Crochet Pattern Design: Find Your Signature Style

Overview

“Let's now talk about how to design a grid-based crochet pattern. The nature of a crocheted texture is grid-based, and in most cases, you can design your pattern on grid paper, the same paper you used during your maths exam. But why grid paper? Why not sketch paper? If you have been crocheting before, you know that the stitches are all stacked on top of each other forming a grid-based pattern. Imagine if the stitches were Legos. We would use the square and the rectangular ones to create a crochet pattern by building a surface where you only have certain moves to make. These moves represent the stitches you will crochet, in our case, single crochet stitches (square lego) and double crochet stitches (rectangular lego). So when we design the crochet pattern, we use the grid base as a map for the stitches. You can go wild as well, skip the grid paper, and crochet on: This would be called free-form crochet. But with a grid-based crochet design, you can explore the limits of the grid and see how complicated a pattern you are able to create. I have a few of my pattern design memos to show you, they are all grid-based. There are three types of grid in the memo: a square, a rectangular, and a honeycomb shape. The latter is for designing patterns for tube-shaped single crochet surfaces. We will use the rectangular grid. Next, we learn how to read the grid-based color charts and the universal crochet symbols, which often look like some weird alien language. What about the pattern repeat? Let’s see how that works.”

In this video lesson Molla Mills addresses the topic: Grid-Based Design, which is part of the Domestika online course: Crochet Pattern Design: Find Your Signature Style. Create your own tapestry crochet patterns and turn them into unique works of art that reflect your personality.

Partial transcription of the video

“When you start designing your crochet patterns, you are going to be needing two types of paper. Both of the paper Have a great. The other grid has rectangulars. and the other one has squares. So these squares and rectangles are called pixels. and pixels are the base of your crochet pattern design. So imagine this piece of paper This is your first pixel. This is also your first single crochet stitch. Now add another piece of paper on top of it or under it. and it creates a rectangular. Now this is a double crochet stitch. This is how you can design your patterns. You have a paper that has a ...”

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Course summary for: Crochet Pattern Design: Find Your Signature Style

• Level: Beginner
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• 4 units
• 19 lessons (2h 52m)
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• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Accessory Design, Crochet, DIY, Fiber Arts, Pattern Design, Textile Design