ENTRIES FOR THE GIVEAWAY ARE NOW CLOSED. Thanks to everyone who participated! I enjoyed reading all your responses. A winner will be selected at random tomorrow. Good luck everyone! REVIEW Stitch dictionaries are the most used books in all of my book collection (and that’s saying a lot because my library spans crochet, cookbooks, photography, [...]
Archive for the tag 'symbol chart'
April 1 2009
Crochet Symbol Charting Using Adobe Illustrator CS3 (Part 3: Working in Rows)
Now that you know how to make slip and chain stitches as well as single, double, and treble crochets, let’s talk about how we can group our stitches to make a simple chart. Open a new document and save it. Call it whatever you like. I’m calling my “First Symbol Chart.” The Setup There are a [...]
March 29 2009
Crochet Symbol Charting Using Adobe Illustrator CS3 (Part 2: Making Basic Stitches)
Picking up where we left off in the first lesson, I am going to show you how to create a single crochet stitch, which in turn, will get you on the path to creating other basic stitches. (If you haven’t read that lesson, I would do so as I won’t be reviewing too much from [...]
March 28 2009
Crochet Symbol Charting Using Adobe Illustrator CS3 (Part 1: The Basics)
I get asked a lot by fellow designers how to do use certain aspects of Adobe Illustrator to create symbols for charting, so I figured I’d shed some light on that process. I don’t anticipate covering every aspect of this topic. I’ll be breezing through the basics which will get any aspiring designer on the [...]
