Help - need a crochet hockey rink pattern

Hi everyone - I was hoping someone could help me find a pattern for a
crocheted hockey rink pattern. I found one on a site called Designs by JAMI
or something like that, but the pattern doesn't give very good instructions


Alternatively I would be interested in where to find a book/website/etc that
is essentially "so you have an image and you want to make a crocheted
afghan, but have no idea how to make your own pattern"

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!
QT-Pi

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QT-Pi wrote:
Hi everyone - I was hoping someone could help me find a pattern for a
crocheted hockey rink pattern. I found one on a site called Designs by JAMI
or something like that, but the pattern doesn't give very good instructions


Alternatively I would be interested in where to find a book/website/etc that
is essentially "so you have an image and you want to make a crocheted
afghan, but have no idea how to make your own pattern"

Any help is appreciated.

I think there are programs that will import pictures into a graph for
needlepoint. Since crochet is squarer than knitting, that might work for
you. (But the programs might only be for Apple computers; the one I saw
was on an Apple.)

The other way is to make a photocopy of the picture, enlarging it to a
size where you can see the details that you want to do with one stitch,
and draw a grid of lines across it so that each single-stitch part is
inside a single square. Then mark the colors - you'll probably have to
simplify the picture a lot! - and start crocheting.

If you have the kind of copier available that lets you load the paper in,
you could load it with graph paper and copy the picture directly onto the
graph paper, but that way it's hard to control where the lines go.

=Tamar

QT-Pi -
I found a great group on yahoo groups that is devoted purely to graph
crochet patterns.
if you go to yahoo groups, and search for crochet graph, you'll find it.
They are great people, there are great links to graphing programs, links to
graphs etc.
I prefer doing them in tunisian stitch- each stitch is essentially square,
and once you've turned the picture into a graph, you do it either with SC or
tunisian stitch.

Kelly
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In article ,
QT-Pi wrote:
Hi everyone - I was hoping someone could help me find a pattern for a
crocheted hockey rink pattern. I found one on a site called Designs by
JAMI
or something like that, but the pattern doesn't give very good
instructions


Alternatively I would be interested in where to find a book/website/etc
that
is essentially "so you have an image and you want to make a crocheted
afghan, but have no idea how to make your own pattern"

Any help is appreciated.

I think there are programs that will import pictures into a graph for
needlepoint. Since crochet is squarer than knitting, that might work for
you. (But the programs might only be for Apple computers; the one I saw
was on an Apple.)

The other way is to make a photocopy of the picture, enlarging it to a
size where you can see the details that you want to do with one stitch,
and draw a grid of lines across it so that each single-stitch part is
inside a single square. Then mark the colors - you'll probably have to
simplify the picture a lot! - and start crocheting.

If you have the kind of copier available that lets you load the paper in,
you could load it with graph paper and copy the picture directly onto the
graph paper, but that way it's hard to control where the lines go.

=Tamar

A better way to do the graph paper is to take a piece of graph paper and
photocopy it on a transparency, photocopy your picture in color ( enlarging
it to the size you need) and then put the tansparency over the enlarged
picture and photocopy in color. Works great.

I made an afghan in the afghen stitch and cross stitched a coat of arms on
it.

--
Mike O'Brien
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