Marie
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She's a clever girl
Not clever at all. I am both impatient and stupid when it comes to patterns. I also hate to keep breaking off - read how to do a few stitches, crochet, read a bit more, crochet a bit more, read a bit more, crochet...... horrendous. I just don't have the patience for it. Also, I don't always agree or want to make something how somebody else does it.
Having said that, the journey I had to travel to make the bootees in post 18 for example was incredibly difficult.
Looked online for a free pattern I liked, found one, couldn't follow it.
Found another online pattern I liked but again I couldn't follow it.
Bought a pattern from a Charity shop, couldn't follow it.
Bought a book of socks/bootees - tried different ones, couldn't do any of them.
The only thing I could do was knit a pair first. So from another book I knitted a pair. It was the daftest pattern you have ever seen in your life - the uppers were pointed both at the toes and heels, the soles were squared off at both ends. However, once I had the basic shape and realised how I DIDN'T want my bootees to look it was a simple task to get graph paper out, look up the length of a newborn's foot online, and DRAW my own shape of bootee. ie make something a bit like a sewing pattern.
Once I had the shape in front of me I could crochet to it! Simple!
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ps I eventually sewed the stupid bootees pieces I had knitted together and they turned out to be the ugliest bootees ever known to man.
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I'm amazed how often I alter patterns these days - as if they were written by someone who doesn't knit.
for example who wants a thick sewn up edge at the top of mittens - grafting or Kitchener stitch (two names for the same thing) is not difficult - just fiddly.
Madelaine
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My Postcard Shop
BK Stamps for Philatelic listings
& Yarnalong for craft patterns
and
Lotzabitz -anything that doesn't belong in one of the other shops.
mindless. utterly mindless, some folk - and this stuff gets puts out in the world!
I wouldn't care but it should be just so simple needing minimal common sense......
If I had had a live baby here I could have had those bootees made in very little time - but then again, no, I won't go there, lol!!!
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