Hi Hayseed,
Thank you so much for offering, but it's not really the stitches that I need help with. It's understanding the abbreviations in a pattern. The pattern I have is a bit advanced for me I think. I had a look at a lot of knitting books on the internet yesterday. Knitting for Dummies was the only book that specifically says that it teaches you to read a pattern, with all it's funny abbreviations. I've ordered a copy, so hopefully it will be money well spent. My mum would be able to help, but she lives in QLD and I'm in SA.

Bye for now,