How To Make A Crochet Magic Ring There is definitely a benefit to using a magic ring, or magic circle, over the traditional beginning chain that you slip stitch into a ring. What is it? There will be no space in the center of your project. It will completely “seal” and leave no hole. Here are the steps to making the magic ring. It may take some practice, so don’t give up! Step 1: Begin by making a backwards “J” with the end of your yarn. Step 2: Cross end of yarn behind your yarn coming from the skein. Step 3: At this point you will need to pinch/hold the yarn together where they cross. Step 4: Let yarn from skein fall behind loop. Step 5: Pull loop all the way through, and up to top of ring. Step 6: Using your middle finger (or any finger that is comfortable) continue to hold the loop you just made, to the top of the ring. Step 7: Chain 1 for sc & hdc patterns. Step 8: Crochet as many stitches in the ring as your pattern calls for. Step 9: Pull yarn end to seal circle. Happy Crocheting!
size charts Search Bev's Country Cottage Sizes for making various items Charts compiled by Bev Qualheim and friends! Hat sizes Baby measurements Foot Sizes/Lengths Sweater-measurements ages 2-14 Blanket sizes Head/hat Size Chart - knitted or crocheted hats should be made about 1- 1 1/2" smaller around than the head circumference, as the hats should stretch and sizes are not an exact science! April 2010 ~ Help with adding metric equivalents thanks to: Cynde Sadler Dec 2011 ~ Children's Sweater measurements added Metric equivalent converter IMPORTANT! On newborn hats I plan to fold up about 1" for a brim, on adult hats I usually figure 2" - 3" or so for a brim, but this varies according to personal preference. Preemies (I have been told by many NICU nurses that Bev's Baby Ribs hat ideal hat to knit for preemies and newborns because it has so much stretch and will fit several sizes of babies.) Newborns Head Circumference 13" - 14 " 33-36cm; hat circ = 11.5" - 13" Hat height = 5.5 to 6" 13-15 cm Foot Sizes
How to Ball Your Yarn When I wanted to learn how to ball my yarn some years back I had a really hard time finding a resource online showing me how to do it. I had asked my grandmother, my sensi of crochet and she didn’t have a clue. In the end, I wound up getting a book from the library. For real… It’s not a huge deal and some don’t even like working with balled yarn, but I sure do. I don’t always ball my yarn. Luckily, balling yarn is quick and easy. Take your yarn and wrap it around your four fingers as shown above. Remove from your fingers and fold in half. Wrap your yarn around the middle 5 or 6 times. As you turn and continue to wind around, the yarn will begin to form the shape of a ball. Hope this proves helpful. See where I link up. You may also want to check out:
Tunisian Crochet How-To… Basic Tunisian Crochet Stitch Welcome friends! This is my first How-To blog post and I am excited to share with you. I am going to show you how to Tunisian Crochet. Some of you may have heard of it and others maybe not. Either way, you will learn how to do it today! Tunisian Crochet is a fabulous way of mixing crocheting and knitting. To start off, you need a Tunisian Crochet hook. As you can see, it’s a long crochet hook… … with a stopper at the end like a knitting needle. If you can’t get your hands on one of these, you can use one of your regular crochet hooks. As far as yarn, feel free to use whatever you have on hand that will work with your hook. Stitches Ch– Chain Yo– Yarn over Sts- Stitches Sk– Skip Sl St– Slip Stitch Did you notice there’s no single, double, treble (etc.) crochets? A big thing you need to know and keep in mind as you do this is that you will go back and forth on your work and never turn. The Forward Pass you will be working right to left and The Return Pass you will work left to right. Chain 15
Carina's craftblog: No foundation chain crochet tutorial No foundation chain crochet tutorial Did you know that you can make crochet rows without the foundation chain? It was news to me until very recently. Anyway, here's the tutorial. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Now we are starting to see a pattern, right? Here's what a (small) no foundation chain row looks like. And here are example swatches of no foundation chain and foundation chain. Labels: crochet, tutorial scribbled by Carina 5/23/2008 07:00:00 PM Please note: as of December 2009 this blog has moved to carinascraftblog.wardi.dk, and commenting has been disabled on this version of the blog. Clicking on the links in this dropdown menu will take you to the page of the chosen month on the new version of this blog.
a creative being - all things crochet by winkieflash! Crocodile Stitch ...so I came across a lovely pattern on www.ravelry.com that included using, what they called, the Crocodile Stitch. Firstly, I have no problem paying for a pattern that someone has created and posted on the internet. I have no problem paying for an item that I don't want to make myself, from the internet. BUT, I don't think there is any reason to have to pay to learn a stitch. So I really loved this "Crocodile Stitch", but couldn't find it anywhere in an This video, however, only shows how to create the first row, and not the second row and so forth. So to be a good citizen, I will share my method with you, so that you can have a lovely scarf for yourself and your loved ones. Crocodile Stitch Scarf Medium: Crochet Tools: You can use whatever yarn/hook combination you want. l Hobby Lobby. Gauge: Whatever you want! Abbreviations: ch - chain, DC - double crochet Create slip knot. * For the scarf I made above, I chained 18. DC in 3rd chain from hook. Ch 1. 5 DC in first DC Ch 1. 5 DC in second DC.
Still Trying to Customize Hat Sizes Yes, I'm still trying to customize hat sizes. Over the last few months, I've gotten numerous comments and questions about hats sizes. Considering we all crochet with different tensions/ gauges, it's impossible to give definite numbers of stitches. The charts are great but they do not tell us when to stop increasing. I've decided to get all of Ireland's hats that I've made for her since birth to use for my experiment. This is a general chart, but still pretty helpful...Better than nothing. Age Diameter of circle Newborn 4 inches 3-6 months 5.5 inches 9-12 months 6-6.5 inches 24 months 6.5-6.75 inches Toddler and small child 7 inches Adult woman 7.25-7.5 inches For instance if you are making a hat for a 12 month old... increase until you have a circle that measures 6-6.5 inches across, then continue to crochet each round evenly with no increases. The hat in the photo above will be for a child about a year old. The finished length will also vary according to age Age Finished Length Newborn 5 inches
How To Make The Invisible Join - The Lavender Chair The Invisible join technique changed my life and will most definitely change yours! I was absolutely amazed with the results when I learned how. This technique is used when working with projects in the round. The invisible join creates a seamless and more professional finish to your crochet projects. Normally, when working in the round, you’d finish off with a slip stitch. Here’s how! At the last round, instead of joining with a slip stitch cut the yarn leaving yourself a decent tail. Now insert your hook into the front loop of the last stitch you made and into the whole first stitch of the round. Next you are going to yarn over with your tail yarn and pull through all the loops on your hook. Then lastly, you are going to weave in your ends like you would normally. VOILA! Now doesn’t that look so much better then this: If you’d prefer to watch a video tutorial on the invisible join click here. Related Crochet Tutorial: How To Create The Invisible Join May 9, 2015 In "Crochet Tutorials"
Crochet Sphere Pattern Calculator This is a crochet sphere pattern generator. It's easy to crochet a rough approximation of a sphere, but for mathematically inclined people this is the only method that gives real satisfaction. I'm far from being an experienced crocheter but I've been able to make some quite satisfactory spheres this way (picture on the right). If you have comments or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact me. To get a customized pattern, simply enter the circumference of the sphere and press the button. NEW: Try the Crochet Lathe: Simply draw the outline and the program will generate the pattern. The Thumb Trick: Sometimes called an afterthought thumb, I first read about it in Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac. I really like this method because it's seamless; sometimes when patterns have you place stitches on a holder and then cast on the top stitches you can get an odd seam right in the crease where your thumb meets the hand, and that can be uncomfortable. The only trouble that some people may have with this method is that you cannot immediately try on your mitten in progress, as you can with mittens where the stitches are put on holders. But if you want to you can just knit a few more rows and then pick up the stitches instead of waiting until the mitten is done, threading the waste yarn through them so you can try on your mittens as you knit. The trick: Knit to where you want to place the thumb hole, and take a length of contrasting yarn, and knit the thumbhole stitches with it instead of your working yarn: (see the working yarn, still on the right-hand side of the work?) Ta da!