More Heart Stitch Chart Uses

stitchpoint Heart Stitch Chart Use

I compiled a list before about what you can do with filet crochet/cross stitch embroidery charts and offered a heart stitch chart, now I found still more inspiration: you can e.g. show your rabbit that you love it ;-)

 


Links:
More Heart Stitch Chart Uses (Heart Stitched on Cardboard)

Here ati unikatissima:
What Can You Do With Filet Crochet/Cross Stitch Embroidery Charts?
Beaded Square Stitch Heart
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Crochet Doily

Andrea Kreativ Crochet Doily

I find this doily very interesting, too – to work, not to put anywhere ;-))
On the other hand it should give a great jacket, if you sew together several of them?!
;-)

 

The instruction is in German, but charted, so I translated the meaning of the symbols.
At the links below I added links to tutorials on how to make the stitches for you to see what I’m talking about ;-)
Andrea Kreativ Crochet Doily Legend


Links:
Crochet Doily (Zauberhaftes Deckchen) (German) => there is a PDF download (~ 2,3 MB)

Here at unikatissima:
Clothes From Crocheted Medaillons

Freeform Crocheted Sphere Lamps

initiative-handarbeit Freeform Crocheted Sphere Lamps

I find the lamps funny ;-)
Especially because you don’t do anything else than freeform crochet on the spherical lamp frames.

But I won’t make them because my ceiling is very low and I had always to go round the lamps ;-))
But I have more lamps ‘on offer’ ;-))

 

Because the instruction is in German, here a (very short) translation:

You need: sphere lamp frame, different yarns (funky yarns, cotton, wool, ribbon yarn and so on, all in white or nature colours), big crochet hooks (5 mm and 7 mm (for conversion of crochet hooks see links below)) and if you like some big paillettes.

Patterns: They say that it looks best if you use a lot of patterns.
You can find inspiration in their PDF file, where they use the following stitches:
= ch (Chain)
= sc (Single crochet)
= dc (Double crochet)
= V st (V-stitch)
= ps (Puff stitch)
= shell (Shell stitch) with 4 dc, 3 ch, 1 dc
If you click the stitch names here above, you can see how these stitches are worked.

How to: Begin on top: crochet a chain ring to lay around the top opening. Crochet rings of patterns around the lamp, but they say that it looks great, too, if you change the pattern often by e.g. working crochet medaillons and adding them into your patterns.
They suggest to best crochet directly on the lamp frame so that you always can see whether it still fits.
They say that it was better to work too narrow than too wide and that they often worked with a couple of threads at a time with 7 mm needles.

Finish: Sew everything on at the top and bottom of the lamp frame. Cut from all threads fringes of about 1,60 m/4,5-5 inches and add to the bottom edge. If you like to, add some big paillettes.


Links:
Freeform Crocheted Sphere Lamps (Umhäkelte Leuchtkörper) (German)

Stitch descriptions:
ch (Chain)
sc (Single crochet)
dc (Double crochet)
V st (V-stitch)
ps (Puff stitch)
shell (Shell stitch)

Possibly helpful sites:
Crochet Hook Sizes And Conversions
Converting a pattern from US terms to UK terms

Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘box’
Entries with the tag ‘lampshade’

Random Knitting Chart Generator

babyzcostumeshop Random Knitting Chart Generator

As said before I looked recently for pattern generators and found also the random knitting chart generator.
I find this idea so great, somewhen I must knit this pattern ;-)

For the lace pattern on the picture I checked knit, purl, knit two together and yarn over, I didn’t check mirrored.

By the way I learned about this through the Ravelry group ‘Random Pattern Generators’, they found my generators also great ;-))


Links:
Random Knitting Chart Generator (Random Knitting Chart)
via: Ravelry group ‘Random Pattern Generators’

Here at unikatissima:
Kumihimo Pattern Planner

Maze Pattern Generator
Pattern Generator (Cellular Automaton)
Random Squares Pattern Generator
With this comes the entry ‘What Can You Do With Filet Crochet/Cross Stitch Embroidery Charts?’
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Kumihimo Pattern Planner

Lytha Studios Kumihimo Pattern Planner

Recently I looked again for pattern generators, after all I made some myself (see links below ;-)) and I want to know what great ideas other people have ;-)

One of these great ideas ist the Kumihimo pattern planner.
You can get with it the initial position of the threads for a simple 8-braid for a given pattern.
They didn’t explain what a ‘simple 8-braid’ is but I think that it is the same as in my Kumihimo entry, I didn’t have the time to check this, yet.


Links:
Lytha Studios KumiPlanner – Kumihimo Pattern Design Application – Beta

Here at unikatissima:
Kumihimo – here you can find also a template for a brainding disk (Marudai) that you can make yourself from cardboard

Entries with the tag ‘Kumihimo’

Maze Pattern Generator
Pattern Generator (Cellular Automaton)
Random Squares Pattern Generator
With this comes the entry ‘What Can You Do With Filet Crochet/Cross Stitch Embroidery Charts?’
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Filet Crochet in Rounds

unikatissima Filet Crochet in Rounds

Filet crochet in rounds? What for?
Well, I find that it looks simply better with symmetrical patterns like those of the random squares pattern generator :)
It can that you don’t see any difference from far away, but from close I find it more beautiful if the stripes pattern made from the double crochets radiates from the center.

 

unikatissima Filet Crochet in Rounds
And that’s how the same pattern looks if filet crocheted the normal way.
The other one is much more beautiful, isn’t it?
;-)

 

Actually it’s another form of crochet medaillons, that you simply join.

 


That’s how it works:

The start:

unikatissima Filet Crochet in Rounds You can have a filled or empty middle square

 

unikatissima Filet Crochet in Rounds …that you crochet the normal way:
You crochet the empty middle square from 4 ch for the ‘bottom’, 3 ch for the right side, 2 ch for the ‘lid’ and 1 dc for the left side (that are 9 chains and one double crochet in the first chain) and
 
you crochet the filled middle square from 4 ch for the ‘bottom’, 3 ch for the right side, 3 dc for the ‘filling’ (these are 7 chains and three double crochets in the first three chains).

 

unikatissima Filet Crochet in Rounds Or you can have four filled or empty middle squares.

 

unikatissima Filet Crochet in Rounds You can crochet the empty middle squares the normal way, too (7 ch for the bottom of two squares, 3 ch for the right side, 2 ch for the ‘lid’, 1 dc for the side, 2 ch for the ‘lid’ of the left square and 1 dc for the left side), then turn and add two more squares on top.
 
 
 
You should begin the filled middle squares in the center: 4 ch for the bottom of the 1st square, 3 ch for the side of the 1st square, 3 dc for the filling and the other side of the 1st square, then 3 ch for the side of the 2nd square, 3 dc for the filling and the other side of the 2nd square in the last dc of the 1st square, continue this way until you have crocheted all four squares.

 

The rest:

unikatissima Filet Crochet in Rounds Here you see using the example of an empty middle square from the top how to continue: you crochet 3 ch for the side of the 2nd square(!) of the 2nd round, 3 dc to fill and finish the 2nd square. For the empty corner square you crochet ‘around the corner’: simply 5 ch and a filled square again by crocheting 4 dc. Continue this way until you join the round with a slip stitch at the end.

 

unikatissima Filet Crochet in Rounds For filled corner squares you always(!) crochet it to be the first of the side by crocheting 3 ch as for the empty square but then you crochet the following two dc in the last dc of the previous square.

 

unikatissima Filet Crochet in Rounds Here you can see again how a filet crochet square worked in rounds with one middle square is constructed (I turned the numbers so that you also can see the work direction of the actual square).
You can see at squares 2 und 10 that you begin a round always in the same column.

 

unikatissima Filet Crochet in Rounds And here you can see how a filet crochet square worked in rounds with four middle squares is constructed (here again I turned the numbers so that you also can see the work direction of the actual square).
You can see at squares 5 und 17 that you begin a round always in the same column.

 

The used pattern:

That’s the pattern I used for the swatches, I let it generate with the Random Squares Pattern Generator.
Of course ;-)
(To save the pictures click them with the right mouse button and select ‘Save image as…’ or similar)

The pattern:
unikatissima Filet Crochet in Rounds Pattern unikatissima Filet Crochet in Rounds Pattern

 

The quarter pattern:
unikatissima Filet Crochet in Rounds Pattern unikatissima Filet Crochet in Rounds Pattern

 

The border:
unikatissima Filet Crochet in Rounds Pattern

 

The repeated pattern:
unikatissima Filet Crochet in Rounds Pattern

 

And perhaps the whole as a summer shawl, straight or triangular:
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Well, the whole thing is ‘cheated’ from photos of my swatches, especially ‘cheated’ because a single square is crocheted from cotton thread and has only a side length of about 10 cm. As per Pythagoras Calculator the triangular shawl was about 70 cm at the longest side and therefore rather a kerchief ;-))

 


Links:
Here at unikatissima:
Random Squares Pattern Generator
Clothes From Crocheted Medaillons
Entries containing the word ‘medaillon’
Online Pythagoras Calculator

Instructions for filet crochet:
Filethäkel-Anleitung (CROCHET TUTORIAL) (English)
Filethäkeln-Grundanleitung (German)

At both tutorials there are instructions for increasing and decreasing, too, which you can use e.g. for the triangular half squares of the triangular shawl on the photo.

Random Squares Pattern Generator

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I can’t remember why I wanted to let generate square mirrored random patterns: it took me so long to finish my random squares pattern generator ;-)

But I must say now that I’m really amazed of the generated patterns!
I sat already for hours and let make patterns and saved them ;-)
Personally I prefer the patterns of a width from about 15 squares to 35 squares: the patterns are very varied and you can recongnize very well the mirroring of the patterns. The bigger they get the more they seem merely random and then I don’t like them anymore.
By the way: up until now I haven’t had no pattern twice except for the really little ones!

I even tried some patterns already! ;-))
I knitted and filet crocheted some swatches, there was no time for more yet, but I must say as always: you can make muuuch more from the patterns than only filet crochet and cross stich!

Have fun with my random squares pattern generator!

P.S.: By the way, you can find the patterns from the top at the random squares pattern generator under ‘Completed patterns’, they are both 25 squares wide :)


Links:
Here at unikatissima:
Random Squares Pattern Generator
What Can You Do With Filet Crochet/Cross Stitch Embroidery Charts?
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Random Squares Pattern Generator

(The Random Squares Pattern Generator does not work anymore because Adobe discontinued the flash player.)
 
(Note the scrollbar directly here on the right, use it e.g. to reach the save buttons.
The page can get long and I couldn’t adjust the length dynamically.)

 


Frequently asked questions:

  • Question: What about property rights?
    Answer:
    I thought that I make it easy ;-)
    You may

    • let generate as many random squares patterns as you like,
    • adapt and vary the patterns and
    • create from the original or your patterns what takes your fancy;
    • sell the produced items and
    • I don’t mind if you link to this site or
    • give credit to unikatissima ;)
    • not sell random squares patterns created with my random squares patterns generator!
    • not embed my random squares patterns generator into your site and
    • not claim the patterns as your own.

     

  • Question: What can I do with these patterns apart from filet crochet and cross stitch?
    Answer:
    Such patterns can be used to work with many techniques, check my entry about what you can do with filet crochet and cross stitch patterns or see e.g. the Advent mittens at ravelry – most beautiful :);

     
  • Frage: What’s this with the ‘speed up the pattern generation’?
    Antwort:
    If you let generate many big patterns it can happen that your computer gets slower, that depends on technical conditions that I couldn’t consider while programming.
    Best if you reload this whole page from time to time.
    This is mostly done with the browser menu commands ‘View’ => ‘Refresh’ or similar.
     
     
  • Question: The saving of an overview or a pattern takes sometimes a lot of time! Why?
    Answer:
    The answer has two parts:

    • On the one hand the time that the random squares pattern generator needs to save a chart depends on the size of the graphic.
    • In case that you’re still using the Flash Player 9 everything works but the saving process takes longer than with the Flash Player 10.
      If you want to update your Flash Player you can do this directly at Adobe.
      If you don’t know which version you are using you can let display the version at Adobe, too.

     

  • Question: My friend can let generate larger random squares patterns than I can. Why?
    Answer:
    This depends on your Flash Player version, version 9 oder 10. The Flash Player 10 can generate larger random squares patterns.
    If you want to update your Flash Player you can do this directly at Adobe.
    If you don’t know which version you are using you can let display the version at Adobe, too.
     
     
  • Frage: What are the overviews and patterns for? And why do they have such strange names?
    Antwort:
    unikatissima Random Square Generator unikatissima Random Square Generator The overview is the small picture, the pattern the larger one that you can use to work in different techniques.
    I like to let generate different random squares patterns and found, that I can’t see from the actual patterns whether I like them. Therefore I always compare the overviews and print then the random squares patterns with the same name identification code, e.g. is the overview called ‘unikatissima_RS_15_7kD_OV.png’ (OV = overview) and the pattern ‘unikatissima_RS_15_7kD_PT.png’ (PT = pattern).
    If I only need the quarter pattern (e.g. when I want to work in rounds) I’m printing the overview ‘unikatissima_RS_15_7kD_OVQ.png’ (OVQ = overview quarter) and the pattern ‘unikatissima_RS_15_7kD_PTQ.png’ (PTQ = pattern quarter).
    I never actually print the border (‘unikatissima_RS_15_7kD_OVB.png’ (OVB = overview border)) and the repeated pattern (‘unikatissima_RS_15_7kD_OVR.png’ (OVR = overview repeated pattern)), but they can help you to find out whether you really like the random squares pattern, because the pattern repeated in one or both directions looks often very different from the single one.
     
     
  • Frage: Can I get back the last pattern?
    Antwort:
    No. Every time that you click on ‘create (new) pattern’ everything that has been seen before is removed or overwritten.
    Hypothetically speaking the last pattern could be generated a second time if you let generate enough patterns, but this hasn’t happen to me not yet although I have let generate thousands of patterns already.
    So save everything immediately if you like it! :))
     
     
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    Credits:
    Just as for the last programs and generators I want to thank RIAmore.eu.
    Left alone it would have taken me ‘foreverer’ to realize the random squares pattern generator.
    And I presumably would have despaired on it ;-))

     


    Completed patterns:
    While working on my random squares pattern generator of course I generated looots of mazes – and most of them I found beautiful enough to save.
    I give here some of them for your use. Simply click them with the right mouse button and select ‘Save image as…’ (or something like that).
    I suggest strongly to save the overviews as well!
    Please note that you accept my copyright terms by saving/downloading the pictures.

    Please keep in mind that your items can look quite different if the unit represented by a square isn’t square!
    A unit could be a stitch, a bead or a knot and so on. See also the entry ‘What Can You Do With Filet Crochet/Cross Stitch Embroidery Charts?’.

    I’m giving here ‘only’ one pattern with a width of 15 squares and two with a width of 25 squares, bigger ones would be beyond the bounds of this page.
    And additionally they all look simply stunning (well, nearly all anyway), I can’t present so many ;-)

     

    Width of 15 squares
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    Width of 25 squares
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    Width of 25 squares
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