I don’t actually have that many crochet books. Hubby bought me ‘Edward’s Imaginarium‘ from Toft which is a fun way to create monsters and I have crochet patterns from assorted magazines.
I do have some digital patterns, both from Toft but also that I have found on Pintrest.
However, I’m a bit of a nightmare with my own patterns. I generally write them on the nearest thing to me while I’m working so that might be my phone, ipad, scrap of paper or the notebook I bought specifically to write my patterns in. I means that I find patterns, or bits of patterns all over the place! Then there’s the manner I write them down. I learned to crochet using American terms but have now made a number of patterns using British crochet terms so I write a weird hybrid. This is fine for me, but I sent a pattern to testers which made for some interesting comments. You can see some of the chaos in my pattern writing in the photo below.
My aim for 2021 is to definitely get more organised with my own pattern writing and storing. Although, given we’re nearly halfway through, I fear there’s no hope for me!
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