Fan Bookmark CAL (need help too Lol~)

[Marlena]

Ok I am working on a bookmark made of fans it's very pretty

http://crochetroo.blogspot.com/2006/05/fan-bookmark.html

There is the link. I don't know if the directions were written poorly or if I'm just not reading them right but I can't seem to follow them and have it still look like the picture. After row 1 I'm confused, it says to turn (which turns away from the 1sc 2ch from the first row) and for row two says to work INTO the first sc from row 1. But if I'm turning how would I work into what I just turned away from?
AAAH Someone please make this bookmark with me and tell me I'm not crazy!? LOL!!!

[Brandybuck]

The author of that pattern is here on Crochetville, her name here is cupcake. If you have any questions I'm sure she'd be more than glad to help!

Also, are you reading the Australian or American instructions?

[Marlena]

I'm reading the american...
Thank you I will send her a PM! I think I just cant read LOL:oops

[Butterfly04]

I like the bookmark and plan on making some for the charity that my business is involved in. Is this a CAL? Is the pattern correct?

[yarnlover66]

I've made several of these lately. They are fun and fast to make!

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a36/yarnlover66/Crochet%20Projects/fanbookmarks.jpg

I haven't been able to keep any for myself. As soon as someone sees me making one, they ask if they can have it. I like the variegaed threads better.

[nightowl]

After row 1 I'm confused, it says to turn (which turns away from the 1sc 2ch from the first row) and for row two says to work INTO the first sc from row 1. But if I'm turning how would I work into what I just turned away from?
AAAH Someone please make this bookmark with me and tell me I'm not crazy!? LOL!!!

Heh,you're not crazy, Marlena! It's just a typo. It should read "the first DC from Row 1". I checked it against the UK/Australian version.

Smiles,

[Marlena]

Butterfly I believe the pattern is correct it just is missing some commas which, for me, made it a little harder to understand. But it's also my first time crocheting a bookmark so that probably doesn't help! Lol
I'm gonna make some, are you? :cheer

I've made several of these lately. They are fun and fast to make!

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a36/yarnlover66/Crochet%20Projects/fanbookmarks.jpg

I haven't been able to keep any for myself. As soon as someone sees me making one, they ask if they can have it. I like the variegaed threads better.

Those are beautiful!!! I really love the colors you used for yarn. 5 stars to the designer of this pattern, it is so pretty! :clap
What brand of thread do you buy? I bought some variegaed but it was just to practice with, DMC's Senso size 3 i think.
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[darski]

I am really liking this pattern. I can't use thread but I'm thinking it would make a great MAM afghan.

Can't join your CAL but thanks for pointing this out to me again. I was going to try it but didn't get around to it til you asked your question. Funny thing is I didn't even see the mistake. Just did what I expected it to say. That could explain wy I often get in trouble in other patterns eh?

[cupcake]

Well crikey gee!

Heaps of peops have made this and you are the first to spot the error.

I guess it was written poorly! The challenge for me was that this pattern had been in my head for a few decades, I then wrote it up for the ville in Australian/British terms (my native tongue) and then converted into American terms. Believe it or not this pattern has also been tested.

I have fixed the mistake so that it now reads correctly.

Sorry about that!

Make sure you post up your finished book mark as they are really pretty. :manyheart

Ok I am working on a bookmark made of fans it's very pretty

http://crochetroo.blogspot.com/2006/05/fan-bookmark.html

There is the link. I don't know if the directions were written poorly or if I'm just not reading them right but I can't seem to follow them and have it still look like the picture. After row 1 I'm confused, it says to turn (which turns away from the 1sc 2ch from the first row) and for row two says to work INTO the first sc from row 1. But if I'm turning how would I work into what I just turned away from?
AAAH Someone please make this bookmark with me and tell me I'm not crazy!? LOL!!!

[Marlena]

well cupcake I love this pattern anyways :) I went back to the link and it says the page doesn't exist ... did it get moved?

[cupcake]

http://crochetroo.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_crochetroo_archive.html

I didnt move it. All I did was correct the error. I am not sure what has happened here.:think

It is down the bottom of the page on the link.

[amdm]

I love this pattern. I have made two long strips of it and used them as insertions. It is as pretty as it is quick to make.

[darski]

I love this pattern in varigated yarn and it is hard to find patterns that allow, let alone showcase, the varigateds.

It is going to become an afghan at some point in my WIM's

[Adri]

I want to make this bookmark too! Today at the market I found some variegated cotton no. 8 thread. It's dusty rose, tan and some other colours in there too. So I just printed out the instructions and I'll be starting soon. How are your bookmarks coming along?

[Marlena]

I finished 3! A variegated one, a pink and a red one. I need to take pics asap! they are SO gorgeous

[Adri]

well yesterday i started on my bookmark and I've already got 5 fans done! this pattern works up so fast!

i'm wondering if everyone who has done this has starched it?? I think i'd like to try, but i've never starched anything before :think

[cupcake]

I use spray starch. It gives them body without making them stiff as a board.

[yarnlover66]

I spray starch mine also.

[heart]

I absolutely love cupcakes pattern!! The fans are soooo pretty!! Making some to give to the rescue mission in gifts this Christmas.

[MyGirlFriday]

:cheer these are lovely~glad I was just nosing around checking things out!!!
mgf~ :frog

[amalapert]

They're so beautiful!! Thanks for posting them. I'm going to attempt one too. I have a secret sister in my MOPS program that we're supposed to give little pick-me-up's and this would be great - who doesn't need a really pretty bookmark? :) Now I need some new yarn...lololol

[amalapert]

I don't have the crochet thread on hand but I decided to try it out with my old cross stitch embroidery thread, just to see if I could do the pattern since I'm a beginner. Well apparently I can't.

Can someone tell me where I went wrong? I think the first fan is fine but I somehow have the placement of the second one wrong. Row by row pictures would be great! LOL And are we starting with the top fan or the bottom one?http://webpages.charter.net/laurie/crochet/fan.JPG

Thanks!
Laurie

[darski]

The chain that you created to start your second ( you are building up) fan is going the wrong way. In the picture you took it left and down, it needs to go right and up and be joined there.

[amalapert]

OK, I can see that. But the directions say (for the end of the first fan)

Into the next (11th space) work 1sc, then 5ch, skip 3 spaces and work 1sc into 2nd ch of first dc post of row 2. TURN. (This completes fan 1)

Sounds like I'm doing the 5ch and joining it to the beginning of that fan. Or should there be a turn in there or is it the last DC post instead of the first one? I'm all cornfused. LOL The directions sound to me like I'm making it a circle and I know that's not right.

UPDATE:
OK, I figured it out - it was the first DC post of row 2 but I was thinking it was the last one because I was up another row, if that makes any sense. Anyway, I have it figured out now. Thanks again for setting me right! LOL ;)

[darski]

The first DC post is the chain three that you used to start row 2. You should join your chain 5 into that 3rd chain of chain three.

In addition, you seem to have gone too far making your picots into the chain 1 spaces. If you had stopped with the one in the 11th space, and made your chain five it would be natural to join it in that ch3 starting post. you would then turn and begin the next steps

*a chain 3 shall be deemed to be a DC post no matter what it looks like to you or me :D

[Adri]

I finished my fans!! :yes
They are posted here: http://www.crochetville.org/forum/showthread.php?t=34945
After I ironed the bookmark it looked a lot better. I think I'll leave it without starching.
Thanks Marlena for starting this CAL!

[cupcake]

Adri that turned out well.


amala pert, this is one of the first patterns I ever wrote up. It was in my noggon for several years. If any one can think of an easier way to explain things, please let me know and I will update the pattern.

Cheerio!

[tabbyj1]

Thanks to cupcake for creating/writing up this gorgeous pattern, and to Marlena for starting this CAL! I didn't post here before, but I just turned out my first bookmark. It was really easy once I got the first fan figured out. I still didn't understand the whole 'skip 3 spaces' thing, but I think I got things put in the correct general area :) I did mine in a variegated bright multicolor thread, and it turned out really cute. Not sophisticated like many of the examples so far, but I'm doing this for a teenager and thought it would be cute and happy-looking for her. I really like the cheery colors, and even got a 'wow' out of dh when he saw what I made! Ah, satisfaction ;)
Thanks again,
Tabby

[amalapert]

I did a shorter version for my secret sister in MOPS. :) I had a few problems - couldn't find size 8 thread, even though I went to Michaels and Hobby Lobby. So I ended up using size 10. They don't have a lot of pretty verigated ones either. Where do you guys get the pretty stuff? LOL And I used a bigger hook than was called for but it was still pretty hard to keep the thread on the hook. But a 10 is smaller than 8, right? I've never used thread before for crochet so maybe it's just the medium itself that does that. Any advice is appreciated. ;) Here's what I did... it's a verigated ocean blues color but I have video card issues and can't tell if it's bright enough to see. LOL ANyway, I'm pretty proud of myself since I'm a beginner. :)

http://webpages.charter.net/laurie/crochet/fanbookmark.JPG

[amalapert]

It wasn't your directions. It was me. My first problem was that I did the picots all the way across that first row, instead of just doing 10 of them. That was probably where I really went wrong. LOL Then when you said, "first DC of last row", I was thinking it was across the fan but since we'd turned the work, it was the one under where I was currently working. Darski set me straight on that. The directions make perfect sense if you FOLLOW them. ROFL Thanks for a beautiful project! :)

[eyrthmother1]

I did a shorter version for my secret sister in MOPS. :) I had a few problems - couldn't find size 8 thread, even though I went to Michaels and Hobby Lobby. So I ended up using size 10. They don't have a lot of pretty verigated ones either. Where do you guys get the pretty stuff? LOL And I used a bigger hook than was called for but it was still pretty hard to keep the thread on the hook. But a 10 is smaller than 8, right? I've never used thread before for crochet so maybe it's just the medium itself that does that. Any advice is appreciated. ;) Here's what I did... it's a verigated ocean blues color but I have video card issues and can't tell if it's bright enough to see. LOL ANyway, I'm pretty proud of myself since I'm a beginner. :)

http://webpages.charter.net/laurie/crochet/fanbookmark.JPG


You did an awsome job on them and should be proud. I've never worked w/ size 8 yarn and just used the 10 for it as well.

Now I am on the jealous side for the simple fact that the stores here do not have the since the stores here do not seem to have the ocean varigated size 10. And I LOVE blues. hmm.... might have to look into hunting the store managers down to order it. :think

Sandy

[cupcake]

That looks fantastic. Because your thread sizes are different fron ours I have no idea what an 8 is...:lol

[Adri]

amalapert what a great job you did!! I love the colours. the shorter version looks good too.
Here where I am a size 8 thread is thicker that a 10. I think a 10 or even smaller would be indicated for putting inside a book.

[sophie]

Here's my first bookmark! I love this pattern. I made mine smaller also because all I had was #10 thread. Will have to look for something smaller. I would like to see it look more "dainty"

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l254/sofro/th_FanBookmark.jpg (http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l254/sofro/FanBookmark.jpg)

Thanks Cupcake for the pattern! It's my favorite bookmark and I love reading your blog and your downunder expressions :ty

[amalapert]

Sophie - I love those pinks! That was what I was looking for but had no luck. Thanks to everyone else for the encouragements! I think I'll use a bigger hook next time and see if I can do the full 8 of them. My eyes and fingers hurt so much at the end of the 5, I had to stop. lol Sandy, I found the blue at Hobby Lobby. You might check their website if you don't have one near you.
I wonder if a fabric store might have a bigger variety? Anyone know? I have JoAnn's and Hancock fabrics around here that I might need to check out.

[eyrthmother1]

<snip> Sandy, I found the blue at Hobby Lobby. You might check their website if you don't have one near you.
I wonder if a fabric store might have a bigger variety? Anyone know? I have JoAnn's and Hancock fabrics around here that I might need to check out.

locally we have Walmart, Jo-ann's, and K-mart (though K-mart is out of the way). There is a Hobby Lobby an hour East of me and an A.C. Moore about an hour north of me, and I have to be doing a work demo on the 14th and will go past the Hobby Lobby. Will check then. Thanks for the info, (sorry for the long response, lol. my typing reflects my thought insanity :D)

Sandy