[Nfb-krafters-korner] Help With Crochet!!!

[Susan Roe]

What is the original crochet pattern?

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "eileen SCRIVANI" <etscrivani at verizon.net>
To: "Nfb-krafters-korner" <Nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 10:38 AM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Help With Crochet!!!


> Hi Crocheters:
>
> I have a few questions about a shawl I'm attempting to crochet and am not 
> sure how bad what I started doing will be in crochet technicality ...
>
> I was at a prayer shawl meeting on Tuesday and one of the other group 
> members started telling me how to do a "simple," but fancier crochet 
> stitch.  Well, I'm very slow going at crochet at this point, so only did a 
> chain of 56 during the meeting and started working on it at home.  here is 
> what I thought the pattern was going to be:
>
> 1.  Chain 56.
> 2.  Double crochet in fourth chain from hook, then DC 7 more ( a total of 
> 8 DC's so far).
> 3.  * Skip 2 chains, and double crochet 3 in next chain; repeat from * to 
> last 9 chains and double crochet these last 9 stitches.
>
>
> Well, here's the thing, either my friend remembered the directions wrong, 
> or more likely, I some how came up with this on my own! <SMILE>  Okay, now 
> I have the real written directions and they are much more complicated, at 
> least for me, than what I have been doing.  I'm not sure I like the feel 
> of what I've produced, but it's easy enough for me to work at this point. 
> Do you think what I have been doing will turn out to be a 
> sloppy/unattractive look?
> In the "real" directions I see that after some of the skips they are 
> chaining, but I hate chaining because those are the things I have trouble 
> going into and counting.  This is supposed to be an offset shell stitch 
> and in total I wind up with 53 double crochets in 1 row.  This one row 
> just keeps repeating on every row until the desired length.
>
> Thanks for any input & suggestions.
>
> Eileen
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