This is so flipping brilliant its daft! I cannot believe how simple charts now appear to me. Thank you so much, you have opened my eyes to a whole new world! You have a new fan from the UK.
I always have been following the written one but wanted to learn to follow diagrams because the Russian and Japanese patterns using it and they have s much beautiful patterns!
I just have to say YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER! I have avoided patterns using diagrams - they terrified me. With your video and a copy of the Craft Council's chart (the one used in this video), I now feel that I can try and tackle some of those patterns I've admired but avoided. Thanks - I learn more from your videos that from any other source!
Thanks for this video Mikey, I have learned to read charts and now like them much better than slogging through all the written instructions. It really helped me to learn the charts by doing mystery stitch alongs with you as you use the charts with each new clue. Love how you help us grow our crochet knowledge! Thanks Mikey!
I so appreciate you Mikey, you are so easy to follow and sometimes quite humerous. I hope to meet you and shake your hand someday, almost everything Ive learned has come from you. Thanks
BTW the number of slanting (little) lines on the leg of the T (for dc/double dc etc) indicates the amount of wraps, one two three four etc. Charts are so much easier than written notes! also the 1,2,3,4, indicating the rows/rounds usually are placed at the beginning, so if chart has those it makes it all easier!
i find the diagrams are much easier to read and follow , i have a lot of problems reading the written pattern.you are a god sent with this video ... thank you and happy hooking
I first learned this technique when I picked up a crochet book in China Town San Francisco. This makes it so easy - it doesn't matter what language we speak. Thank you for explaining so well.
Mikey, you're the best! However as a returning crocheter (last project was in the '70s) the diagram is totally beyond me... So are spatial relationships of any kind (hee hee). Please continue your wonderful videos of actual crocheting!
Praise God for you, Mickey!!! I started learning crochet thru video tutorials, then learned to follow a written pattern but alas never understood a diagram :( I started to look for help on how to understand a diagram and I praise God I found your video tutorial on How to Read Crochet Diagrams. You have made your tutorial so easy to understand, pleasant to the ears and easy for us to follow. God bless you and THANK YOU so much :) :) :)
This looks like a fun adventure for me. I am just learning to read diagrams and want to be able to read Japanese diagrams for amazing animal patterns. Thank you Mikey! This is very helpful. Love all your videos...and your sense of humor, too. Keep up the great work.
Good job!!! I think I got it!! FINALLY!! and I've watched a LOT of video's on reading GRAPHS! I don't hate them anymore! THANKS for the awesome job of teaching this.
I much rather go off a diagram then written instructions because i am a very visual person i may read one line of the instructions 10 times trying to picture what its saying and what it will look like but i can see what i need to do with the diagram and that makes it so easy for me to know if i have messed up or if yes that is what it should look like. In fact i have an easier time makes something just looking at someones finished project then i do with the written instructions lol
Thank you Mikey. I got an amigurimi book and ALL of the patterns are in diagram for. I've never read a diagram pattern before. I'm hoping this will help me.
Thanks you for this tutorial. I just looked on RU-vid for this so I'd be ready for the next beautiful pattern that I find that only has a diagram and not the words I"m used to. I'm hoping I'll always get the number of stitches correct when there is along line of same stitches required, e.g. 45 of anything.
I prefer diagrams too! I'm English and the lack of standardisation for stitch names is very confusing. For example, the American single crochet is the same stitch as the English double crochet. Charts give us clarity. Thank you.
I prefer diagrams over written instructions any day. Once you know what the symbols mean, it is nothing. It is easier to me and I am an excellent reader. I like being able to see where the stitches line up together on the diagrams.
Mikey thank you so much, you are a crochet god! So sorry you have lost so much work on your computer, hope you recover it somehow. One tiny request for you; the Crochet Crowd app for Android freezes on starting, displaying just a blue screen. I've seen it has been updated in 2013. Do you think you could please take a look at this?
Hi Mikey! I want to start to say thank you for this tutorial, and yes, it is better than the written patterns. However, can you please explain to me how would I know when I should crochet "in the chain" vs. "into the gapping space" when reading a diagram? Thank you for responding.
It may have been helpful to see your finished project from this graph. For me, it's going to be so much more time consuming checking back and forth from project to graph to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing, and getting familiar with what symbol means what stitch.
Thank you for your crochet diagrams. Can you please let me know where I can print the crotchet diagrams which I am used to read rather than words. Thanks
Its funny how everyone learns differently. I would much rather have a written pattern and try to navigate through a chart. They just are too complicated and hard to follow in my opinion. Maybe I'll get better at it one day but until then I avoid using them.
I just learned how to do it and I have a problem. I don't know if it something that I do wrong or the size of my hook is the problem. My work is not as tight as I want it to be especially when I have to chane a few stitches. What can be the cause of this? What do you recommend my hook size should be?
if you actually executed that which you have read on the diagram it would make it more visible because to transfer the diagram to the thread is the hard part , I even understand what the diagram is showing but how to start and where the chains join is something much more needed to learn how to use those diagrams
In the videos we teach, when there is a diagram, I just between the instructions and the yarn part. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zWOC7d_Bn8o.html
I have a question, on charts when you do s stitch in the chain spaces, are you just making your stitches in the space or the actual chains? The chart makes me think I have to do the stitches in the actual chains of the chain spaces.
Sometimes that's important, other times, you can just go into a space. You can make a determination. In the instructions you usually clarifies whether you are crocheting in the space or actual chains itself.
How to Crochet with The Crochet Crowd thank you. I'm sure referring to the actual picture if supplied can help too. Thanks again you've helped me overcome my fear of charts and I am finding they really are less confusing than the endless brackets and parentheses lol.
MIKEY! HELP! I purchased a pattern and it turned out it was a diagram... that's it. I tried to watch your tutorial but this diagram is missing so much. I need someone to convert it to written instructions. I am so done with Etsy.
I find it harder to read being left handed. I have to read it opposite right? Is there one of these for left handed so that it is going in the other direction?
There is no difference of RH or LH Version of this. You read it in the same direction and crochet it with your hands. Whether your are left or right. Some diagrams circle Counter Clock Wise... Some Circle Clockwise... it doesn't matter. :D
ciao i have this problem . i cant anderstanding the patter sed ;ch1.1 sc in seme sp as last sl st. *1sc in each of next 9 sc. 2 sc in next sc. rep from* to last sc .1 sc in last sc. join with sl to first sc. 68sc thank you an sc. excuse my english sorry
considering I crocheter left handed that diagrams are no good to me just writing insturctions are . Because I know that all crocheting and knitting patterns are for right handed . I can knit right handed and crocheter with my left hand
@@TheCrochetCrowd No please don't misunderstand me. I'm not being hateful. Like someone else said, maybe it would help if you crochet as you explained it. Please forgive me if I came across wrong.
I love this video it makes me so happy to kind of understand diagrams well I had a written and a diagram and I've looked and stared and when your done with the square for a poncho? So fun Then the hammer dropped They have me a small box and said now do this on edge Eeep within brackets So I stare at box and try to find the whole edge but I feel it's a repeat but no arrows and no direction Omg Mike I want this 167-26 drops design poncho Say a crochet prayer
I understand all the chart symbols and what not but what confuses me is in garment patterns the actual construction of the garment. Where to add sleeves, where to slip stitch the pieces together and so on.
