Crochet Designs

I've picked up designing overlay crochet patterns.  My design interests of course gravitate towards dog themes.  I have two mini-Dachshunds, so naturally I'm a little bit biased.  I keep working with Dachshund ideas.  I do plan to work on some whippet designs.

Designing and testing crochet patterns is time consuming, and fraught with typos, both in the charts and written instructions.  First, I come up with an idea for a design.  Then I try to capture that idea into artwork.  I'm not very talented creating my own artwork, so my designing is usually taking photos and using a computer program to convert those photos into a chart.  I then manually adjust the chart one square at a time to make the chart usable for overlay mosaic crochet.  There are some rules that have to be followed in order for the chart to be meaningful and result in instructions that can be used by someone to make the Afghan it represents.

Then the chart pattern gets testing, by making the Afghan.  I have a tester that helps me.   After we hopefully find all the typos on the chart, I then prepare the written instructions.

I'm averaging about one new design per year. All my designs are available only on Ravelry.  If you see my design for sale somewhere else, someone has stolen it from me.

 

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