Your Answers To Questions About Crochet Patterns For Beginners Baby
Mark asks…
Can someone explain these crochet instructions in plain english?
I guess you can say a beginner in crocheting with patterns. I have made three blankets but simply using a single crochet stitch throughout. I now want to try a pattern (it is a #411 Bernat Softee Baby Double Diamond Crochet Blanket if anyone is curious–says it’s for beginners) and am totally lost with the instructions given (I know what the abbreviations mean, I guess I just haven’t learned how to read them). Can someone interpret this set of instructions for me in the hopes that I will better be able to read the rest of my pattern?
It is a motif…. 1st rnd: Ch3 (counts as dc). [3 dc. (Ch2. 4 dc) 3 times] in ring. Ch 2. Join with sl st to top of ch 3.
I appreciate all your help!
admin answers:
The ch 3 is supposedly a dc so do 3 dc and a ch 2, 4 dc ch 2 In other words you will have a total of 4 dc and a 2 ch between them This is what it will lok like with The “|” as a dc and the “-” as the chain but will be in a circle
| | | | – - | | | | – - | | | | — | | | | – - with the last 2 – - conneting it to a ring.
Nancy asks…
What Are Some Crochet Ideas For Quick & Simple Baby Gifts?
I would like to attempt a simple baby gift for a friend that is 7 mos, so it can’t take long, plus I’m a beginner…can’t even read patterns…. I make up stuff myself. maybe booties, a cap…. she doesn’t know the sex of the baby……. any ideas?
admin answers:
Maybe you could buy a small piece of cute fabric (unisex), cut it in the shape of a bib, and then sew on some cute crochet edging. Leave a chain tail at both edges in the back so she can tie a loose bow around her baby’s neck. Just a thought!
Donna asks…
Looking for free crochet ugg boot pattern?
Can someone help me find one. I’m having my first baby in a couple of months and I’m looking for some cute booties to crochet for him for the winter. I’m a beginner/intermediate but I only know how to crochet, I don’t know how to knit. I appreciate someone helping me find a free pattern.
admin answers:
Here is what I found:
http://crochetroo.blogspot.com/2007/10/aussie-snuggly-ugg-crochet-booties.html
http://www.coatsandclark.com/Crafts/Crochet/Projects/BabyChild/WR1759+Baby+Boots.htm
http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com/directory/baby_booties_mittens.php
http://www.makeforbaby.com/directory.php?directory=Booties
knitting:
http://knittingonthenet.com/patterns/babybootiesugg.htm
Ruth asks…
Need help for beginner crochet?
I am currently working on a baby afghan right now and I am just a beginner. The pattern is level 2 difficult but I’m having a baby and really loved the blanket it shows. I’m having a hard time with the directions however. It says Ch 126, which I have done, but the next step for Row 1 says Sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each ch across: 125 sc; ch 3 (counts as dc on next row now and throughout), turn. So I do a Sc in the 2nd chain, and continue to do so in every two chains? Or do I just do the first sc in the 2nd chain than every individual chain after that? I’m kind of confused with this wording. Help please?
admin answers:
I don’t know if this will help you or if your interested but I use this http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/729377/review_of_the_knifty_knitter_crocheting.html
makes blankets and hates very quick and very nice.
Sharon asks…
need help reading crochet pattern?
ok I get the abbreviations, but it still doesn’t make sense to me.
It says
Wavy stitch (which isn’t covered in the book)multiple of 13 sts +4; 1-row repeat
set up row: beg in second ch from hook, sc in second ch and in next ch;skip 1 ch,sc in next 5 ch*work 3 sc in next ch, sc in next 5 ch;repeat from * across, ending last rep at +, skip 1 ch, sc in last 2 ch turn.
Then it has instructions for row 1
Then says blanket
I just don’t understand. 13+4 is it 17 stitches? why doesn’t it say 17? Am I supposed to do instructions, setup row, row 1, and then blanket?
It’s a wavy baby blanket. It’s a book for beginners, just doesn’t make sense to me. I’m on bedrest, so I can’t go take classes or anything.
Thanks in advance for your help
admin answers:
It doesn’t just say 17 because Wavy Stitch is a stitch pattern that you can repeat as many times as you need. To get this particular pattern to repeat properly, you need to work it over a *multiple of 13* stitches plus an additional 4 stitches (so you would need to work it over 17, 30, 43, etc. Stitches), which is different from saying “multiples of 17″.
You start under the Blanket section, NOT the Wavy Stitch section (usually you start where the directions specifically tell you how many chains to make). When you get to the part that says to work in Wavy Stitch, then you refer to the Wavy Stitch section. They separate the stitch pattern from the actual directions to save space and avoid repeating the same thing over and over.
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