My SO is trying to crochet a baby blanket from a set of instructions and she doesn’t understand the abbreviations they’re using. The abbreviation is supposed to be here but it’s not. She specifically needs to know what “V” means.
Here’s the context:
What does “V” mean?
A “V-stitch” is a specific kind of stitch.
Here’s how:
Hmmmm, my guess is that this is a case of sloppy proofreading, and that the V stitch was supposed to be defined somewhere. Read, or have her read, both the top and bottom of the instructions, sometimes a special stitch is described in one of those two places.
Just from the clip provided, I don’t think this pattern is phrased as clearly as it could be.
This pattern looks very similar; I find the description to be more “standard.”
http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/70119A.html
Moving this over to Cafe Society, where the yarnophiles generally converse. From IMHO.
Thanks so much Hello Again - she’s done a lot of crocheting but didn’t know about a “V-stitch.”
The pattern not making sense might be my fault: I just picked one line from it that had “V” in it. It might make more sense in context of the other lines.
I just noticed that there was old fashioned/non standard terminology - such as “miss” now replaced by the much more standard “skip” or “sk”.
But it sounds like your wife understood it perfectly fine aside from the V-stitch thing so its all good. Does she use Ravelry? (www.ravelry.com - social networking, patterns, yarn and project database, and more for knitters & crocheters).
Most patterns (nowadays?) that use stitches that are made up of more basic stitches either tell you what a V-stitch is, or write it out in the pattern like that “For Dummies” link did–dc, ch 1, dc.