Purple Day

Purple day was the 26th of march. purple day is to bring awareness and support for those suffering with epilepsy. 

                                                                                                                   

My best friend's son is only 2 and he has epilepsy and so this is cause close to my heart. Because I love crochet almost as much as I love my friends son (but not quite) I decided to design a pattern of a purple rabbit and all profits from the sale of this rabbit will be donated to young epilepsy charity.

the pattern is available from my ETSY shop  

The pattern is a PDF download and permission is given to sell and rabbits you make from this pattern but not to copy or share the actual pattern.

I knew what I wanted to rabbit to look like and so designing the pattern was quite straight forward. The colour obviously had to be purple and I thought the grey added softness to the rabbit. One of the things I love to do to these types of designs is to add a pompom tail.

I used style craft wool because I wanted to keep the cost down for the person who will be making the rabbit. I wanted the pattern to be affordable and more accessible for the average crocheter.  I think my next step will be to put the pattern into US terms and all my patterns are in UK terms. I hope this will be an easy process and I am aiming to do it for all my designs.

It is a fairly easy pattern and if you happen to purchase it feel free to let me know how you got on with it and of course send me pictures of your rabbits.

Conversions

Conversions

We may speak the same language but there are a lot of difference between the US and the UK and crochet has no exceptions. I can use both the US terms and the UK but for many they get confused so I have decided to produce two conversion charts for you. One for stitches and one for hooks.

I hope it helps you.

UK	Metric	US
14	2mm	-
13	2.25mm	B/1
12	2.5mm	-
-	2.75mm	C/2
11	3mm	-
10	3.25mm	D/3
9	3.5mm	E/4
-	3.75mm	F/5
8	4mm	G/6
7	4.5mm	7
6	5mm	H/8
5	5.5mm	I/9
4	6mm	J/10
3	6.5mm	K/10.5
2	7mm	-
0	8mm	L/11
00	9mm	M/13
000	10mm	N/15

UK		US
chain	ch	chain	ch
slip stitch	ss	slip stitch	ss
double crochet	dc	single crochet	ch
half treble	htr	half double	hdc
treble	tr	double	dc
double treble	dtr	treble	tr
triple treble	ttr	double treble	dtr

There does not seem to be a lot of difference in the conversion of the stitches but when you are crocheting and you are using the wrong stitch for the pattern the end result will be very different from shape and size. It is always very important to understand the pattern that you are using. Most patterns will say which term they are using but if it does not and you cannot contact the designer you can have a read through the pattern and if it uses the term single crochet at all then you know it is the US term they are using but it doesn't then I'm afraid its just a case of trial and error. Or you cold of course contact me and I will try and help you.