How to read a crochet spiral grid?

How to make a crochet spiral?

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You master the crochet spiral and you now want to take the next step by creating your own crochet spiral pattern. Or did you see a crooked spiral grid but you are lost to the lack of explanations? No worries, thanks to this data sheet, reading a crochet spiral diagram will not be a problem anymore because you will be able to learn how to read a crochet spiral grid.

A big thank you to Dominique Moreau of the blog Mes Perlouzes who wrote this technical sheet and Karole Larcanché for the realization of this video tutorial.

To create your own spiral model, there is software to help beaders make a diagram or grid. The grid that was used for making the spiral necklace of the video below was   performed with the DB-Bead software .

On a finalized grid, you have all the technical indications to make the spiral.

- You first find the explanation for threading the beads that are indicated in the column named "List of beads". This pearl letter is read from the top of the left column to the bottom, then go back up to put the second column on the right.

- Then you also have a final view of the project , which is schematically represented and allows a fairly faithful rendering of the result of your future spiral.

- You also have what is called a "flat view ", that is to say a view if all the hooking was done flat.

- Finally, the software offers a "draft" grid that is edited to make it easier to identify threading errors. It reads from left to right, going up.

- There are also numerical indications, as the line "circumference" indicates the number of pearls per turn. In our example diagram, it takes 12 beads per turn for the spiral. It is also indicated the number of rows and the total number of pearls that will be used (of course, depending on the parameters indicated)

The grid of this technical sheet was used for the realization of the spiral hook made by Karole Larcanché in the video tutorial how to make a crochet spiral necklace below.

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