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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by knitting fairy[/i] [br]I recently discovered something. If you are knitting from written directions, and if what you are knitting has a certain direction it needs to face you should follw the directions from right to left instead of from left to right. Especially words, otherwise you have a mirror image of the word. I knew that when you read a chart you should read from left to right if youre knitting left handed. It never occured to me till a couple days ago to apply that logic to written directions too. I was knitting a dishcloth with a tea cup on it and the handle came out on the left instead of the right and I knew what had happened. Then when I was knitting one that had words on it I realized I would have to switch the pattern around or the words would be backwards. SO I had to rewrite the pattern. for example: instead of, say, K3, P5, K2, P25, K3 I turned it around to read K3, P25, K2, P5, K3 I came to one row that had K4, (MB, K1, MB, K3) 3 times, P3. At first I thought my brain would explode. Then decided not to over think it and just turned it to read P3, (K3, MB, K1, MB) 3 times, K4. It turned out perfectly. Anyhow, just thought I would share in case my experience ( or the lack there of) helps anyone who hasn't discovered this yet. Knitting Fairy "Learning how to knit was a snap.It was learning how to stop that nearly destroyed me." Erma Bombeck It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for. ~Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.