Some time back, I wrote a post about mosaic crochet. The informatio I had available to me came mostly from Lily Chin's book Mosaic Magic: Afghans Made Easy. Lily Chin's book had a fairly simple technique to make a rick textured pattern by attaching long stitches to lower rows. They could simply drop down for a more suare pattern or angle to the sides for another look.
After doing a little more research, I found another type of mosaic crochet. It probably takes more concentration and a lot of counting. You work with two colors of yarn at once. When the pattern calls for one of the colors, that is the one on the hook. You hold the unused yarn along the upper edge of the row below and work over it so it does not show.
When the pattern calls for the color to change, you switch the yarn you are hooking and lay the previous color on the row below, trading off as the pattern requires. The patterns are beautiful and can be quite intricate.
To look at this type of crochet, look for patterns more like the ones Annie's Attic puts out. There is a distinct difference. To each her own.
Happy crafting,
Kathi
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