Diagrams blew my mind when I first started crocheting.  I was the kind of person that could read the pattern words and understand them much better than little overlapping symbols.  All the little straight and squiggly lines in red and black overlapping and weaving through each other......just scattered my brain. LOL!  But I took that as a challenge and while practice makes perfect, I kept practicing crochet with easier patterns while I learned how to read diagrams.



In stepped Mikey from The Crochet Crowd!!  I love his YouTube Channel.  I have read MANY blog posts, books, magazines and instructional material on crochet diagrams.  I pulled my information from every direction possible to learn.  Mikey has made the BEST pattern tutorials around!!  Here I am providing them for you.  Enjoy!

This is an 8 part series on how to read patterns (including diagrams!)

So my questions to you are:

• Do you use diagrams or written patterns?
• What other advice for this would you share with others?

Connect with Mikey on his blog The Crochet Crowd Blog and on Facebook The Crochet Crowd.

Leave me your comments below on any other tips you may have? Also, if you have another topic you wish for me to investigate, leave me a comment sharing your ideas too!

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