reading patterns

[lovetocrochet]

i have no idea how to read them and what all those Abbreveations mean can someone help me out i want to make so much stuff !! thanks in advance:hug

[Kevspepper]

This is a really good site with abbreviations of stitches, instructions and pics.

 

http://www.stitchguide.com/stitches/crochet/index.html

 

Good Luck!

[RachelG]

These links may help, too:

 

http://www.crochetcabana.com/reading-patterns.htm

 

http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com/abbreviations.php

[Tampa Doll]

Here are a couple of web sites that may help with understanding the abbrevations. The first one has the abbrevation and how to do it.

 

 

http://www.crochet.org/lessons/lessonr/lessonr.html

 

 

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cottage/3606/tutorialpage.html#CROCHET%20ABBREVIATIONS

 

Hope this helps:hook

[crochet smartcat]

I love helping people in this way. If you want to email me a particular pattern that you want to do, I can help you translate it into regular english. If you want to instant message, I can do that too. Let me know if you need any help at all.

[lovetocrochet]

wow you guys are so helpful im gonna check out the site and if i still cant get it ill deff email you thanks so much everyone !!

[MarvieN]

Something I used to do if it was an internet pattern, I'd copy and paste it into a Word doc and teach the dictionary to change the abbreviations to whole words. Then I'd put each step on it's own line, rather than in paragraph style (this helped me keep track when a row had lots of steps) and since I'd eliminated two of the things that confused me, it was eaiser to remember what the ()'s and []'s and * to* stuff meant. Over time I realized that the abbreviations all made sense really, but it took a while of using whole words before it all clicked. I've only been reading patterns for about a year now, and it's just second nature now =) (though I do still seperate the paragraphs sometimes!)