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

Sat Feb 13 05:14:04 UTC 2010

Thanks Annette.

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- 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 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Help With Crochet!!!

> Great description  Susan.
>
> Annette
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Susan Roe
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 8:30 PM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> 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!!!
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>
>> 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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