Help needed - experienced Crocheters

[immersedingrace]

I'm working on this capelet and having trouble understanding the diagram. It's in UK terms and I've translated those (in red) satisfactorily, it's just the diagram that the pattern says to follow w/o further direction. The pattern says to work from top to bottom but I'm not sure where the stitches are to occur. for example, on the first row, I did one DC (in each DC of the previous row) and one CH. For the second row, I did 2 CH's, DC in the CH 1 space of the previous row, and chained three. I'm reading the rest of that row as doing 5 of the DC/CH3 then DC/CH5 then 5 DC/CH3 then CH3 (repeating the pattern around)

Does this sound like I'm doing it correctly or am I reading the diagram wrong. I'm going to write to the company to make sure, but wanted quicker results Thanks for the help.

Explanations to the pattern diagram
= 1 ch = 1ch
= 1 dc = 1sc
= 1 tr = 1 dc
= 1 picot (=3 ch, crochet 1 dc (1 sc) into the 1st of these 3 ch)

Diagram

DROPS number 94-10
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[Celticflower]

Are you reading the diagram from the top or the bottom? It looks like you follow the written directions for the solid part at the top then start following the diagram at the arrow. So it wiould be 5 stitches ( 1 in each stitch and chain space) followed by a chain of 9 then 9 more stitches. Part of the problem I am having is with the diagram itself -- the symbols are different than the ones I am used to.

 

[immersedingrace]

Are you reading the diagram from the top or the bottom? It looks like you follow the written directions for the solid part at the top then start following the diagram at the arrow. So it wiould be 5 stitches ( 1 in each stitch and chain space) followed by a chain of 9 then 9 more stitches. Part of the problem I am having is with the diagram itself -- the symbols are different than the ones I am used to.

I'm reading the diagram top to bottm. The symbols were ok for me as there's a key and I've never used a diagram with ANY symbols so that part I got, it's just a matter of top to bottom vs bottom to top and where exactly each stitch is supposed to go in the previous row.

 

[immersedingrace]

Ok, I think I got it. In reading from the bottom of the diagram up, I'm assuming that the original line of dashes is the previous row and not CH's as originally thought.

The symbols are as follows a dash = 1 chain; the T = 1 single crochet; the vertical line = 1 double crochet; and the circle is a picot which = 3 CH, 1 sc in 3rd CH.

The original diagram was written in swedish. We'll see if this works.