Every now and then, someone writes to me and says something along the lines of "why don't you use the standard chart symbols?"  More often, I'll see someone say on ravelry some variation of "gee, I like her patterns, but I wish she'd use standard chart symbols."  The only thing I can think in response is what standard chart symbols? There is really no such thing.  Not even a little. In fact, chart symbols (and charts in general) are staggeringly different from one book to the next.  I pulled a handful of books off my shelf, they all use different [...]