luckygrrl
December 6, 2005, 07:40 PM
Okay, I have NEVER heard of slip chain. I tried looking it up online, with no help at all! I can only find it mentioned on about three patterns online. I am wracking my brain over here. What is this elusive stitch? :think I'm not even sure I'm calling it the right thing. It might just be "slip" with the next instruction telling you it's in the chain.. I have no idea. All I know is that it's not straight ol' slip stitch, otherwise it would say that. lol
Here's the pattern (http://www.crochetmemories.com/archive/Snowflake.html).
It's in Round 3:
Rnd 3) Sl st in next sp; (ch 3, dc, ch 2, 2 dc) in same sp, slip ch 8 from rnd 2 through ch 8 from rnd 1, (3 sc) in top of ch 8 sp; * (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc) in next ch 3 sp, slip ch 8 from rnd 2 through ch 8 from rnd 1, (3 sc) in top of ch 8 sp; rep from * around; join with a sl st to 3rd ch of beg ch 3: 18 sc/6 ch 2-sps/24 dc.
I am showing you a pic of what I have up until what's bolded, to make it easier to understand:
http://www.tashamoss.com/crochet/slip_chain1.gif
** NOTE: I just caught a mistake of mine that has nothing to do with my question, but just in case you're wondering, yes, there's supposed to be one more dc in the space where my last dc was made.
and then the same thing up close:
http://www.tashamoss.com/crochet/slip_chain2.gif
What the heck am I supposed to be doing?? I tried to figure it out from the picture along with the pattern, but nope, that just confused me more. I thought perhaps it meant basically to go through each ch from each rnd, slip stitching the chains together. But that seems wrong because the two chain 8 rows are separated by about a chain, so it seems like there'd be weird little bumps where you did your first and last slip stitch together. Also, the thing that gets me is that the next thing you're supposed to do, after the slip ch 8 from rnd 2 through ch 8 from rnd 1, is (3 sc) in top of ch 8 sp. If you did what I was thinking the slip chain would be, you'd be at the end of the ch 8 and thus wouldn't be able to do 3 sc in the top of the space.
So what am I supposed to be doing?? I am completely baffled.
Here's the pattern (http://www.crochetmemories.com/archive/Snowflake.html).
It's in Round 3:
Rnd 3) Sl st in next sp; (ch 3, dc, ch 2, 2 dc) in same sp, slip ch 8 from rnd 2 through ch 8 from rnd 1, (3 sc) in top of ch 8 sp; * (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc) in next ch 3 sp, slip ch 8 from rnd 2 through ch 8 from rnd 1, (3 sc) in top of ch 8 sp; rep from * around; join with a sl st to 3rd ch of beg ch 3: 18 sc/6 ch 2-sps/24 dc.
I am showing you a pic of what I have up until what's bolded, to make it easier to understand:
http://www.tashamoss.com/crochet/slip_chain1.gif
** NOTE: I just caught a mistake of mine that has nothing to do with my question, but just in case you're wondering, yes, there's supposed to be one more dc in the space where my last dc was made.
and then the same thing up close:
http://www.tashamoss.com/crochet/slip_chain2.gif
What the heck am I supposed to be doing?? I tried to figure it out from the picture along with the pattern, but nope, that just confused me more. I thought perhaps it meant basically to go through each ch from each rnd, slip stitching the chains together. But that seems wrong because the two chain 8 rows are separated by about a chain, so it seems like there'd be weird little bumps where you did your first and last slip stitch together. Also, the thing that gets me is that the next thing you're supposed to do, after the slip ch 8 from rnd 2 through ch 8 from rnd 1, is (3 sc) in top of ch 8 sp. If you did what I was thinking the slip chain would be, you'd be at the end of the ch 8 and thus wouldn't be able to do 3 sc in the top of the space.
So what am I supposed to be doing?? I am completely baffled.