knitting help - how do I tell what is the front side of the left front????

[Mercedes]

I've never been on this topic before but I desperately need some knitting advice.

After 20 years away from knitting I'm doing a cardigan for my dd. I've done the back and am now on the left front and can't work out the shapings and which side I decrease/increase on. Part of the problem is I've never done knitted a cardigan before - it was always jumpers.

It's a short bolero sort of cardigan which curves up at the front. I can't work out whether what I'm knitting is the left side of the cardigan as I look at it or the left side as I wear it.The pattern says with right side facing (for left front)
'increase as set at front edge on next row -

Cos I can't work out what left front means I can't work out whether the front edge is the right hand side of the knitting or is the left handside when I get to the end of the row if you see what I mean?
Please help my dd thinks I'm the most amazing Mum to knit her somehting.

It's the left side as you wear it mercedes

I'm doing a wrap cardi for my dd atm and I found it useful to write out the increases and cross off as I did each row, eg "inc 1 st in 1st and every foll 6th row" I would write as:

1 inc
2
3
4
5
6
7 inc

etc

much easier than trying to count the rows!

right - so that means as I knit it the front edge is on the right side of the right facing knitting.

That does make sense. I phoned my mum and she said the opposite so as I knitted the increases / decreases and the shape was all wrong.
Thanks I'll rip out the shapings and start again.

i do the same as miaou - it idiot-proofs it for me, I'd never keep count otherwise

is it knit a row - purl a row pattern? if so it helps a bit, like M. says it's as you wear it.
If it's all clever stuff and fancy patterns it's beyond me, I'm off

good luck