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

Sat Feb 13 03:35:34 UTC 2010

Hi Susan:

Thanks for the description, but right now, I'm struggeling to get this 
off-set shell which I am told is easy.  I think the biggest part of crochet 
that hangs me up is counting the chains and relating them to the number of 
stitches made or what has to be made.  There must be some relationship 
between the chains and stitches worked otherwise couldn't there be some 
large number of chains left over or else not enough?

Anyway,  I've decided I did not like the feel of what I was trying to do, so 
have ripped it all out and will now attempt to follow the written directions 
and see if I can make it all work out.

Thanks again to you and Annette.

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 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Help With Crochet!!!

> Eileen,
>
> One thing you need to remember between crochetting and knitting is that 
> stitch counting is not the same with knitting and crochetting.  In a round 
> of crochetting, you don't necessarily have to keep up a certain number of 
> stitches, a pattern is worked out with the shape of stitches, height of 
> stitches and the open areas between stitches or clusters of stitches.  You 
> can have a simple shell, which is normally a cluster of three dc in a 
> single space or stitch, which is a flat cluster of stitches, narrow at the 
> base yet wider at the top and that looks like a shell.  This allows for 
> the wider spacing for the shell cluster to reach over to the next open 
> space for the next shell, yet the top edge of that row feels/looks solid. 
> You can also take that same shell cluster, leaving the last loop on the 
> hook of each dc which will leave three loops on your hook.  You then wrap 
> your hook and pull the yarn through all three loops which will draw the 
> upper part of the shell tight together and you have just made a popcorn 
> stitch.  This makes a raised cluster and then you usually follow that with 
> dc stitches before and after popcorn clusters.
>
> I am working on a throw that uses a modified shell cluster, which is 1 sc 
> and 2 dc in the same stitch.  This pulls the shell leaning to the left and 
> slightly puffed up and when you have done several rows, one row of shells 
> puffs upward and the next row of stitches back across puffs downward. 
> This causes the whole piece to resemble cobblestones.
>
> Susan
> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "eileen SCRIVANI" <etscrivani at verizon.net>
> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 12:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Help With Crochet!!!
>
>
>> Susan:
>>
>> No, at the beginning of the row, I dc in the fourth ch from the hook, 
>> then I dc in each of the next 7 chains.
>>
>> At the end of the row, when there are 9 chains left, I do 1 Dc in each of 
>> these individual chains and then chain 3 or 4 to turn and come back for 
>> the next row.
>>
>> The 36 sts/chains inbetween the initial 8 and ending 9 are skip 2 & 
>> double crochet 3 in the next chain/stitch (a multiple of 3 in my way of 
>> looking at it).  Again, I have totally changed the original directions 
>> because I was impatient to get started.  I do have lots of open work and 
>> am not sure if I am liking it or not.  Maybe I need to try it for a 
>> little longer before deciding to rip it out and start over.  I did send 
>> you the link to the original pattern if you want to look at it ... it's 
>> nothing like what I've worked out <LOL>.
>>
>> I was thinking that because one edge of the pattern has 8 stitches & the 
>> other edge nine, that is where the off-set comes in.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> 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 2:06 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Help With Crochet!!!
>>
>>
>>> Okay, looking at this a little closer, I'm confused about the beginning 
>>> and ending of this pattern row.
>>>
>>> 1.  Chain 56.
>>> Okay, no problem with that.
>>> 2.  Double crochet in fourth chain from hook, then DC 7 more ( a total 
>>> of 8 DC's so far).
>>> This is a different story.  I get the dc in the fourth chain from hook, 
>>> but where are you putting the next 7 dc stitches?  certainly not in the 
>>> same fourth dc, or are you putting 1 dc in the next 7 chains?
>>> 3.  * Skip 2 chains, and double crochet 3 in next chain; repeat from * 
>>> to last 9 chains and double crochet these last 9 stitches.
>>> Actually, I get where the 9 dc stitches on either end would give you a 
>>> flat surface while the shells will give you open clusters, however, you 
>>> would have to chain at least 3 or four, dc until you got back to the 
>>> shells,but I'm not sure if you may not need a single chain between each 
>>> shell in order for it not to be such a stretch as you go from shell to 
>>> shell.
>>>
>>> Once again, I'd like to know what the original pattern was suppose to 
>>> be.
>>>
>>> If you are working the pattern as you described, how does it feel to 
>>> you? does it look and feel like an intresting pattern to you or does it 
>>> feel like something is off and the piece wouldn't lay straight if you 
>>> are using it for ashawl?  If it feels okay to you and you can work this 
>>> pattern comfortably, then stick with it and see how itgoes.
>>>
>>> Susan
>>> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
>>>
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