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Before you start to knit, read through the instructions to be sure that you understand the abbreviations and you can cope with all the techniques needed. Abbreviations are used for many of the repetitive words that occur in the instructions. See the box opposite for a list of the most frequently used abbreviations; any additional abbreviations are given with the instructions. Some abbreviations look complex but make sense once you realise that they explain a series of actions such as skpo for slip one stitch knitwise, knit one stitch, pass the slipped stitch over.

Square brackets are used to show how many times a series of stitches should be worked or to clarify working a group of stitches. Square brackets are also placed around stitch counts. Asterisks indicate where to repeat instructions from or which part of the instructions to work again.

Check that you know which measurements you are working to. The amount of movement room varies according to the design so if you are not sure which size to make, check the actual measurements given against an existing garment that fits you well.

Where instructions for different sizes are given, the smallest size is given first, followed by the other sizes in round brackets, separated by colons. If there is only one figure, it refers to all of the sizes.

ABBREVIATIONS
beg	beginning
cont	continu(e)(ing)
dec	decreas(e)(ing)
foll	following
inc	increas(e)(ing)
k	knit
kfb	knit into front and back of stitch
m1	make a stitch by lifting strand between stitches and knitting into the back of it
p	purl
patt	pattern
rem	remaining
rep	repeat
RS	right side
sl	slip
skpo	slip one knitwise, knit one, pass slipped stitch over
st(s)	stitch(es)
st-st	stocking stitch
tbl	through back of loop(s)
tog	together
WS	wrong side
yo	yarn over needle to make a stitch