Do You try patterns without pictures?

[Homebody]

Wow! I thought I was the only visual and had to have a picture. I also love to see more than one photo of the object before I am convinced I really want to make it. i.e.- the seraphina shawl I just started.

[Lisaizme]

Ya know, I was about to agree with everyone on this when it occurred to me that I HAVE done patterns without a picture.. and had excellent results.

 

I've done Mystery crochet-a-longs, not knowing what I was going to be making.

 

This is the end product of the latest Mystery CAL I was in (not the whole blanket.. hehe.. just the square)

 

http://www.crochetville.org/forum/showthread.php?t=28597

[donnalynn2]

I'm the same way. I really need a picture. Not everyone likes the same thing so maybe a shawl you love I would hate and vice versa. I need to see what I'm making and make sure it's something I want to do.

 

I, too, have been a part of a couple of mystery CAL's and those were fun for many reasons. A)There were a bunch of us doing it all at the same time and B)the person choosing the patterns for it was someone we all trusted and in the end was able to help us if we got stuck.

[Yasmin]

I don't do patterns without pictures. Even if it is a small picture , it's okay. But I have to get an idea about the look of the finished product. But I do love mystery patterns !!!

Yasmin.

[Poochie]

A picture is a definate must in my books.....

[nucki]

I think the whole idea of a "mystery pattern" is a different ball of wax altogether!!!! That's the whole idea of it being a "MYSTERY!"

 

But it certainly looks like for the majority of us, if we're out LOOKING for a pattern and we see one without a picture, it's NEXT!!!!

[Karen C.]

Yes, come to think of it, I have done patterns without pictures for mystery crochet alongs. I think that's different than looking around for a specific thing you need to make.

[Karen C.]

I agree entirely. (That's why CPC has a have-to-have-a-picture rule. In fact, if you find one where the picture is broken or disappeared, let me know, will you?)

 

Definitely, one needs to know what the item is sort-of going to look like before they make it.

 

(And I don't intend to put down pattern designers that publish patterns without pictures! Sometimes it is the best they can do, and not everybody has ready access to a camera.)

 

I so appreciate you having that rule! It definitely saves me time when I'm browsing to know right away if I want to print and make something

[SweetButterfly]

I prefer that a pattern has a picture. If it doesn't I skip it. I like a "visual reference".

[Susanne]

I am completly with you, with one exclusion: I don't need a photo if I make a filet crocheted thing from a chart.

[kittin1982]

i need a picture. i wasnt to know what i am making. i need to know the general idea of what it's supposed to look like....otherwise i get stressed and angry.....

[Bearsgrammy]

I have sometimes tried patterns without pictures. It is kind of fun to see how they will turn out. I only do this if the project is small, or not too complicated. It is sort of like doing a mystery pattern. Have had no disappointments, so far. (There's always a first time!)

[Chrome Kitty]

You know how sometimes you see a title for a pattern like Stunning Shawl or Adorable Afghan or something like that and you click on the link and gasp in horror :eekat the picture of the not-so-stunning or beautiful monstrosity the pattern will create? Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of ending up with if there's no picture. I'd rather know before I start if it's actually a pattern for a Sloppy Shawl or an Appalling Afghan.

[photojenic]

You know how sometimes you see a title for a pattern like Stunning Shawl or Adorable Afghan or something like that and you click on the link and gasp in horror :eekat the picture of the not-so-stunning or beautiful monstrosity the pattern will create? Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of ending up with if there's no picture. I'd rather know before I start if it's actually a pattern for a Sloppy Shawl or an Appalling Afghan.

 

:laughrollI thought *I* was the only one who gasped in horror at some of those patterns and photos like that! Lolololololol! I'm sure I've made quite a few monstrosities myself though.

[Empress Busy Bee]

I thought *I* was the only one who gasped in horror at some of those patterns and photos like that!

Add me to the gasping list.

I don't do projects without some sort of picture, either.

[laureni526]

I also skip patterns without a picture. There is only one pattern I have ever made without a true photo (there was a sketch). It was Sandi Marshall's Teddy Bear from about.com. I was so pleasantly surprised at how well my bears have turned out. I say bears, because I have made at least a half dozen in the last year. She has since posted a picture (this month). I have to say, not to be snotty but, my bears turn up so much cuter than the picture she posted. I love this pattern and I'm glad that I attempted it even though it didn't have a picture. Sometimes you get a little surprise.

 

[Roli]

Those are cute, Lauren! Kudos to you for trying a pattern sight-unseen.

[JustRenee]

Yes and No, depends on if the pattern seems hard

[irikel]

Im a skipper also...I like to know what it looks like.

[irikel]

Her bear looks so sad...yours are really happy.(and cuter)

[luvmnms]

I'm a skipper, I need visuals, I can usually tell by the photo if I'm interested in the project.

[RoseHS]

I never try a pattern unless there is a picture available. I don't have enough experience crocheting to read a pattern and understand what it is supposed to look like without a picture. So I need that picture so that I can know if my project is going horribly wrong!

[fireyeyes]

never

[dewbaby00]

Once in a great while if the pattern seems easy enough I will do one without a picture...but usually Im a skipper of non pics

[proudmama762003]

skippity do da