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

Sun Feb 14 16:22:02 UTC 2010

Annette,

Oh Lord, you've got that one right!

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: Sunday, February 14, 2010 5:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Help With Crochet!!!

> Susan,
>
> I am right there with you and ripping out knitting and crocheting.  My
> family says that if I would stop ripping out my work, I could provide
> hand-made items to the entire nation.  Smile!
>
> Annette
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Susan Roe
> Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 12:18 AM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Help With Crochet!!!
>
> Eilene,
>
> Trust me, I have pulled out so much knitting and crochetting when learning
> something new or working on my own pattern creation that when my husband
> sees me with a project in my lap and a heep of yarn unravelling beside me 
> on
> the sofa, he just shakes his head and asks me what the project is going to
> be this time around.  LOL!
>
> 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 8:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Help With Crochet!!!
>
>
>> 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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