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The Ylfa Dice Tower Sewing Pattern

Now available: a sewing pattern for a collapsible dice tower! Made with chipboard, Velcro, and fabric. Create the perfect dice roller for your campaign with this pattern!

If you are on Ravelry, too, you know the story behind this blanket.

After years, I finally picked up a crochet hook. I bought a few pounds of cheap acrylic in a color I liked, bought a pattern book of crochet blankets, and went at it.

Unfortunately, I learnt to crochet in England, and the pattern used US terms. So, every single crochet was a slip stitch...

Some pounds of cheap acrylic and months of tears and frustration later, I ended up with this, a slip stitch blanket in no less than 3 shades of dark green than almost match.

To be honest, I though it was the most hideous thing I had ever seen. I was, honestly, ashamed. But I had worked hard on it and I uploaded it to Ravelry.

To my surprise, several people liked it. Some years later, the designer even asked me how I had done it. I don't know if she was impressed or aghast, and by then I had forgotten.

Eventually, I put it together. I had learned to read my crochet. I realised, I had read a US pattern as a UK crochet pattern, and made little changes here and there to accommodate.

Could Custom-sized PDF Sewing Patterns be the Way of the Future? Trying out #Lekala #sewing #indiepatterns

Do you ever look something up online and find yourself stumbling onto a site that grabs your attention and pulls it away from whatever you were searching for in the first place? It happens all the time to me―especially when I’m researching a new book. But it also happens sometimes when I’m looking for sewing-related “stuff”―patterns, technical advice, new equipment. I recently stumbled on the…