How To Find Crochet Pattern?

Can someone help me find a crochet pattern?

• I am looking for a specific pattern. I remember an afghan I made in the late 1990's (around 1997-1999). I found the patter in a back page ad of Crafts and Things magazine. The afghan was a double strand crochet and it worked up really fast. If I remember correctly it was an ad for Lion Brand yarn. (I've already searched their site). I may be wrong about the yarn company...but it was an advertisement for yarn, and included a free pattern. I loved the afghan, and ended up donating it to charity for auction...that is why I don't have it anymore...I was going to make myself another one....but I lost my back issues of Craft and Things. I know the stitch was something like YO and skip next stitch pull up a loop and draw through two, leave some on hook and go back and pick up the skipped stitch...YO and pull through two, then pull through all. It made an interesting puffy stitch that used two stitches...I am sure that I am missing something....and I can't remember exactly what the stitch was called. I am thinking toggle stitch..but I don't know. If anyone has back issues of that magazine or can figure out a similar stitch by my description let me know thanks in advance. I am an experienced crocheter, and this is a specific pattern that I am looking for...but am willing to explore a substitution...I've been trying to work it out for the past few years..and now I decided to just ask. Maybe I can find a copy of the old pattern.

• Answer:

  If it was a free pattern, most likely it was a fairly common stitch. You may find it again in a stitchionary. It sounds a bit like a cross stitch (skipping a stitch and then going back for it) and a bit like a bobble (being puffy and including a decrease). Lionbrand does have an online stitchionary: http://cache.lionbrand.com/cgi-bin/faq-search.cgi?store=/stores/eyarn&stitchfinder=1 And there are some others: http://crochet.about.com/od/crochetstitches/u/Crochet_Stitch_Instructions.htm http://www.barbscrochet.com/id66.html http://www.learntocrochetcalgary.ca/articles/CYCA-0-Crochet.htm Your public library probably has some books on assorted crochet stitches and craft stores nearly always have collections like "100 crochet stitches" that you can thumb through and see if you can spot it.