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Hi I am just new to graphing an find it hard to do them as no written instructions. Can I ask if anyone knows we're or how to get a graph written pattern?
Donna
Believe it or not...I've done a similar thing!
I didn't have to worry about a different pattern on both sides, though, which means I'm not sure if what I did will help you, sorry to say.
What I did was to go around all of the
sides with a sc for a border through both thicknesses, as if they
hadn't been crocheted in the round. That gave the shaping
a start by defining the sides.For the inside of the blanket, since it wasn't a different pattern on both, my next solution was to crochet "quilt" it. You can make a simple crochet stitch by pulling chains through from one side to the other. The problem is that with a defined pattern on both sides, if you use a different color of yarn for one side and a "quilting" chain stitch, you can detract from your pattern.
Is the pattern so defined on both sides
that a chain pulled through one side would detract from one or
both?If so, maybe a better idea would be to "tie" it off in regularly defined spots. One side would have what for all intents and purposes is a loop, the other side would have knotted yarn. It doesn't look as bad as it sounds...I have a small blanket which was made that way. It isn't crocheted, it's sewn. It's a flannel blanket, and the person who made it held it together by using yarn to loop through one side and knotted it on the other, e.g., they "tied" it off. (If we hadn't moved somewhat recently, I'd take a picture of the blanket for you, but I'm not sure where it landed.)
One other thing of which you should be aware...working in the round, unless you're stepping up on each round, will spiral. So you may have to fudge your top end! Luckily, the sc border can even it out.
Hope that helps...I feel your pain!
Sherry,
While I don't envy you your summers of heat and humidity, I do envy your mild, short winters.
Ugh, a blizzard on Mother's day is way late in the season!
Glad you didn't have to go out in freezing rain.
And that nothing would have stayed
frozen, anyway! It's nice that you have the help...sigh, and not so nice that you have to explain everything in great detail.
LOL, though...do you rent them out?
I posted two FREE crochet patterns for Kindle for today...grab them before they're gone! (Note: you do not need to have an actual Kindle. If you have a smartphone, you can download a Kindle reader app for FREE...if all you have is a PC, you can download to your PC...and I believe there may also be a way now of completely bypassing any kind of reader app to read directly online - though please don't quote me on that, as I'm not sure. I find the PC reader to be quite decent for pattern content...since I don't own a Kindle, I can't say how well it works...but I would think a smaller screen would make patterns kind of difficult to read.)
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