Knit according to diagram

A chart in a knitting pattern shows each round and each stitch from the right side of the work. Read carefully what is indicated in your pattern but usually the diagram should be followed from bottom to top, from right to left. A box in the diagram represents a mesh.

When knitting back and forth, you knit every other round in the pattern from the right side and every other from the wrong side. When knitting from the wrong side, the diagram should be knitted in the opposite direction: i.e. from left to right. When knitting in the round on circular needles or double pointed needles, each row in the pattern is knitted from the right side, i.e. from right to left.

Next to the diagram are explanations for how each stitch should be knitted based on how the box in the diagram looks.