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[smeddley]

Wendy the Water Drop (Ravelry and web) and Bob the Blood Drop (Ravelry and web) and please ignore the visible dog hair, dog butt, and stuffed 'possum butt...

I have what I think is a great idea for my next pattern, but first I really, really, really have to finish my hip scarves (belly dance) and second Tetris afghan... I just don't have the motivation some days...

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[trulybloom]

Excellent - thank you! I know what I'm making this weekend!

[smeddley]

Do share if you do, and please let me know of any problems with the pattern. I'm very new at pattern-writing, and it's the only way I'll get better!

[trulybloom]

I am just about to go to the shop to pick up some yarn and start this project! But, I do have three questions:

1. It appears to me that the pattern starts at the bottom and ends at the small tip - is that correct?
2. I'm new at pattern reading and wasn't positive what you meant by "SC 2tog". Does it mean to work a SC in every other stitch of the row below?
3. Are you English or American, because I think (though I could be wrong) that the English SC is different from the American SC.

I appreciate your willingness to help!

I'm very excited to try this!

[smeddley]

1. Actually, the pattern starts at the tip, and works down to the bottom.

2. Sort of - it's a decrease, where you single crochet two stitches together. So, pull up a loop through the first SC, then pull up a loop through the next SC, then yarn over and pull through all three loops on the hook. And where on the previous row you had two stitches, you now only have one on the current row. There are other methods of decreasing, and if you like one of those better, it'd be fine to use it instead. Also, I should note that when you get to the end of a round/row it may not be an even pattern repeat, but you just stop wherever in the pattern you run out of stitches on the previous row.

3. I am American, though, yes, the terms are very different (I think a US double crochet is a British single crochet). I peeked at your profile, and, sadly, unlike you, this is very much Kansas... D:

Go for it - you can't really screw it up, because whatever you end up with, all you have to do is hold your head up and say "I meant for it to look like that" and it's alllllll good. :D And who knows, you might end up with something better, though in that case you are contractually obligated to share the new, better pattern - it's in the invisible print on the back side of the web page... ;)