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

[eileen SCRIVANI]

Hi Annette:

I'm the one who isn't understanding.  I suppose I find crochet confusing 
because it seems that the stitch counts are not like they are in knitting. 
For instance, where I had skipped 2 chains and then worked 3 double crochet 
in the next chain, I viewed this as increasing 2 stitches for the 2 chains I 
had skipped.  So at the end of the row, I have been making up for all the sk 
2 chs.  I also didn't realize that the initial chain 3 or chain 4 at the 
beginning/end of a row counted as a new double crochet stitch.  I have been 
thinking that the turning chains were just a way of building up a length to 
go up to the next row because double crochet stitches are taller than a 
single crochet.  I've read through volume 1 of Crocheting in Plain English 
by Maggie Righetti and I thought I was ready to move onto something a little 
more advanced ... maybe not.

Thanks.  I'll look over what you wrote and the original pattern again and 
try to figure out the math behind it.

Thanks.

Eileen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Annette Carr" <amcarr1 at verizon.net>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Help With Crochet!!!


> Ok, what I'm about to say is just a guess, but hear goes with what I think
> the pattern might be based on what you wrote and calculating the math.
>
> Chain 56
>
> Double crochet in 4th chain from begin.
>
> Double crochet in next 7 chains (Now you have a total of 9 double crochets
> because you count the first 3 chains that you skipped as 1 double crochet.
>
> Repeat, skip 2 chains and double crochet in next chain.   (This will give
> you a space after your first set of double crochet followed by 1 double
> crochet. There will not be a space between the 12 skip 2 chain double
> crochet sequence.  This will place this last double crochet right before 
> the
> next double crochet in the next step.)
>
> 9 double crochet in last 8 chain.  (You will have a total of 10 crochet in 
> a
> row at this end of the work.
>
> Start next row by chain 3 to count as first double crochet, then double
> crochet in next 8 chains to begin repeating what you did in row 1.
>
> Now the glitch I think is that you need to do 2 chain stitches for each 
> skip
> 2 chains, other wise your shawl will get smaller and smaller with each row
> you finish.  So I think the repeat sequence should be:
>
> Chain 2, double crochet in 3rd chain from your last double crochet, repeat
> 11 more times.
>
> HTH,
> Annette
>
>
>
> Let me know if you think I miss-understood something.
>
> Annette
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of eileen 
> SCRIVANI
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 12:39 PM
> To: Nfb-krafters-korner
> 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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