huh (Candace) wrote in message ...
I'd love it...but I can't read crochet patterns!
My mom taught me the basics when I was about 6 or 7, and I never needed the
skill to make much more than a couple things for costumes in school plays. I
have no idea what my stitches are called, lol. I can understand how to read
one or two stitches in a pattern, but anything beyond that throws me. I've
been looking at patterns for two weeks now, trying to decipher them, and all I
get is completely frustrated with them, LOL. Even the painstakingly step by
step animated tutorials are lost on me.

Maybe you could tell me what my most used stitch is? Forgive the technical
lingo..hehehe.

okay...I've got the chain; the foundation row. Now, for the second row, I go
thru, yarn over, only pull thru the stitch, yarn over again, and pull thru both
loops on the hook. is that picture-able?

Thank you for the compliment on my bag
The plan is to add beads after each bag is finished, rather than crochet the
beads into the bags. Have you any idea where I might find examples of that
sort of decoration?

Sorry....I'm all informationaly-retarded on this...just playing by
ear..er...finger


~Candace~


You sound a lot like me. My mother taught me the basics when I was
little. I learned chain stitch, and slip stitch, and single crochet. I
can't read patterns, and other stitches that I learned (shell stitch
and chain ruffle) I figured out by myself. I did buy a couple of books
on learning how to crochet, and have since learned triple and double
crochet, but that's all I can do. Patterns still read like an alien
language to me. It's frustrating, cause it seems that the same brain
that can make sense of beadwork patterns and stitches should be able
to make sense of crochet as well. especially as I do have the basic
knowledge.

I can make hats, bags, and somewhat crooked afghans. I also make
little dolls, which are my own pattern (though I couldn't write it
down if someone asked me to). I figured out how to make them when I
was a kid, because I liked having tiny little dolls to carry around in
my pockets. They were also my introduction to selling things I've
made..I started selling them long before I tried to sell any of my
jewelry. I've never done actual beaded crochet, but I did sew beads
onto their dresses, and I've done bead embroidery using a crocheted
base.

I no longer sell them..they sold really, really well when I first
started out, but I went through a slump that lasted for months. I have
a whole big box full of ones that just didn't sell, so I gave up on
it. I barely even make them anymore, as my beadwork kind of takes up
most of my free time now.

here's a little gallery of them.
http://www.serpentsdance.com/dolls.htm

-amber.