Bobble Guides
Plain-English tutorials on making crochet charts from photos, picking yarn colours, working corner-to-corner blankets, and reading the result without losing your place.
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How to turn a photo into a crochet pattern
The end-to-end guide: picking the right photo, reducing the colours, choosing C2C or single crochet, and following the result.
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What is a C2C graphghan and how do you make one?
A plain-English intro to corner-to-corner blankets — what they are, why they’re fast, and how the stitch works.
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How to choose yarn colours from a photo
How many colours to use, how to match a real yarn brand, and why contrast matters more than accuracy.
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How to read a crochet chart
Where to start, which way the rows run, and how to keep your place between sittings.
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Free crochet chart maker: turn photos into graphghan patterns online
What a chart maker actually does, what to look for in a free one, and how to get a usable pattern out of your photo in under five minutes.
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Stylecraft Special DK colour matching for graphghans
Practical matches between common photo colours and Stylecraft Special DK shades — the UK’s default graphghan yarn.
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Crochet blanket size guide: dimensions, gauge and what fits where
Standard sizes for every type of crochet blanket and the stitch counts that get you there in DK or worsted.
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How many balls of yarn for a graphghan?
A repeatable method for estimating yarn quantities by stitch type, yarn weight and colour distribution.
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Pixel crochet vs C2C vs tapestry: which graphghan method?
Side-by-side comparison of the three main techniques and what each one is actually good for.
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Crochet a portrait from a photo: skin tones, faces and other hard things
How to crochet a recognisable portrait — picking the right reference, simplifying faces and avoiding the common pitfalls.