How to read knitting charts
Confused? No wonder. Knitting books and charts assume you already know a lot of stuff. When I first started knitting, I assumed I could read a pattern… except I didn’t know I was supposed to read back and forth… you can imagine the disaster. So anyway, once you know how, it’s actually not that hard. Here is a good tutorial which will demystify the whole thing and get you knitting out of charts in no time: http://www.knitfoundry.com/tutorial/HowToReadCharts.pdf