Muster: The Last Butterfly Schal (German)

Hallo ihr Lieben,

anbei findet ihr die Übersetzung des "The Last Butterfly"-Schal von Michelle.

Das Muster nutzt zwei Maschenarten, deren deutsche Übersetzung ich nicht finden konnte. Wenn ihr den deutschen Begriff kennt, freue ich mich, wenn ihr uns eine kurze Nachricht schreibt. Es handelt sich um die Maschen "Foundation Sc" und "stacked standing dc". Ich habe beiden Maschen deutsche Namen verpasst und unten im Glossar verzeichnet. 

Für beide Maschen findet ihr Anleitungen. Für die Anfangsreihen-feste-Masche gibt es die Anleitung bisher nur auf Englisch. Wenn ihr großen, großen Bedarf anmeldet, werde ich die Anleitung in der Zukunft auch in Deutsche übersetzen.

Wenn ihr damit Probleme habt, meldet euch gerne - wir können euch sicher helfen. Am einfachsten ist es, wenn ihr uns auf Facebook schreibt.

Die Übersetzung ist leider nicht testgehäkelt. Ich habe mir größte Mühe gegeben, aber natürlich kann sich immer mal ein kleiner Fehler einschleichen. Solltet ihr einen entdecken oder glauben, einen entdeckt zu haben, schreibt mir doch bitte ganz fix! Danke!

Herzliche Grüße

Anne

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Der letzte Schmetterling - Schal

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Maße

165cm x 20cm

Materialien

-      Wolltraum Glitter Party 150g (Farbe: "The Last Unicorn")

-      3,5 mm Häkelnadel

-      Nähnadel

-      Schere

Abkürzungen

AfM: Anfangsreihen-Feste-Masche („Foundation Row“ – eine Bilderanleitung findest du hier)

Lm: Luftmasche

fM: Feste Masche

Stb: Stäbchen

DStb: Doppelstäbchen

gStb: Gestabeltes Stb (fM in die Zielmasche, führe die Nadel unten den äußersten zwei linken Fäden der fM hindurch, Faden aufnehmen und eine zweite fM häkeln. S. Fotoanleitung)

Anleitung

Anfangsreihe: 359AfM, 1Lm, wenden.  Um den Schal kürzer oder länger zu machen, brauchst du nur 14 AfM abziehen oder hinzufügen.

Reihe 1: gStb in die erste Masche, *Stb in die nächsten 7 Masche, 7Lm, überspringe 7 Maschen* wiederhole zwischen den ** bis zum Ende der Reihe, Stb in die letzte 8 Maschen, 1Lm, wenden.

Reihe 2: Wiederhole Reihe 1.

Reihe 3: gStb in die erste Masche, Stb in die nächsten 6 (Stb-)Maschen, *2Stb in die nächste Masche, 2Lm, DStb in die 4. übersprungene Masche der Anfangsreihe und umschließe damit die Lm-Kette aus Reihe 2, 2Lm, 2Stb in die nächste (Stb-)Masche, Stb in die nächsten 5 (Stb-)Maschen*,  wiederhole zwischen den ** bis zum Ende der Reihe, Stb in die letzten 2 Maschen, 1Lm, wenden.

Reihe 4: fM in die erste Masche, fM in die nächsten 8 Maschen, *2fM in den 2Lm Zwischenraum, fM in das DStb, 2fM in den 2Lm Zwischenraum, fM in die nächsten 9 Maschen, wiederhole zwischen den ** bis zum Ende der Reihe, 1Lm, wenden.

Reihe 5: gStb in die erste Masche, Stb in die nächsten 14 Masche, *7Lm, überspringe 7 Masche, Stb in die nächsten 7 Maschen, wiederhole zwischen den ** bis zum Ende der Reihe, Stb in die letzten 8 (Stb)-Maschen, 1Lm, wenden.

Reihe 6: Wiederhole Reihe 5.

Reihe 7: gStb in die erste Masche, Stb in die nächsten 13 Maschen, *2Stb in die nächste (Stb-)Masche, 2Lm, DStb in die 4. übersprungene Masche der 4.Reihe und umschließe damit die Lm-Ketten, 2Lm, 2Stb in die nächste Masche, Stb in die nächsten 5 (Stb-)Maschen*, wiederhole zwischen den ** bis zum Ende der Reihe, Stb in die letzten 9 (Stb-)Masche, 1Lm, wenden.

Reihe 8: fM in die erste Masche, fM in die nächsten 15 Masche, *2fm in den 2Lm Zwischenraum, fm in das DStb, 2fm in den 2Lm Zwischenraum, fm in die nächsten 9 Maschen, wiederhole zwischen den ** bis zum Ende der Reihe, fM in die letzten 7 Maschen, 1Lm, wenden.

Wiederhole die Reihen 1-8 zweimal, dann schließe einmal die Reihen 1-4 an. Masche am Ende von Reihe 4 ab.

Vernähe die Enden und blocke den Schal. Benutze dazu unbedingt genügend Stecknadeln, so dass man die Schmetterlinge hinterher gut sehen kann und sie ihre glitzernden Flügel ausbreiten können!

Translating the Frida's Flowers CAL

Hi there!

How are you doing? My last weeks have been rather busy with lots of different things. 

For one thing, I finished another post-graduate certificate. I am now a university certified coach. As you might know, I coach academic writing and esp. phd-candidates in addition to my regular job. Now I have the official degree to do it :P I am thinking about becoming semi-self-employed that this year. There are a lot of things to consider and lots of paperwork, so it might take some time before it actually happens. Cross your fingers and wish me luck! :)

The other thing which kept me busy was my translation work for Stylecraft. As Michelle mentioned earlier last week, I am translating the new CAL, the Frida's Flowers Blanket pattern, to German. I am really happy to be able to work on this exciting project and quite honestly I can't wait to see all the blankets made from it! I will crochet the blanket too and guess what? It is the first CAL I am ever taking part in!

Translating sounds much easier than it sounds. The "text" parts are quicker to translate than the actual pattern. When I crochet, I use English patterns 99% of the time because the crochet language is so much easier. Oh and I learnt to crochet properly in English, so all my knowledge regarding crochet is stored in the English part of my brain. ;-) The German crochet language doesn't have nice and short abbreviations like 2sctog, so that makes the pattern a lot longer. With some rows, the German version is twice as long as the English original. 

I am finished with the first two patterns and the get ready document and I will spend my Sunday translating the introductions to all the patterns. Phew! There are six more patterns to follow but I hope I can be a bit quicker with these now that I got the hang of it. Translating the first two took over five hours.

Oh and next to the translation stuff, I am also working on my cosy blanket. It is growing, in fact I am about 60 % done. I really need to hurry up. It has to be finished by the 20.5. but as the CAL starts on the 5.4. I want to be done with this blanket by then, so that I can work on the Frida's Flowers Blanket!

What is keeping you busy at the moment?

Take care

Anne

GIVEAWAY! Frida's Flowers CAL

UPDATE 11/3/16 - THE WINNER IS MARIEKE DUIJST! Congratulations to Marieke :D

We can finally tell you about our secret and exciting project! 

Anne and I have been working with our favourite yarn brand, Stylecraft Yarns, on the US and German translations of the brand new Frida's Flowers CAL (designed by Jane Crowfoot)!!! The CAL starts on 5 April 2016, and will be released in 8 fortnightly instalments.

(c) Stylecraft Yarns

The Official English Facebook group is here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1555519964767343/ 

Anne has also set up the Official German Facebook group for the CAL at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1039765272753087/  

(c) Jane Crowfoot

And, to thank us for our assistance, Stylecraft is sponsoring a giveaway here on Crochet Between Worlds: one complete Stylecraft Classique Cotton yarn kit to make the Frida's Flowers blanket plus postage to anywhere in the world!!!!!!!!!!

(ok, I'll try and tone down the exclamation marks from now on :P) 

(c) Jane Crowfoot

The yarn kits go on sale across the world next Friday, 11 March 2016 - which is when we will announcing the winner of our giveaway (so you know whether you need to buy a kit or not!).

Enter below! Please share the link to this post with your friends and yarn groups :)

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(c) Stylecraft Yarns

Free Pattern: Boho Chic Blanket (Translation)

Hi ladies and gentlemen!

Once again we have the pleasure if translating a wonderful pattern from Lucie (Vivre au Crochet) from French to English. The Boho Chic Blanket is a true beauty and we are very happy that Lucie trusted us with translating this beauty!

So without further ado, here comes the pattern!

Free Pattern: Boho Chic Blanket

You will need
- Scrap yarn in various colors (Aran)
- 5 balls of yarn (100g each) in an off white color as the main color (Aran)
- 2 balls of yarn (100g each) of another secondary color for the border (Aran)
- 5 mm crochet hook

Important: You will not turn your work after Row 1. You will need to start at the same side of the work all the time.

Blanket Body

Use the border color to crochet a chain. The chain should measure about 150 cm, the stitch count is not important as long as it is a multiple of three, plus two. 

Row 1: 1hdc into the third ch from the hook, and then into each ch. (Note: The turning 2ch at the beginning of this row does not count as a stitch!)

Note from Anne: You can also start with a hdc foundation row in the desired length in a multiple of 3. A tutorial for the foundation row can be found here.

Row 2: Using main color and start with the V-stitch. Chain 3, sk 2 st, *(1dc, 1ch, 1dc) into the next st, sk 2st* til the end of the row, (1ch, 1 dc) in the last st. Finish off. Do not turn. 

Row 3: Change color to any desired color (expect the main color). You're going to work into every second v stitch from the row below. Ch3, *3hdctog, ch1, 3hdctog into the next v-stitch from the row below, sk 1 v-stitch from the row below, 2ch* repeat till the end of the row, finish with 1hdc into the last ch1 from the row below. Finish off. 

Row 4: Change color to any desired color (expect main color). You're going to work into the skipped v-stitches from two rows below and into every v-stitch from the row below. Ch3, *1hdc, ch1, 1hdc into the v-stitch from the row below, 1dc, ch1, 1dc into the v-stitch from two rows below* repeat till the end of the row, 1hdc into the last ch1 from the row below. Finish off.

Repeat row 2-4 till you reached the desired length. Every fourth row should be crocheted in the main color. 

Border
Rd 1: 1hdc into every stitch around, with 2hdc into the side of a hdc, 3hdc into the side of a dc, and three hdc into every corner.
Rd 2-5:  1sc into every stitch around, with three sc into every corner.
Rd 6: Crab Stitch all around.

Freiburg Adventures

Hi all!

We spent the last couple of days in Freiburg, down in the South of Germany. The boyfriend had an event at the uni down there and thus we decided to combine it with a bit of a holiday.

Freiburg is close to the French border, the Alsace is right around the corner. Thus the town has a rather French feel to it and the wine is fantastic. Our wine taste is a bit exotic for most people as we love Gewürztraminer and Muscat but down there we had a huge selection - even in the supermarket. Wow! So cool! As you might imagine, we had a lot of wine. Oops.

The old town is beautiful and so is the farmer's market at the Münster, the place in front of the cathedral. So many fresh veggie and fruit stalls, fresh bread and so on. Oh my, I could shop there every day. The farmer's market here in Dortmund is nice but nothing compared to the one I saw in Freiburg... 

Of course I took a huge bag of crochet with me. Wouldn't go anywhere without it, would you? I was working on two baby blankets and also on the new beanie pattern. The bonfire beanie pattern is 95 % finished but I decided to try out all the sizes again. And as it happens I decided to make small changes in the pattern as well. I hope to get it finished this week, so that Michelle can read it through. 

In the near future I intend to translate the pattern into German, actually I would like to do that with all of Michelle and my patterns. So far I haven't found the time though. Translating takes a lot of time, something I did not expect when I translated my first pattern (Alia's Sunday Shawl). German crochet is a lot more complicated as English if you ask me. For example, there seems to be no short wording for s2tog or hdc2tog. I wish there was! Well that and the fact that I learnt to crochet in English. So there might be a lot of words/terms I don't know yet. Funnily I find it easier to translate French patterns into English... My French teacher would have a good laugh if she heard this. Let's put it like this: I wasn't the best French student. Laughs. 

Perhaps the translation process will get faster with more experience. Do you have any experience with translating patterns?

Take care

Anne

PATTERN: Happy Granny Blanket (Translated from Vivre Au Crochet)

Good Morning!

A few days ago Lucie from Vivre au Crochet asked if we could translate her blanket pattern into English and we were happy to agree as the blanket is a real beauty. It is a blanket made out of granny clusters and because of its unique layout, it looks rather sophisticated. All pics in this post belong to Lucie! If you finish a blanket with this pattern, Lucie and we would love to see it! Post it our Facebook pages (Crochet Between Worlds and Vivre au Crochet) if you like. :-)
 

Pattern: Happy Granny Blanket

For this blanket, you need 10 different colours of the same yarn. Lucie used Red Heart Soft Classic in:

red
pink
bright pink
yellow
turquoise
cyan
forest green
soft green
electric blue
ivory

and a 6mm hook.  You can follow Lucie’s colour scheme by using the following chart. 

I reckon it would also look great with one of the Stylecraft Colour Packs, don’t you think? The blanket made with Stylecraft Special DK would be smaller though, as the Red Heart Soft Classic is an Aran yarn.

For this pattern, you need to know how to make Granny Squares. There are several good tutorials on the net and on YouTube. I recommend this tutorial from BunnyMummy and this one from LittleTinBird.

For sewing the grannies together, I recommend either of the following tutorials:

Crochet Grannies together from BunnyMummy,
Crochet Grannies together as you go from Michelle. 

Your blanket should lay flat, thus I recommend this tutorial from BunnyMummy on how to crochet a flat row into sewn together granny squares.

Pattern


Step 1

Make 9 granny squares with 4 rows each. Add an extra row in ivory to each to theses squares. You now have 9 squares with 5 rows each.

Step 2

Sew the 9 squares together (3x3) to make a large square. These nine squares give the equivalent of a big square of 15 rows.

Step 3
 
Add 10 rows of granny stitches/granny rows to the big square in different colours (10 granny rows) - it is important to make exactly 10 rows. Start and end with the same colour. You now have the equivalent of a 25 row granny square. 

Step 4
 
Make 24 more squares of 5 rows each and sew them to the sides. You now have the equivalent of a 35 row granny square.

Step 5
 
Add 10 more granny rows to the big square (10 rows). It is important to crochet exactly 10 rows. You now have the equivalent of a 45 rows granny square.

Step 6
 
Make 64 tiny squares of 3 rows: 1 row of one colour and 2 rows of a contrasting colour. Do not use the colour of the first row made in step 9. Sew the tiny squares to the sides of the big square. You now have the equivalent of a 51 row granny square. 

Step 7
 
Add 2 rows of granny rows in two different colours. You now have the equivalent of a 53 row granny square.

Step 8
 
You will now crochet the border. Work into the gaps between the granny clusters. 1sc and 4ch into each gap. The ch-stitches will look like a little bow. 

Step 9
 
Add a row of sc in a contrasting colour.

Thank you so much Lucie for the opportunity to translate your beautiful pattern! If you do make this blanket, make sure you post pictures on Lucie's and our Facebook pages :) 

Some crochet, some paper craft and some translation

Hello you all!

First: Welcome to our new followers on Bloglovin and Google+! Good to see you here!

I wish I could tell you about a finished project but I can't. However, I can tell you about lots of WIPs... One can never have too many WIPs, can't one? Earlier this week I hoped to finish one of the WIPs but well, here we are: Friday and my cowl is still a WIP. I have been incredible tired and thus couldn't put in as much crochet time as I hoped for. Sighs.

My current crochet WIP is this neck warmer cowl from Drops Design:

Pattern can be found here/ Picture belongs to Drops Designs

As you can see, I am about 78 % done. I use Drops Cotton Merino instead of the Alpaca yarn. Why? I adore the cotton merino yarn. It certainly is my favorite yarn. :-) Do you have a favorite yarn too?

I am also working on Christmas presents. I can't show you pictures yet as some of the recipients might read this post. I can tell you however that it involves something to eat and glass jars. Any ideas what it might be?

Some days ago a whole bunch of old city maps were to be tossed out at my work. After all there are very few people who still use paper maps and those maps weren't exactly young either. So I saved them from tossing and took them home. Boy, they will keep me busy for some time. One map of Paderborn and Wuppertal each I used up to make paper lucky stars. In order to to this, I cut the maps into 20cm long stripes. I like how they look - now I only need to figure out what to do with them. Any ideas from you by any chance? I am happy about any kind of advice.

My other WIP is crochet related again. Do you know this wonderful Sunday Shawl from Alia/Little Bee yet? 

Picture belongs to The Little Bee

It is a fantastic pattern and I can't wait to make a shawl for myself! At the moment however I am translating the pattern into German for Alia. Apparently a lot of people ask for a German version and I am very happy to help her out. Fortunatly Andrea from  Kokopelli Design will proofread the German version. I am very happy that Alia trusts me with her wonderful pattern! Once finished you will be able to purchase the German version in her shop. :-)

What are you up to these days? I hope you have lots of yarn to keep you happy!

Take care

Anne