Following a tileable pattern

What is a tileable pattern?

In mosaic crochet it is very common to repeat a small pattern many times in horizontal and/or vertical direction to create a large blanket. A designer can create such a tileable pattern in CromoDesigner by specifying which zone of the pattern is designed to be repeated. Indeed, a few stitches at each side of the tile can be added to have a nicely finished full design. The designer may have specified a default number of horizontal and vertical repeats, but you are free to choose your own overall pattern size. Before you start crocheting, go to the CromoViewer properties dialog and specify how many times you want the pattern to be repeated horizontally and vertically.

Following the pattern

When you step through the pattern and reach the end of the repeated tile, the pointer will jump back to the beginning of the tile, this both in horizontal and vertical direction. The row- and stitch-counters below the chart always show the total number of stitches, which will be a multiple of the tile shown on the screen. At the start of a row, the app mentions "horizontal repeat upcoming". Within the repeated zone, it mentions the index of the tile you are currently working on, and when you are past the last repeated tile, it mentions "horizontal repeats" done. The same applies for the vertical direction.

Try it out!

At first this jumping back at the end of each tile might seem confusing, but once you got the picture it's really easy to follow the pattern without the need to keep counting tiles. You can preview this navigation behavior by running through the pattern once at high speed. Look at the text while doing so, it clearly indicates where you currently are in the full pattern.

After this 'test run' just go back to the start of the pattern by keeping the down button pressed until you reach the very first stitch again, and you're ready to start 'for real' this time.