[Nfb-krafters-korner] Pattern tips

[Terry Knox]

Great tip and your granson's cardigan sounds wonderful. Please, since this is your first attempt, will you please post and let us know how it turns out, this is so encouraging.
Terry K

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From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Catherine jacobse via Nfb-krafters-korner
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 3:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Pattern tips

Hi,
Sharing tips is always good.
I have patterns copied in documents on my computer. The current project is a crochet sweater for 18 month old; the number of chains and stitches at end of each row is the third set.  Getting confused yet?  So I don’t get confused  I duplicate  the document and call it current project (or whatever makes sense at the time)  Then I delete all the directions and numbers that do not apply to my current project for  18 month old sweet baby boy. OK my little grandson.
This may sound like a lot of work and time: this is my first attempt at  crocheting an item of  clothing so I need to be anal.  It’s  better to set this up correctly the first time.  Plus by the time I’m finished doing all this copying, reading  and deleting, I have the pattern memorized!  LOL
The other tip that is working for me is having the yarn in a small plastic garbage container, like found in a   bathroom.  I keep my hook, yarn and completed pieces in this container - pick up & go.  When crocheting the yarn is not unraveling all over the place = trip!  There’s also a  piece of cardboard cut to the length of the item and notches for the width. 
Happy hooking,
Chatty Catherine   .    
 On Apr 24, 2016, at 10:05 AM, Terry Knox via Nfb-krafters-korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Over the past months some tips have been shared by crafters on list. 
> Joyce shared to use an index card for a pattern tool for cutting and I 
> know there were others that I should have kept along the way. I will 
> now! Here is one for those of you who need to start a pattern file for 
> measuring. Since I crochet a lot of afghans I am always looking for 
> the length and wideth of a throw, single bed etc. So I will share how 
> I do this. In a zip lock bag that is in my file box I have one length 
> of yarn the size I make for a single bed, with a index card attached 
> on the top that has a pen friend lable that says, "length, single 
> bed". Just one piece of scrap yarn that I take out of file and place 
> with yarn I am using as I work on the afghan. When finished it goes 
> back in pattern file. I do the same on wideth. There is not someone 
> here all the time to ask, so I always have this on hand. Becky, I use 
> this method with curtans also. I measure the window length with the 
> scrap yarn, mark it with a card and have it on had to review as I 
> work. This might help your knitting machine as you can not remove your project. Hope you all enjoy this little help.
> 
> Terry K
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