I-phones or tablets are not just for taking selfies. These gadgets can help crocheters to enhance patterns for better reading. Most of the written or graphed patterns in the market are very hard to read because the letters, characters or symbols are very tiny. With written instructions, the words and sentences run together in one continues string and it is very easy to get lost while reading them because most of the sentences are so similar that it is easy for your eyes to wander off away from where you are working when you shift your focus away from the instructions to look at your work.
With graphed or charted instructions, the characters or symbols or open or closed spaces in filet crochet are too small, that if you have to count the spaces or stitches as you follow a pattern, it is also very easy to get lost or very hard to do accurate counting.
At this age of technology, no one should struggle with these kinds of problems while crocheting or knitting. Use your i-phone or tablet with touch screen functionality to take a photo of the pattern you are working on. If your i-phone or tablet has a photo editing tools, use these tools to enlarge or focus on the part you are working on so that you can see clearly where you are in the pattern. Using the touch screen of your iphone or tablet you can scroll from left to right or up and down the pattern page.
Another way is to make a hard copy of the enlarged pattern then you can use different colored highlighter to mark where you are on the pattern page.
