Using an Antique Crochet Pattern…Without a Pattern | Can I Copy This Victorian Crochet Piece?

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Жыл бұрын

I found a really cute crochet border from 1876 that I wanted to make something with, but there was one small problem: there are no written instructions! What to do? Why, bust out my crochet sleuthing skills, of course! Join me as I draft my own pattern based on the example photo and make a little mystery project.
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@user-uq8qo5hf4r Жыл бұрын

I've been crocheting for over 55 years, and I have to say you did beautiful work. Crochet thread is the only 'yarn' medium I use (doilies everywhere), and you did a great job. I like the pattern and plan to make one. Thank you.

@angelabury1349 Жыл бұрын

You just taught me how to read a pictorial crochet pattern! In all my years of crochet, I could only look at them in confusion. Thanks so much! Love this channel 💗

@stitchnfiction Жыл бұрын

Yay!! I'm so glad you found it helpful! 😃

@mariawhite7337 Жыл бұрын

Me: **sees a knit pattern/chart can make it** This is so easy! Also me: **stares incomprehensibly at a crochet pictorial thing** GIVE UP YOUR SECRETS!

@ceciliahanna3507 4 ай бұрын

So beautiful! Your perseverance certainly paid off!!

@Voolenvine Жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful FO!! 😍This was so much fun to watch. I'm also of the mindset that if you can't beat it, fudge it! That said, you'd need a microscope to point out that pseudo "X" stitch. Nice work! 😆 ... and now you've totally inspired me to bust out my Victorian Crochet book and reverse-engineer some patterns from it. So glad I found your channel!

@stitchnfiction Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! ☺️ Glad I could inspire, the reverse-engineering was fun and I highly recommend it!

@gellrb56 6 ай бұрын

I think I’ll make a tee shirt which says, “If you can’t beat it, fudge it”.

@cathymadsen2930 Жыл бұрын

Just found your channel and I really enjoy your videos. I'm a huge fan of filet crochet and now most of my projects are thread filet. Your fix for the missed stitch is exactly what I've done before, so great idea. I found a video called "thread crochet tips" by Mezza Craft and one of the best tips i got was about the hook type. She suggests using one with a straight shaft and as a result my work sits flat and it reduces the loop gaps you are talking about. I do find the straight shafts a bit more difficult to find and the best ones have been from opp shops.

@stitchnfiction Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoy them! 😊 Thank you for the tip about the hook, I'll have to keep an eye out for those - I've tried a few different types, but nothing with a straight shaft yet.

@MariaRamirez-jm3cj Ай бұрын

I just saw the end of the video , so I know what I can use it for. Gorgeous!!!!!

@Momsaidwow 11 ай бұрын

What an incredibly talented young lady. I started crocheting during Covid and I’m addicted. I’m sooo happy I stumbled across your channel

@stitchnfiction 11 ай бұрын

Aww, thank you! ☺️

@Anya54321 10 ай бұрын

It looks great, I would have just stuck that corner in the back under the lamp. Problem solved 😂

@anonymousbub3410 Жыл бұрын

My great grandmother used to use this thin of yarn (or thread) all the time and she became so fast and skilled that even when she turned 96 she continued to crochet remarkably fast without looking and we still have her creations

@stitchnfiction Жыл бұрын

That's amazing, I hope my hands can still do this at 96! That is awesome that you still have pieces from her - I also have a few older pieces that were passed down as family heirlooms, and they're so precious to me. ❤️

@loragarza5097 3 ай бұрын

When I'm working with the size 10 thread I like to use a size 22 tapestry needle I like those needles because they have blunt tips

@sidmelucci3675 8 ай бұрын

That's a lovely edging. And you did a great job figuring out the pattern. A quick timesaving tip for connecting separate medallions: Rather than making a stack of separate bits and then painstakingly tacking them together, link them together as you go. That is, make piece #1, and on the last row of #2, slip stitch it to #1 at the appropriate point(s). Continue with #3, #4, etc., and when you've finished the last medallion, they're all connected. No way to escape all the ends to weave in, though, more's the pity...

@stitchnfiction 8 ай бұрын

That's a great tip, thank you!

@rajwateemohan2352 8 ай бұрын

U did a grt job , glue wirked grt .❤

@kayceegreer4418 11 ай бұрын

I love your couch blanket

@stitchnfiction 10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@francesca4166 26 күн бұрын

I don't know if anyone else has said this, but the pattern for this is actually on page 265 of that book!

@robinmckenzie4142 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful job !!! Sooo pretty!!!!

@nanasbabies58 Жыл бұрын

Love it !! Just simply beautiful!!

@miniramirez930 9 күн бұрын

Beautiful

@jenreeves7684 Жыл бұрын

It's so pretty 😊

@daqtaghhasfibers Жыл бұрын

That turned out just beautiful

@sarahrobertson9736 Жыл бұрын

Your videos are so much fun! Thank you for making them.

@stitchnfiction Жыл бұрын

Aww, thank you☺ Thanks for watching them!

@ewaj.6260 6 ай бұрын

Gorgeous

@diannalynnYT Ай бұрын

It's gorgeous!

@leestreeter7265 Жыл бұрын

Incredible good work! It came out beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

@tarafoley6030 9 ай бұрын

I found a bunch of tension rings on amazon that, while fiddly to use at first, really help with the random problems of working with thread weight yarns & threads. They are inexpensive & truly helpful ... P.S. Those loose loops @ the tops of your petals is s tension issue ... Sometimes unavoidable. Keep going ... I think you are my doppleganger ... A!though, I'm approaching 50 yrs. in ... 💕🇨🇦👍

@stitchnfiction 9 ай бұрын

I'll have to try one, thanks for the tip! 😊

@carolkinney1327 6 ай бұрын

FABULOUS job engineering a pattern off that picture! The project turned out great. I loved how you showed how you overcame the difficulties of actually crocheting the project without an actual pattern.. BELIEVE me that happens even with a written pattern depending on the author of the pattern. A question: I have noticed that many crocheters leave an especially long tail to weave in at the end. WHY? I have noticed this while watching KZfaq videos. In response to the question about doing double trebles and triple trebles with the loops a little lose, for me, it's a tension issue. I enjoy the videos.😊❤❤

@stitchnfiction 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! RE: your question about tails - I personally find it easier to weave in the ends with a longer tail, as I get more range of movement with my yarn needle that way. Much easier to cut off excess rather than struggle with a too-short thread. ☺️

@carolkinney1327 6 ай бұрын

What about just using the crochet hook to weave in ends?

@marienaailes Жыл бұрын

Beautiful!!!!

@stitchnfiction Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@cthall7428 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing! Love the pattern!

@stitchnfiction 11 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊

@dorothylavell3038 Жыл бұрын

You are so clever😊it looks amazing. The pink ribbon 🎀 it suited the pattern. Well done 😊

@audreymeyer5616 Жыл бұрын

That is so pretty and I am now inspired to get back into crocheting. I do knit right now and I love it， but I kind of miss crocheting.

@stephaniepavlakos3510 Жыл бұрын

You did a great job. Good save.😊 I don’t like thread 🧵 crochet. Mostly because it’s so tiny. But I love admiring thread crochet.

@sandrag.7861 11 ай бұрын

I loved this little project! I'm new to your channel and I'm loving it. Hope you keep releasing content! 🥰

@stitchnfiction 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I've got more in the works. ☺️

@MelissaBeamer-ve3nn 11 ай бұрын

That’s beautiful! You did a great job, and thank you so much for sharing your process with us! Very interesting. :)

@stitchnfiction 10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@MariaRamirez-jm3cj Ай бұрын

It is absolutely beautiful. I love it. However, what should we do with it. How should we used for. Any ideas?

@maryhardcastle5362 Жыл бұрын

I love the way you figured that out , I did that pattern years back , however my patterns are currently in storage to be moved to a far closer storage now thanks to your reminder I can replicate ...thanks.

@stitchnfiction Жыл бұрын

That's awesome that you've made this pattern too! Did you make the bedspread edging, or do something else with it?

11 ай бұрын

I like it

@carlygronvold3859 Жыл бұрын

Hey just thought I’d drop a tip! For the loose cluster stitches; Since the work is in a circle, when pulling your loop up, angle your hook downward or turn work slightly. The angle helps with keeping the loop in the stitch tight …if that makes any sense at all 😅

@stitchnfiction Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the tip, I will definitely try that next time! ☺️

@suemeeks8133 Жыл бұрын

You could still make a bookmark by crocheting a chain long enough where the flower will stick out of the top and the bottom chain hangs out. Put a tassel on the bottom chain

@stitchnfiction Жыл бұрын

That would be super cute!

@ickachu Жыл бұрын

I think that the x:s in the picture looks more like Crochet Treble Cross Stitch. There is good instructions online. I would recommend looking it up, if you want to have an alternative way of crocheting x:s 😃

@ickachu Жыл бұрын

Although it could of course be the kind of stitches you did, and they also look great and work in the project. I just wanted to give an alternative.

@stitchnfiction Жыл бұрын

That would definitely be another way to do it! When I zoomed in on the example photo it looked to me like the stitches were layered over one another without a connection point in the middle, but the Crochet Treble Cross Stitch would give the same look.

@yazdhenab. Жыл бұрын

5:44 My guess is the petals in the center are triple trebles not trebles, based on the strings I can count on the model (four yarn over instead of two, like you make)

@stitchnfiction 11 ай бұрын

Very possible! I'm a little less familiar with trebles, so may have misjudged those.

@yazdhenab. 11 ай бұрын

Try it, maybe it will turn better ? @@stitchnfiction

@mpgabriel819 11 ай бұрын

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@gaylehenderson603 Жыл бұрын

Try not to go down shaft of hook try to keep thread closer to the hook. My grandmother taught me with thread first before I could use yarn. I was in my late 20s when I tried my first yarn project. Boy did my hands hurt after I was done. 😟

@gaylehenderson603 Жыл бұрын

Oh she started me on crochet by 6 years of age.

@stitchnfiction Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the tip, I'll give that a try next time! ☺️