photos, a lace pattern. that was a relief.
but when i started knitting it, i realized that it was going to be more confusing than i had thought. the sweater is knit from the top down, so after knitting the neck the stitches are all marked off for the front, back, and both sleeves. increases happen at the beginning and end of each section. the ones at the end are easy, but i had to mark the beginning of each of the pattern repeats and count back to figure out what those stitches should be. for instance, i would count the number of stitches before my marker and say "now i 