Stitchboard Admin message #2
Re: Number of Crochet Chains
July 30, 2017 at 12:44:15 AM  (in response to honeill message #1)
 
Helen,

No worries, I answered this in the other topic...you're just going to treat this as any other standard single crochet pattern, if that's the stitch you chose (we call it Standard because in the UK it's called a double crochet - how is that for confusing? LOL). So you'd chain 151 to give yourself the one extra chain for turning to start your new row.

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Stitchboard Admin message #4
Re: Number of Crochet Chains
July 30, 2017 at 11:04:29 PM  (in response to honeill message #3)
 
Helen,

You're so welcome!

Your stitch will be a single crochet...in the future, we'll offer double crochet, but we don't have that available at the moment.

If you want the finished dimensions of your graphghan, you'll need to make a swatch. For single crochet, do a single crochet swatch, at least 4 inches by 4 inches. When you make your swatch and block it, you'll measure to find how many stitches in your swatch, then will divide those dimensions by 4 to get the number of stitches per inch and row. So, for example, if you have a swatch that's 20 stitches by 24 rows, you'll divide both of those numbers by 4, which would give you 5 stitches by 6 rows per inch. Then you'd divide your number of stitches, in this case 30 inches by approximately 20.7 inches. Of course, you'll use your own swatch numbers, not my made up ones. But that gives you an idea of how to calculate your numbers.

Please do keep us informed of your progress!

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