You say tomato, I say tomahto

A post on the message boards today was asking about the instructions from a Rowan pattern that uses the abbreviation yfwrd, which means yarn forward. Simple, right? Not so simple. Rowan is a company out of England and therefore uses British standards in their patterns. Yarn forward in a British pattern may actually mean what we in the USA term as yarn over. Or wrapping the yarn around the needle to create an additional stitch. It may take a bit of trial and error, but the consensus here is that the pattern writer does mean for you to wrap the yarn around the needle in this pattern.

Sarah