Expert: Ed Matos - 3/14/2010

Question
My B-I-L asked me to crochet a hat with the UT Longhorn on it. I thought it would be a piece of cake. I was wrong. I cannot find a pattern for the longhorn. I did find a graph used for an afghan. But have not had success with this either. I have no experience with a graph what so ever. I thought I could just count each squares as one stitch. However some of the longhorn in the graph uses just a part of the square. So when I crochet it looks like a blurry longhorn. Not clear like the UT longhorn. Any help you could provide so I can complete this project would be very appreciated. Thank you.

Answer
Sarah:

Thanks for the question.

Yes, I know this is a challenge, since we don't have half stitches.

Here is a suggestion. create a hat using sc. Why sc? because they are the smallest stitches.

Then use the graph and do Cross stitches using the sc as a square. This was you can make half stitches.

You can also do a filet style hat with open spaces and filled spaces. Fillet is used mostly for something flat, but can always be adapted to what ever is needed.

Here is a link for another alternative. I have done this to make a bag.
http://www.tapestrycrochet.com/

Hopefully I was able to help. This is a tough one, but hopefully I gave you some ideas.

Any assistance you may need, please let me know.

Happy Hooking

Ed