Crochet Stitch Pattern - Medium Stipple

Trying to help with a crochet pattern requested on Facebook.  Not sure if this is the correct answer to the pattern requested, but nevertheless it would make a nice textured puff-stitch-like pattern that wouldn't gobble up as much yarn as a puff stitch for a blanket or throw. I made up the name, Medium Stipple.

My swatch, made with Red Heart Super Saver yarn, Susan Bates 10 1/2 or K metal crochet hook, is below. (The swatch ended with a Row 3; see below for how to end a blanket.)

Medium Stipple (Front)

Medium Stipple (Back)

Using US terminology:

Foundation Chain:  Chain an odd number + 1.

Row 1: 1 sc in second ch from hook, 1 sc in each chain to the end of the row.  There will be an odd number of sc.

Row 2: Ch 1, turn (the beginning ch-1 does not count as a stitch). Working in the front loop only (FLO), 1 sc in each stitch.

Row 3: Ch 1, turn, *(1 sc in FLO of next st, 1 dc in FLO of the st BELOW the next stitch, skip 1 st)*, repeat from * to * across the row, 1 sc in the FLO of the last st.

Repeat Row 2 and Row 3 for desired length, then do one more Row 2, then one row of regular sc (not FLO) to end a blanket.

Recommendation: for a looser fabric use a finer yarn and larger crochet hook.

Luggage Lock TSA20 Instruction Manual (Manufactured by Lewis N. Clark, L.C. Industries, Chicago, IL)

While traveling, I had opened the TSA20 lock and unknowingly put it into an unknown mode... I could not pull the shackle up out of the lock and it was stuck in the down mode, but not with the open end of the shackle plugged into the shackle socket.  If I turned it the shackle, it turned the numbers and nothing I did with the numbers allowed me to release the shackle.  I thought it might be in the mode to reset the lock combination. But I didn't have the instructions. I was now unable to use the lock and the instructions were home, not with me. I've posted them here for myself and anyone else who might find them useful.

To solve my immediate problem, I found youtube instructions for how to open a lock if the combination was forgotten, but not how to handle setting the lock combination or how to get out of this mode.  I managed to use the youtube instructions for releasing the lock (I inserted manicure scissors into the key hole and turned 90 degrees and that allowed the keyhole portion to be pulled out of the lock and that seemed to release the whole thing.  Indicates just how easy it is to unlock this lock by anyone with a pair of pointy tweezers or manicure scissors, or a key you can buy on Amazon.).  Anyway, here are the instructions that came with the lock.  Not sure how I got it in the funky mode, but I think I pushed the lock shackle in while the combination was set, but I pushed it in without aligning it to the socket for the shackle--it was slightly off.  Nervous this might happen again.

E-Z Stitcher Instruction Manual

Found a cool gadget from 1953.

AND the manual is included!

It uses standard sewing machine needles.  Fantastic!