Stitch Help, Please :)

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I have a pattern I’m writing out to get tested very soon. However, I have a few stitches that are a bit more advanced and hard to explain. To my knowledge they don’t have a ‘name’, so I’ve just put in a placeholder name to explain them like ‘flower border st’, ‘puff-split’, etc. So this topic kind of has two questions.

  1. How do you guys include abbreviations and explanations for a stitch that isn’t included in the Ribblr auto-abbreviations sections? {If there’s a way to include custom or more abbreviations, let me know as well because I’m a newbie when it comes to Ribblr and don’t know all the features.}

  2. So, the stitch ‘split-puff’, is a puff stitch where the crocheter yarns over and pulls through a loop 8 times, yarns over and pulls through half of the loops on hook, slip stitches at the top of that then pulls through the rest and slip stitches again. {Is there an actual name for this?} How is the best way to explain this in a pattern?

Thanks to anyone that takes the time to help me out~

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I usually make a note at the top and or you can add it in as a note I have attached a photo of what the note looks like in the pattern maker.

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I include stitches like that in the notes section of the pattern, just before the instructions. I write the abbreviation and how to make the stitch (sometimes attaching photos depending on how complicated it is).
For example:
Invisible decrease (inv dec) = insert hook though the front loops of the next two stitches, yarn over and draw up a loop, yarn over and pull though both loops on the hook.

I’m not aware of any way to modify the auto-abbreviations list, I think it is based off keywords that appear in the pattern.
I’ve never come across a puff stitch like that before, so I haven’t heard of any other names for it. I would probably attach a few step by step photos to help explain it, as well as a written description.

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