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Please help me understand this crochet pattern

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LemonRedwood · 03/08/2018 23:37

I just can't seem to understand this!

Am currently doing a cardigan using Drops pattern 68-15 (here) and can't get my head around what the divide and crochet separately means in the body part. Also, later on the shaping around the neck bit is kind of making my head spin. Can anyone help put it into plain english? The tutorial videos on the website are next to useless as they just show how to do the stitches shown in the diagram pattern.

This is the first time I've attempted to crochet an actual proper piece of clothing and am feeling defeated! The pattern seems to come up quite big even though my gauge is right so this will probably turn into a practice piece anyway but don't want to give up yet!

Please help me understand this crochet pattern
Please help me understand this crochet pattern
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SassitudeandSparkle · 03/08/2018 23:52

Does the divide mean that you have started it all in one piece? So the whole thing (before dividing) is about 10-12 pattern repeats across the row? Because that would make sense for the dividing - before dividing you have worked the whole body up to the armholes.

So first two pattern repeats - one front, then bind off 1 (or 2, depending on size) pattern repeats for the armhole, next 4 pattern repeats are the back of the cardigan, bind off 1 (or 2) again for the armhole and then the last 2 are the other front piece.

LemonRedwood · 04/08/2018 06:26

Oh, OK, yes, thank you Sassitude, I think I understand that. So you'd bind off the front bit and then start the back from the same spot/CH sp?

Would you crochet one row of front, bind off, crochet one row of back, bind off, one row of other front side and then repeat or crochet back and forth to create front section, bind off, then do the whole back, bind off, then do the other front section?

Sorry, even as I'm typing that sounds like a silly question but I really don't find the instructions clear at all!

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SassitudeandSparkle · 04/08/2018 12:51

I should add a disclaimer that I've never crocheted a wearable item, only smaller stuff!

It would seem to have one row that you need to do with the bind off bits in - these bind off bits are the dividers. After you've done that row with the bind offs, the bits from the edges to the bind offs are the front pieces, and the larger bit between the bind offs is the back.

So - after the bind off row.

Working from the edge to the first bind off is a front. Just work on this bit going back and forward from the edge to the bind off, following the pattern and doing the shaping. You'll finish one front.

On to the next front - presumably need to attach the yarn at the bind off point and work between that and the edge, reversing the shapings to match. You've finished the second front.

Attach yarn and work between the two bind-offs to complete the back according to the pattern.

I think that's what it means by work each body part seperately. Do one front and finish it, do second front and finish it, then do the back.

But to me, the pattern says to do a bit at a time. So you may need to do the row with the bind offs in as one, but after that you work and complete one front only (working from the edge to the bind off bit), then you finish that front after the neck shaping.

Next front piece - presumably you pick it up after the bound off bit, then work that bit reversing the shapings.

Finally - back piece, worked between the bound off bits, has own shaping in pattern.

LemonRedwood · 09/08/2018 10:54

Thanks again Sassitude.

I have now frogged this one after realising I'd been doing trebles where I should've have been doing doubles in the second part of the pattern and just got frustrated with it! The yarn is now all in a big tangle and shoved at the bottom of my WIP bag. Aaarrgh!

Back to blankets for now!

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Bordercollies · 09/09/2018 07:57

I know this is an old post but i didnt want you to be discouraged. Drops patterns arent great. They are continental patterns. For your first wearable you would be better with a british wool makers pattern or even a magazine like simply crochet or crochet now. My best friend is a professional knitting and crochet tutor and designer and she would never touch a drops pattern. Just wanted to let you know it isnt you so pick up your hook and have a bash at something else Smile

JayneW63 · 15/09/2018 16:30

I've worked 6 Drops patterns this Summer. I've been happy with the finished work , but they all have had an element of sitting staring long and hard at the instructions, the picture and the actual work in hand.

90% perfectly clear, 10% WTF.

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