It's a good thing that I finally learned to read crochet charts.  One day a chart suddenly made sense when it did not before.  The CAL I'm working on is Lisa Gentry's Hooked on Stitches which is a stitch pattern a day for the month of November.   The written directions were a bit confusing so I got clarification from the chart.  Go me!!  

Now if only I could read knit charts.  It will happen someday.