rainaramsay:thigm0taxis:diycrochets:My current WIP byFranticunravel@rainaramsay asked: How? Is this
rainaramsay:thigm0taxis:diycrochets:My current WIP by Franticunravel@rainaramsay asked: How? Is this done from the inside out? Outside in? In pieces? I can’t even find the structure; it’s just one integral unit of beautifulThere are more absolutely GORGEOUS photos on both Ravelry (I don’t know how if you need to sign up to see things or not? But it’s free and I don’t remember ever being spammed by them and they recently banned openly pro-Tr*mp content so hey nothing to lose…) here:https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/coral-story-blanket[ETA - click on the “projects” link on the right to see photos from 93 users who have put their own spin on this pattern! Everything from exact copies of the blanket as written to placemats and cushions and different shapes and all different color combos. Ravelry is GREAT for that.]and the pattern (author? inventor? artist?) has a blog post about it here:https://www.lillabjorncrochet.com/2020/05/coral-story-blanket.htmlShe calls it “brioche crochet” but I’ve also seen it called mosaic crochet, to be analagous to mosaic knitting. In both mosaic knitting and mosaic crochet, the work itself is fairly simple because each row (or round if making blocks or shapes like that hexagon - which start at the center and grow out towards the edge) is only using a single color yarn, and the pattern emerges as you carry the colored stitches from one row into an adjacent row. In knitting you slip a stitch so that it ends up pulled from below to show up in the next/current row but in crochet you hook down into/over top of the last row so it ends up dropping from the current row into the previous row - at least that is the theory as I understand it; I’ve made mosaic (and brioche) knitting projects but haven’t done any mosaic/brioche crochet yet. At the links above there are also photos of the back/wrong side of the work, which is helpful to imagine how it was made. (2-color brioche knitting is generally an exact duplicate on the back side, just with the colors switched, and that’s clearly not the case with this crochet technique which is why I personally think of it as mosaic crochet and not brioche crochet. The back side is still very pretty though! Swirly!)This design is something VERY high on my “wow I’d love to make that someday!” list but I am holding off because in addition to having a million WIPs/UFOs already in the works, as it mentions in the blog post this technique uses up a LOT of yarn (since you’re going back over the top of stitches you already made) and crochet is already thicker/heavier/stiffer than knitting and I feel like it would be difficult to find yarn in pretty enough colors to do this design justice AND that’s also very thin and light and soft so the final result won’t weigh 90 pounds AND that I can actually afford to buy in quantities required to make something with this technique (AND that’s not wool for me personally). Anyway - hope that helps!That is SO. Amazing! <3Thank you for the link. Now I’m itching to make one. Add it to the list, I guess. -- source link