Jons blanket – crochet complete!
Once again I find myself apologising for the lack of updates along the way, however, by wee hours of sunday norning I had completed the crochet on Jons blanket. I had the border and end sewing todo. Well, I did the border, now I just got the ends to complete.. Hes how it came into being
So there you have it. Its about 5ft by 3.5ft.
This and the other work you've shown is amazing. I wonder, do you create a chart before you begin, or do you have a pattern? Inspired by your work, I'd like to try to make an afghan with my boyfriend's band's logo, but thinking about how to begin has me stalled a bit.
Very lovely work! Thank you for sharing!
I use a cross stitch program to form a pattern, Ive 2 cross stitch programs, the one Id recommend is winstitch, and can be found on http://www.ursasoftware.com.
However, the reality is mspaint that comes with windows will do the job at a bare essentials, I even wrote an article on my myspace page which explained it, in short, every picture you see on your computer is represented in a number of pixels, what I do is work that 1 pixel is 1 stitch, so you can either draw, download and shrink/edit pictures or whatever and then work on them.
If you'd like me to do a small tutorial on how to do it, I can post it on the core website (http://www.crochet-crazy.com) as thats the whole point of the site to put things that are useful on there.
If you want to check my myspace page its http://www.myspace.com/crochet_creations look through the blog which I used to use for my crochet blog there, and around august 2008 I went through how to use mspaint, and how to do the colour changes so they look smart – what Id suggest you do, is do something small like a heart on a 10×10 grid, so you can practice and see how it works out. http://www.nexstitch.com has wonderful videos for how to do a variety of tunisian stitches if you arent sure how to.. Or, if you're on facebook/myspace etc find me, and I can give you my private email and we can talk as much crochet as you like 🙂