I've finished my cushoin cover after a minor blip. I just need to make it up.
I;'ve started my RYC wrap, Coccoon, from the classic landscape range. The pattern is written in a way I'm not used to at all and I dont like it!
It reads more like a book than a knitting pattern.
I like my patterns listed, row by row, in fool proof, idiot form.

This particular part I find a bit confusing, it may be because I'm tired.
I quote...
Inc 1 st at each end of next and foll 5 alt rows, {fine so far} then on 2 foll 4th rows, then on 2 foll 6th rows

Scuse me? I would have much prefered :row 5 knit, row 6 purl row 7 inc 1 st at end ... blah blah
To RYC's credit, the next part is easy enough

Cont straight until wor meas 81 cm, ending with RS facing for next row

There is a bit of sectioning (as in the knitting, not me):hihi: where you have to divide stitches and leave on holders, for the purposes of arm holes, but then it goes back to the confusing increasing and decreasing on rows that dont make sense!

I'm about to start a course for my degree on the English Language, its origins, and differences, and it suggests keeping a cuttings file.
I reckon I should add differnet styles of knitting patterns cos they're in a language all of their own sometimes!:hihi: :confused: :hihi:

I'm sure it's a deliberate ploy by the knitting intelligentsia to keep the rest of us out :hihi: .

I always have a notebook by my side when working a pattern, where I have to write the row numbers and exactly what I have to do on each row, then tick them off as I go along. If I didn't do that, I'd spend more time ripping the work out than following the patterns.

I always find that I do get into the strange language after a while, especially when I've done a few big patterns one after the other. It does take a while, though, if I've only been knitting little things for some time.