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CROCHET SYMBOL CHARTS Explained! - Plus Bonus FREE Pattern

Mar 12, 2024
welcome, welcome to the

crochet

show with your host nikki. I'm so excited to be here and we're going to talk about

crochet

symbol

charts

, something that a lot of people have been asking for, it's an amazing topic and we're going to delve deeper. In depth and we're going to talk about all the details about it, including a practice

pattern

that I'm going to show you that you can literally do right now if you want to. Number one is crochet

symbol

charts

. Well, I have some here. So first I'll tell you a little about this and then we'll get into the details.
crochet symbol charts explained   plus bonus free pattern
Well, let's talk about what a crochet symbol diagram is. It's a visual representation of a written

pattern

, so it's an easy way to see which one. The stitch is where there is a 2D representation of the pattern, obviously not 3D but 2D and each stitch has a specific symbol that is represented on the graph. Okay, it's done stitch by stitch and shows the different rows and you can even see different colors if the chart is colored and provides specific numbers for each color, so the nice thing about crochet symbol charts is that they don't rely on the language, which means you can use them in different countries and you don't have a language barrier stopping you. from being able to knit a certain pattern, which is great, right, it's a lot of work for a designer to put it together, so not many people do it, but it's something that exists and it's actually very, very interesting and there are a lot of tools to that you can not only understand them but also create your own.
crochet symbol charts explained   plus bonus free pattern

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crochet symbol charts explained plus bonus free pattern...

Now this video is for you to talk about all the little details, so the crochet symbols were actually made by us, so there are UK terms. True, you can think about it and you can see if there are UK based symbols, but most of the time, almost 100 of the time, if you see a chart of crochet symbols, it is based in EE terms. .US, so it's something to keep in mind. Now let's jump straight to number two and start reading the crochet symbols because these crochet symbols that I'm talking about first are the basic ones, the first one and I'm only going to talk up to this line, okay, so ignore all the Rest now , let's just start with the details, first.
crochet symbol charts explained   plus bonus free pattern
That's why I'm going to put my hand here so you can only focus on the most important parts and I know there's a little shadow so I apologize for the way I took this from Yarnstanders.com which is the crafting console of thread, so if you want to grab this, you can grab it from there or you'll go to my website and you can grab it from there as well. Okay, so we have it here and you can see that the chain is always made in a loop shape, sometimes it is oval, sometimes it is a circle, so most of the time it is an oval and that means that a chain makes sense, It's like a little loop.
crochet symbol charts explained   plus bonus free pattern
Think of it as a loop, right, a slip stitch is done with a little stitch that sometimes it's a little hard to see that there's a stitch, so keep that in mind and then the slip stitch is an x, okay, like this Now this is the cool thing. and this is what I really love about these symbols is that if you just look at this, okay, I should have had something to cover things up, let's see if I can use this because I'm trying not to distract you, okay, so if you just look at this and you look at these here, these represent points, obviously, we have half double crochet, double crochet, triple crochet in double triple.
Now many times people have asked me how you remember which one you know. Sometimes people mix it up. stand up and say oh this is the double crochet and I said well there's an easy way to remember and this is how these stitches came about so a stitch is pretty much a double crochet and it has a line at the top. It's similar to finishing a stitch, but these lines here, these are crossed lines, they actually tell you how many times you're knitting now the only problem is that for a half double crochet you're technically knitting too, but that's not the part. where you make a yarn over again right where you make that extra step for the double crochet so you can know from these lines how many times you need to knit the yarn over you just have to remember that the half double crochet does not have the line because even though you are knitting, it doesn't you're doing that extra step to get to the height of a double crochet, so this is an easy way to remember which crochet is which, so let's start again from the beginning, so chain slip stitch low crochet middle double double treble and double triple if you just learn the basics you will be able to read most of the patterns correctly this is literally the basics don't even go any further just learn this we will do a practice in a second ok so once you get the concepts basics then you can go a little bit further when I say further I'm talking about the advanced points to really understand now that you know the basics you want to go a little bit deeper so what deeper means is now you want to understand the the rest of them, but you can't understand them unless you know the basics because all these advanced stitches are based on the basics, just like learning crochet, you first learn the basic crochet stitches before getting into stitch patterns or patterns. and then you really explore everything. possible and challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone, so for example, here you can see that there are two x's close together, so think of an elongated x, so we have two you're doing a decrease, right? single crochets two two single crochets together you're doing a decrease right here it would be three single crochets together it's three they come together correctly so you can see that there is the line at the top you always only have one line because you end with one stitch the line at the top tells you how many you finish with correctly so you end up at the top with one stitch but you started with two that were crochet doubles, so here obviously it's going to be three, now here you can see that you're joining from one point and you're ending with one point, so this happens in a group. to be half double double double crochet on the right, you can see that they are coming out from the beginning of a stitch where you are adding a bunch of stitches but you don't finish them until the end because you don't end with In this case, here three stitches tall, you end up with a dot at the end in the same dot, but you added a bunch of dots and still combined them, so you started with a dot and ended with a dot, but I added a bunch in the middle right, that means that you did half the double crochets and then you're finishing it right, everyone knows that, and then for this one would be the shell that you're starting with a stitch. right here and you end up with five, you can see there are five lines up there, so you end up with five here, you can see, it's a chain of three pickets or chop or however you want to pronounce this correctly, so I can tell you how to do it, so you have chains and you have the slip stitch.
Here's a cool little thing. You'll have this guy right here, which means you're going around a pole and he tells you which direction to go. you have a front post and a back post, you have to just remember that, okay, that's one of those things that you just have to remember which is which so you can say maybe, you know, the front track is I don't I don't know. how do you want to remember it, but one is the front and the other is the right back, you can't actually paste it on this, which one is where, which one is the back loop, which one is the front loop, right, this is actually a bit . a little bit easier so we have a front loop if you take the v to the right if you have a v of a stitch so imagine this is a v of a stitch this is the top down view of a stitch here you would have the front loop and then you have here the back loop on the right so I don't know if you want to remember it this way so we have the front right loop as shown here and then the back loop you have this more visual I don't know how you want to remember Okay, uh, one is the front and the back for the back stitches, but the idea is that you're going around and it shows you that you're going around the stitches correctly, so that's something to think about about these. symbols. you'll master it like reading a pattern you're not born with it you have to learn it's like riding a bike it's like learning to crochet learning to read a pattern and then learning to read the symbols some people say oh i learned to crochet but i can't read a pattern, it's just the next step, the same with symbols, it's just the next step, so it's just a way for you to determine if you're ready to learn this and if you're ready. use it more and more often so that you can remember it because it is just practice, practice will make you remember well, so once you do it, you will be ready to start, so now let's move on to the next part which is practicing a crochet real. pattern chart so I have one for you so this is actually a heart so let me do it like this so you can remember it's a heart.
I should have written it down, so now you would start right here, so I'll give you a little bit. More tips in a second, but let's get to the symbols, so here you would have three strings. This here is a magic ring. You can also have you do it as a chain of four and then go to the first chain you made. or you can turn this into a magic ring, that's your choice. Either works in this case, as long as you tighten it at the end or sew it so it's tight, either way is fine, but let's say it's a chain of four. to the right and then you place this, remember the triple double crochets?
Because you yarn over twice, so you have one, two, three triple crochets, all in that point and then here we have double crochets, all in that same point, then we have a chain, a triple. Knit a chain and then this is all upside down here, you end up adding three more chains here and then you slide the seam into the loop to connect it and then create a heart shape so you can totally practice this right now. you already know every point, you can practice this, which is a lot of fun. I actually have this heart pattern on my website, if you really need a video with it, that's totally fine, you can watch it, but this is a pattern that uses all of these symbols to represent a scripture. pattern I just verbally said out loud so you can remember it, hopefully, but it's really cool because it's all about practicing well, so the following are tips because you need to know all the little details that you need to think about properly. let's talk about the tips that some people may not remember when it comes to crochet symbols, so one of the tips I want to tell you is left-handed versus right-handed, unfortunately most crochet symbol charts are made for right-handed people, but it's true because we have more right-handed people. so most people base it on that, does that mean lefties are at a disadvantage?
Not really, all you have to do is make a mirror image of it and then continue from there to the right, so you don't actually say have However, because as you can see in this one, I'm going to hold it up. for one second. You can see I put the slipped point there. You could easily move the slide point over here and be done and it's literally. the inverted version, so if you just go backwards and remember where that slip stitch goes, you should be fine, you can literally invert everything, whether you're using a program to flip it over and make a mirror image or just you know, draw it on paper, speaking of drawing on paper, it's great if you want to practice with it or generally use a graph, you want to be able to draw things and I'm not just talking about drawing things, but taking notes like where am I? make yourself something like uh maybe cross out the dots, you used a highlighter, I made this dot, I made this dot just so you remember where you are, it's ideal or you can use a sticky note or something so you remember where you are, you can mix the rest up, whatever you're comfortable with, you can even put it on some kind of foil or something you can look through and draw on, think dry erasers or something like that.
It's totally up to you, but it's ideal that you mark yourself here is where I am now or this is what I just finished somehow and as I said before, some charts have colors, for example, if you're supposed to change the colors. Well, let's say it's a stripe in some way. You have to remember that too. It is important to look at the notes or key of the pattern. Do you want to reference this? This was done because they just want to show me that this is the new row. because some colors on a chart are just there to help you know which row or round you are in, but sometimes they actually reference the color that was used, so you should check the notes or pattern key to make sure. that you're not mixing things up or assuming things that don't exist, so that's something very, very important.
The other thing I want to remind you is the difference between a chart, a graph, and a diagram, because some people use them interchangeably. I know that sometimes it happens to me by accident too, but what I just showed youIt was a chart, a graph is usually made with these little squares, right? Some people just say pixel chart that way, remember well, they are all little squares and you see them. usually for tapestry from corner to corner for grafts and things like that, you see it in little pixels and they're all color coded, so it's a graph and a diagram usually shows you, for example, think of clothes as garments and it shows you where like the measurements of the garment, that's how you know the arm length or the front panel, the back panel, etc., so that's the difference between a chart, a graph, and a diagram, so that's something to keep in mind and another thing.
I always say that is practice and I have said it before it is very important to practice this is something you know some people learn faster than others and that is totally fine, the only thing that matters is that you keep going and until you feel comfortable don't do it. you do. You don't even need a little chart that you already know on the side, like calling the key chart correctly so you can refer to it. I still do it if I haven't used the chart in a while, I literally have a key next to me. so I can reference which is which so I don't get confused and usually the ones I mix are half double, double and triple, for some reason I mix them up and that's fine but if you remember half double just doesn't have that line through the t and starting with the double crochet you will see how many times you made the yarn over.
This is an easy way to remember which is which. You can jump to my website and learn how to do it. change colors and crochet that uses pixel graphics or just read some of my patterns. My patterns are very well written. Most of my pants, not all, but most of the patents also have a video tutorial and if you need even more help, just order support. and go ahead, challenge yourself and get out of your comfort zone, then my membership is for you, so I hope to see you next time with a new topic every week, we have something else to talk about and explore crochet, and if you want Learn more.
It's time to explore more, so I hope to see you until then, bye.

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