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Sherry,
Welcome!
(You do know I have that song stuck in
my head now! 
)
I'm sorry to say I'm completely unfamiliar with Jody Pyott patterns; I've seen them made up, but have never owned any of the patterns or made one. Are the sections all square? Are they single crochet with bobble areas of the same size, or are they some other stitch that turns out square, along with bobbles that fit into a basic square?
Have you reached out to the woman who made the piece in the pic to see what she did to center the names? Do the patterns come with an alphabet for customization, or are you on your own with creating them?
Is the designer responsive to questions about how to center names in her patterns?
If there's no alphabet included, could you use graph paper to make a basic alphabet that's the same height as the inside of the sections for the names? If there is one, can you make a simple representation of the letters with graph paper, using outlines to keep your letters from going out of the lines?
If everything is square, whether or not there's an alphabet for customization, I think graph paper would be the key to everything, because then you can use a pencil to try different placements of letters and erase when your spacing looks too close or too far apart, until you have it just right.
Wish I were familiar with these patterns so I could know what I'm talking about!
Hi all, I am a mom of 4. My oldest is 22 and in the Navy, then I have 15, 12, and 9 yr olds or 9th, 6th and 3rd grades!. I keep very busy during the day volunteering in the elementary school and then between indoor soccer, select soccer, outdoor soccer, school soccer, basketball, aau basketball, school basketball, track, everyday appointments and life, well, you get the picture:)! I say that to say this, I ALWAYS have a crochet project going and with me so I am not yelling and hollering at my kids during the games... they hate when I do that!
I am really looking forward to this group and learning a lot! I consider myself to be very proficient at stitching but horrible at reading patterns unless they are written out:(. I want to make (or worst case buy) a bag to take with me, with at least 4 divisions or sections that will hold up to anything!!!
My current project I'm experimenting with as I have never made my own pattern and never done anything requiring changing colors or yarn and this will require both!!! I want to make my daughter in the Navy a navy blue blanket with a large yellow gold anchor in the center and USN in red over the top of the anchor. I'd also like to have her last name in smaller letters on the bottom centered on the anchor. This is what I have and I need to make the USN slightly larger and the Vile slightly smaller but yet still readable in crochet.
If anyone can fix it so it doesn't look lopsidded size wise, meaning name is bigger than USN, or make the anchor bigger so the USN and name don't look out of proportion, if that makes sense, I'd greatly appreciate any and all help or input:)! Thank you in advance!!!
I am new here and relatively new to crochet but not
to cross stitch and other crafts:)! I'm a mom of 4, one in the
Navy, 9th, 6th, 3rd grades. I keep very busy but ALWAYS have my
crochet with me:)!!!
will you please upgrade me as well. i would love to be able to make larger patterns.
I posted three FREE crochet patterns for Kindle for today...grab them before they're gone! (Note: you do not need to have an actual Kindle. If you have a smartphone, you can download a Kindle reader app for FREE...if all you have is a PC, you can download to your PC...and I believe there may also be a way now of completely bypassing any kind of reader app to read directly online - though please don't quote me on that, as I'm not sure. I find the PC reader to be quite decent for pattern content...since I don't own a Kindle, I can't say how well it works...but I would think a smaller screen would make patterns kind of difficult to read.)
Here's the circle (you must join to see posts):
/circles/pg/groups/36435/crafty-bookworms/
I posted three FREE crochet patterns for Kindle for today...grab them before they're gone! (Note: you do not need to have an actual Kindle. If you have a smartphone, you can download a Kindle reader app for FREE...if all you have is a PC, you can download to your PC...and I believe there may also be a way now of completely bypassing any kind of reader app to read directly online - though please don't quote me on that, as I'm not sure. I find the PC reader to be quite decent for pattern content...since I don't own a Kindle, I can't say how well it works...but I would think a smaller screen would make patterns kind of difficult to read.)
Here's the circle (you must join to see posts):
/circles/pg/groups/36435/crafty-bookworms/
To read a particular post, simply click on it!
Sherry,
Welcome!
(You do know I have that song stuck in
my head now! )I'm sorry to say I'm completely unfamiliar with Jody Pyott patterns; I've seen them made up, but have never owned any of the patterns or made one. Are the sections all square? Are they single crochet with bobble areas of the same size, or are they some other stitch that turns out square, along with bobbles that fit into a basic square?
Have you reached out to the woman who made the piece in the pic to see what she did to center the names? Do the patterns come with an alphabet for customization, or are you on your own with creating them?
Is the designer responsive to questions about how to center names in her patterns?
If there's no alphabet included, could you use graph paper to make a basic alphabet that's the same height as the inside of the sections for the names? If there is one, can you make a simple representation of the letters with graph paper, using outlines to keep your letters from going out of the lines?
If everything is square, whether or not there's an alphabet for customization, I think graph paper would be the key to everything, because then you can use a pencil to try different placements of letters and erase when your spacing looks too close or too far apart, until you have it just right.
Wish I were familiar with these patterns so I could know what I'm talking about!
Hi all, I am a mom of 4. My oldest is 22 and in the Navy, then I have 15, 12, and 9 yr olds or 9th, 6th and 3rd grades!. I keep very busy during the day volunteering in the elementary school and then between indoor soccer, select soccer, outdoor soccer, school soccer, basketball, aau basketball, school basketball, track, everyday appointments and life, well, you get the picture:)! I say that to say this, I ALWAYS have a crochet project going and with me so I am not yelling and hollering at my kids during the games... they hate when I do that!
I am really looking forward to this group and learning a lot! I consider myself to be very proficient at stitching but horrible at reading patterns unless they are written out:(. I want to make (or worst case buy) a bag to take with me, with at least 4 divisions or sections that will hold up to anything!!!
My current project I'm experimenting with as I have never made my own pattern and never done anything requiring changing colors or yarn and this will require both!!! I want to make my daughter in the Navy a navy blue blanket with a large yellow gold anchor in the center and USN in red over the top of the anchor. I'd also like to have her last name in smaller letters on the bottom centered on the anchor. This is what I have and I need to make the USN slightly larger and the Vile slightly smaller but yet still readable in crochet.
If anyone can fix it so it doesn't look lopsidded size wise, meaning name is bigger than USN, or make the anchor bigger so the USN and name don't look out of proportion, if that makes sense, I'd greatly appreciate any and all help or input:)! Thank you in advance!!!
I am new here and relatively new to crochet but not
to cross stitch and other crafts:)! I'm a mom of 4, one in the
Navy, 9th, 6th, 3rd grades. I keep very busy but ALWAYS have my
crochet with me:)!!!will you please upgrade me as well. i would love to be able to make larger patterns.
I posted three FREE crochet patterns for Kindle for today...grab them before they're gone! (Note: you do not need to have an actual Kindle. If you have a smartphone, you can download a Kindle reader app for FREE...if all you have is a PC, you can download to your PC...and I believe there may also be a way now of completely bypassing any kind of reader app to read directly online - though please don't quote me on that, as I'm not sure. I find the PC reader to be quite decent for pattern content...since I don't own a Kindle, I can't say how well it works...but I would think a smaller screen would make patterns kind of difficult to read.)
Here's the circle (you must join to see posts):
/circles/pg/groups/36435/crafty-bookworms/
I posted three FREE crochet patterns for Kindle for today...grab them before they're gone! (Note: you do not need to have an actual Kindle. If you have a smartphone, you can download a Kindle reader app for FREE...if all you have is a PC, you can download to your PC...and I believe there may also be a way now of completely bypassing any kind of reader app to read directly online - though please don't quote me on that, as I'm not sure. I find the PC reader to be quite decent for pattern content...since I don't own a Kindle, I can't say how well it works...but I would think a smaller screen would make patterns kind of difficult to read.)
Here's the circle (you must join to see posts):
/circles/pg/groups/36435/crafty-bookworms/
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