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

[eileen SCRIVANI]

If you want to look at the original Crochet pattern, it can be found at:

http://crochet.about.com/od/clothingforwomen/a/offshellprshawl.htm


Eileen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Roe" <dogwoodfarm at verizon.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Help With Crochet!!!


> 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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