Tales of a Techno-Hooker Crochet Blog by Amie Hirtes

Birthing. That’s what I call it. I don’t make patterns. I don’t write patterns. I birth them. When I’m done, I’m exhausted, wishing I had opted for that epidural, and happy the screaming is over. It’s the closest thing to real live birth I’ll ever experience. No, really. Yes, self-publishing patterns – the way I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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I was psyched yesterday when Mr. NexStitch hooked up a wire in my car to run from my car stereo to my new iPhone so I could use the iPod feature of the phone and have the audio play out of the car speakers. Now, I can listen to podcasts instead of morning talk radio [...]