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

[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.