Sometimes human being’ desires for material stuff can work as a powerful drive to make them go crazy but at the same time smart

Like today, I love this harlequin Fair Isle pattern so much, but unfortunately the pattern released by Borroco was not free for downloading. I was so disappointed, but didn’t immediately give up. I can’t just dismiss the idea that easily. It was just being so me……

Feeling frustrated enough, I decided to HACK the pattern, and make it myself. I spent 10 minutes staring at the enlarged photos, and felt that there was nothing really difficult to make a bag like that. The key is to work out the Fair Isle chart. Once I get the chart, the rest of work would be fairly easy…..plain stocking stitch, crochet on the top of both edges of the bag, rectangle size of the bag, and attaching two properly selected handles…..no drama at all.

I looked and looked, and looked and looked, and looked at least 15 minutes. Suddenly I got the idea. Why don’t I use Excel to make a chart myself? Then I opened the spreedsheet in my computer, adjusted the width and height for each cell to make them all looking like a square, then I filled in the cells with different shades of colours……brown, orange, beige and blue. The more I did, the more interesting the picture turned to.

20 minutes later, I got all 65 stitches x 81 rows done. Counted as written in the instruction, with the yarn indicated, there should be 20s x 24 rows = 10 square centremeters with stocking stitch, so the actual size of bag should be 64 stitches x 81 rows= 37.5cm (width) x 33.75 cm (height). It is a little bit different from the original one, but I like what it had been hacked

Never thought I could do this as I always believe I can only follow a pattern but nothing else. It was so much fun to work like this and it was so cool to be a pattern hacker The only thing I need to do, if one day I could have a chance to do, is to buy four different colours of yarn and start to knit by following my OWN knitting chart.