need help with chart reading in the round....

 Hello! I am new to chart reading and I want to knit a pair of socks from Interweave Favorite Socks book that uses charts.  I know you read each row from right to left when knitting in the round, but do the knits become purls on the even rows or do you do exactly what is charted?

Thanks for your help for this confused newbie!

Juliab

 If the chart is written for knitting in the round you knit it as written, reading all rows of the chart from right to left (in flat knitting, where all rows are charted, both public and reverse, you read the public rows from right to left and the reverse rows from left to right, interpreting the symbols according to the pattern notes).  While I haven't taken the plunge on this book yet, it's a fair bet that the charts are written for knitting in the round, so read them as charted from right to left.

You would transpose your stitches only if you were using a chart intended for flat knitting in a piece knit in the round for those rows intended to be reverse side rows.

Yes, pardon me, I hate the terms right and wrong side.  I use public and reverse, why you ask?  I have seen a poorly written pattern where the instruction read, "...on the right side of the right side of the right side....".  If that isn't confusing and unclear I don't know what is.

Thanks for the help.  That is what I thought, but I wanted to be sure.

Silly question, maybe, but...what does it mean when a chart indicates "no stitch"? Hmmm - can you explain??? Leslie

It means there is literally no stitch there. It's used to make charts rectangular when the rows have different numbers of stitches. Some lace patterns vary the stitch count from row to row for instance, and closed loop cables, which increase to start a loop, do the same. When you get to a "no stitch" symbol in the chart just go to the next stitch symbol in the row.