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Pattern changes

So, you want to alter the current crochet pattern you are working on. You desire to change a stitch, add rows or rounds and change border design. Someone who does this is often called a DESIGNER. If you have ideas like these pursue them to the end! Create something that is uniquely you. Personalizing for someone you care about is a good thing.

CAUTION HOWEVER KNOW THAT YOU ARE ENTERING DANGEROUS TERRITORY

The simplest to more complex changes you want to make will effect the outcome of the pattern design you are spring-boarding from. Where will those changes likely take you? Will you put in a great deal of effort only to find out you will be frogging the entire project.

Think and plan out what you want to change, so you succeed or identify early on what to scrap. A Designer maps out concepts and changes throughout a design.

Stitches take up space both in width and height. A single crochet is short, a double crochet twice as tall and a treble even taller though all three might take up the same width space, they will not in height. If your working rounds, you will be adding a different amount of stitches so that your corners will lay flat….so if you change a round from sc to dc stitch you just changed stitch count.

Decisions decisions decisions I say MAKE them, but think about how that change may alter what comes next.

MOST OF ALL HAVE FUN AND ALWAYS CREATE

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Welcome to 2020

Well, 2020 is not at all what any of us imagined, including me. I won’t belabor what we are all going through because there is no need, we’re in it aren’t we.

What I can do is encourage those of us who offer crochet patterns for our fellow crocheters to keep it up and use this time to create with new ideas, color schemes and stitch combinations.

My current project is using a Linked Double Crochet (Ldc) and Haystacks in the border and a final Flower pattern using Bobbles. Creating a border that pleases me takes a bit of time, I want to look at it later and think once again YES, I do like that! 

Wellness to all of you, keep creating, keep those hands and your mind busy.

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