A crocheted piece is the lovely manifestation of a thought, expressed through hand, heart, hook, and yarn.
— Francine Toukou
When I was young, my mum taught me how to crochet. I think that’s how a lot of us got started, right? At the time, I played with it a bit then moved on to more exciting (to me, at the time) things.
Later on, after the birth of my daughter, I was given a crochet kit. It was a superhero amiguri kit and I thought it was amazing! I started to crochet again, relearning all the things I had forgotten and learning plenty of new techniques.
I made a blanket for my mum as a Christmas present! It was a simple stripey blanket made with Bernat Blanket yarn and single crochet. I was still weaving in ends on Christmas Eve to try and get it ready on time! I’ll need to write a whole different post about weaving in ends…
I decided I wanted to do my own pattern, but I found it impossible to find a tool to do what I wanted online. I had a picture and I wanted to convert it into a row by row single crochet pattern. Sounds easy, right? Apparently not, I couldn’t find a single tool online that would give me exactly what I was looking for, all they did was convert things to a graph, but I wanted row by row.
So I made myself a new tool, using excel and python, to get an image, convert it to the number of stitches and colors I wanted, then output row by row instructions. That was another learning experience! Later I also made it write out C2C row by row.
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