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Inspiration can be found anywhere. Case in point: coming home from Stitches West, I was captivated by the pattern on this bag:
Naturally, I had to play with it:
Look close. You’ll see it’s just triangles and squares. My knee-jerk reaction was to render the pattern as a quilt or as a crocheted afghan, where each unit was its own triangle or square. Consider this color scheme:
But then I realized it would be possible to design a crochet motif composed of 15 itty-bitty triangles... so I had to swatch immediately:
Yup. That was a lot faster than creating an entire quilt or afghan! And it seems to have scratched this particular itch.
Want to crochet this motif yourself? It’s only two quick rounds:
(Forgive the rough sketch. Drawing crochet charts by hand is not my strong suit. I really ought to write some software to do this sort of thing...)
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