A Pattern Language

I’ve figured out the pattern for the Norah Gaughan sweater, sort off, although I‘m a terrible counter and extra stitches have a habit of suddenly appearing, messing up the whole thing. When you first start knitting a complicated pattern it's all about trying to get the stitches right, blindly following the charts, god I hate knitting charts, hoping it turns out.

Knitting charts are full of arcane symbols representing each stitch. You read them from right to left starting at the bottom. Every odd row is a right side row and every even row is a wrong side row. Whatever you knit on the right side row you have to knit the exact opposite on the wrong side row. I know, its stupidly confusing.

The Norah Gaughan sweater uses three patterns, repeated across each row plus there is decreases and increasing for shaping. I have to write down every row after I've finished it so when I put the knitting down I know exactly where I am when I come back to it.

The only thing keeping me going is, I want the end resutlt.