| One of the books I won while I was at the CGOA conference was; 365 Crochet Stitches a Year Perpetual Calendar by Jean Leinhauser and Rita Weiss. It is a great book with so many stitches to learn. I know that my life will not realistically allow me to do a different stitch everyday. I am going to try to commit to doing 2 different ones a week. I have decided to make Thursdays my designated Perpetual Calendar day. I am not one to follow the rules so of course I will not start at the begining and work my way through from cover to cover, I will instead jump around and do differnt types of stitches. I will show a photo of the stitches for that week and I will let you know my thoughts on it. Maybe in two years or so when I have completed every stitch I will put them all together and make an afghan. Week 1 Swatch A January 1 "V-Stitch" OK, so i did decide to start at the beginning but I wanted to get my feet wet before I just dove in. This is a simple V-Stitch, it went quite quickly and makes a very nice pattern.  |
| Week 1 Swatch A |
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Swatch 1 close-up of stitches |
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| Week 1 Swatch B |
Week 1 Swatch B
January 15 Simple Stitch
This is a row of sc followed by a row of dc repeated.
It also makes a nice simple pattern. I use this sometimes in my designs when I want the movement of double crochet but just a touch of the firmness that single crochet provides.
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| Swatch B close-up of stitches |
