Geiger 4

So there I was, knitting up the left front of Geiger.  Apart from underestimating the importance of counting and counting again, which meant unravelling a two inch section right at the start, the chart was very straightforward, and familiar by now.

What's so challenging about this pattern? I asked myself.

Then I arrived at the start of the armhole decreases and I realised.  The chart has numbered rows, but some whole sections have to be repeated two or even three times.  This means that numbers cannot be used to identify what happens in each row.  So the written instructions do not identify the rows by number, but just by a sequence which you have to follow.

All the decreases are done away from the edges, so that those for the front slope are in the same place as those for the pattern shifting.

There is a single sentence paragraph which contains different sorts of brackets and asterisks for which only the word "Advanced" will do.  That's advanced pattern reading; the actual knitting remains quite straightforward once you have understood what has to be done and how often.

I would bet that quite a few Geigers will remain as wips as knitters remain mind-boggled by the directions.