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'Inventing' a Stitch

8/10/2015

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I don't think you're supposed to say that you "invented" a crochet stitch.

Someone is too likely to burst your I-Invented-a-Crochet-Stitch bubble.  To say, "Oh, yeah, my grandmother made me a blankie with that exact same stitch."

Or, "Wasn't that in a summer issue of Interweave Crochet?"
It's OK, though, to say that you made up a stitch, or you improvised one.  Somewhere, sometime, someone is/was working their crochet hook in the exact same way that you did, not following a pattern, just going along, wondering what's going to come next, curious about what this is going to look like once a few rows are done.

I improvised/made up a stitch pattern recently.  I started off a swatch with back-loop ribbing, and I thought, what if I change the single crochet to half double?  To double?  To treble?  To double treble?

Before I knew it, I had a reversible fabric with two distinct sides, both with an architectural vibe.  One looked like overlapping pleats; the other had pronounced ridges.  Eventually, this made-up stitch became a hat pattern, Lassen.

'My' made-up stitch pattern uses just two basic stitches: double treble and half double crochet.  You work in the back loops of the double treble, and the "back-back" loops of the half double.  (I blogged about the back-back loops of hdc in July.)

I can see someone somewhere sometime in the distant past working this exact same stitch pattern, making a scarf maybe.  Thinking, Ah, look what I came up with . . . .


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