Help with chart-reading?

[jackandahat]

I suspect this is going to be one of those where the answer is so obvious I'll kick myself, but I've looked and looked and I can't work it out.

I'm trying to learn to read charts, and I want to make this jumper. So I'm writing out the charts and swatching and I've done just fine up until I hit row 15 or chart 3.

There's 2 symbol there I can't understand. One looks like C3FP but all-white, instead of white with a grey box. C3F is all-white, but doesn't have the extra little lines. The other, likewise, but C3BP/C3B.

I've asked elsewhere and been told "Just look at the key", but I don't see it on the key - so I'm feeling pretty stupid here, can anyone help?

Edit: It's been suggested that the designer just copied rows 1-14 and turned them all white, rather than editing the symbols, and that I should just C3F/C3B, no purling. Which sounds sensible to me - does this seem plausible?

Comments

[sedge]

You might want to try swatching just that section with the different possibilities and see what it looks like - whichever one makes you happiest would probably be the way to go.

But seriously, if you suspect an error, you should contact the designer if you feel up to it - many people don't, and designers almost always want to know. Knitty will fix the mistake in the pattern if there is one and then other people won't be confused.

(And it probably wasn't designer error - magazines like Knitty produce the final charts.)

[jackandahat]

*nods* I'll probably have a play around with it, it's just I'm slow enough and new enough with cables/charts I felt I'd learn more getting a few people's opinions. It's been educational.

I figured because the pattern was old (spring 2008) that if there was an error someone would have caught it by now - but it could just be that people caught it, fixed it, and didn't tell anyone. Once I've got past that point in knitting and confirmed, I'll send an E-Mail double-checking with Knitty.

(Also educational: I did not know this! I followed the link to Knitty from the designer's very awesome page.)

[sedge]

Definitely a good thing to check with other people first!

You would think that someone would have reported a mistake by now, but all too often, knitters think it's them and not the pattern or else, as you guessed, they just fix it and go on without telling anyone.

[jackandahat]

And everyone thinks "Surely someone else would have done it..." like I just did.