First Project : Did you practice?
By SomeCowgirl
@SomeCowgirl (32189)
United States
November 14, 2008 8:32am CST
After finishing your first successful project did you continue to make others of the same project or did you pick another pattern and try that one out for size? Did you try to find patterns for the same stitches, or did you find patterns for a variety of stitches.
I recently started a discussion about my first successful project of a purse, and well I am thinking of doing that project again. It uses two of the main stitches, but I also want to venture out and try Double Crocheting out for size. I've attempted it, the stitch that is, but am not completely comfortable with it. If anyone has or knows of patterns that bases solely around Double Crochet, I would appreciate a link to the pattern, or the pattern being written out here!
Have a wonderful day!
2 responses
@DCMerkle (1281)
• United States
15 Nov 08
I love to crochet and I am finding that I am taking to it like a duck to water. If there is a pattern that would like to try do and it has a stitch in it that I'm not familiar with it, I will do a test swatch. I'll do it over and over again till I got it. Once I've done the project with the new stitch, I'll see ways that I can use it in something else I may be working on from my head.
DCMerkle
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@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
16 Nov 08
Glad your learning well to crochet. Now for myself, I'm not sure if I'm doing a certain stitch right. I practice single crochet, and still am for the most part, and yet I try double crochet and it appears to loose for me. What i've done is trying a pattern off of about.com I think it goes something a little like this
ch 3 , make 2 sc in 2nd lp from hk...
Well that's a different problem actually... then when I try to double crochet in something, well it comes out more like a sl st
@DCMerkle (1281)
• United States
16 Nov 08
SomeCowgirl,
Try going to Expert Village. They have videos to show you how to do just about everything. On the homepage,type in the name of the stitch, in the search box, that you want to learn how to do and they will give you a list of videos to view.
I've learned how to do a lot from there.
DCMerkle
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@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
16 Nov 08
I'll try that site again but I know the first time I looked at it I thought it went to fast for me. I've learned the basic stitches now, so maybe I'm more at pace with how the speed in which they teach. I appreciate the advice though, I had forgotten about Expert Village!
@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
17 Nov 08
So you do all yours, free form? I think is that what using no patterns is? That's cool that you can do that. It's not too hard to read a pattern, the asterik and parentheses confuse me sometimes. Doily's are very pretty and I can see where you'd go from that to afghans.
I appreciate the response.
