half way there yet but every second has been worth it!
Hope you guys enjoyed my little update and feel free to use my charts, just post a photo of your work in the comments for me :)