Crochet in the round and the seam
There are several posibillities to crochet tube like shapes:
- you can continous crochet in the round in spirals, therefore you have to mark your first stitch to know in which row you are.
- you can crochet in the round and turn your work after every round and work the needed number of turning chains
- you can close every round with a slip stitch and continue to the next round with the needed number of chains without turning your garment.
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Whenever I’ve chosen the last posibility I ended up with a diagonal seam, as you can see on the picture on the left (the blue yarn was used for better visibility), even if I didn’t increase or decrease but worked an even number of stitches. |
What went wrong (How not to do it)
While crocheting in the round I made one big mistake: I slip stitched to the wrong position. I did this example in single crochet to illustrate my error.
I knew I had to place theslip stitch in the chain that compensates the heighs of one round to the next (turning chain). But in fact I had been slip stitching all the time to the adjactend stitch (in this case a single crochet stitch).
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The chain I would have been supposed to slip stitch to was simply so tiny and looked so meaningless, that I thought it to be the slip stitch of the previous round. |
For better visibility the last stitch of the round is pulled through with blue yarn and the "turning" chain is done in blue yarn, too:
| 1. |
Last stitch of the round |
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| 2. |
After slip stitch to the first sc (instead of slip stitch in the turning chain) |
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| 3. |
Ch 1 (counts as 1st stitch) |
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| 4. |
Sc in next stitch |
How it should be done
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If the slip stitch is made in the "turning" chain of the last row, the seam should be (more or less) straight. |
| 1. |
Last stitch of the round |
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| 2. |
Place hook in ch 1 of previous round
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Slip stitch made |
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Ch 1 counts as 1st stitch! |
| 5.. |
SC in next stitch |
Concerning single crochet, it also would be possible to crochet two chains instead of one turning chain. The slip stitch then would be located in the second one of the chains. Correspondingly the slip stitch would be placed in the third chain (top most chain) when working double crochets.
When you prefer not to slip stitch in the turnign chain - Corky’s method
Nightowl’s alternative slip stitch techniques
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If you don’t like the look of the seam at all you may want to try one of the following techniques, that were suggested by crochetville member nightowl. They deal with the way the slip stitch is made in general. After the last stitch of the round you have to remove the hook from the loop and insert it again at the place you want the join, then you pull through the loop you just droped from the hook and work the turning chain(s). You archive a different looking seam by the way you insert the hook:
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Charlene Phillips said,
October 2, 2006 @ 20:12 · Edit
Thanks for this tutorial.
Susie said,
October 27, 2006 @ 10:33 · Edit
Thanks for this tutorial. I never knew I was doing it wrong all this time. I know it has taken a lot of your time to do this and I thank you!
Angela said,
November 13, 2006 @ 4:11 · Edit
Thanks for this. Books really suck at explaining working in rounds. Your tutorial should be very helpful. I’m going to try it out tonight.
Linda said,
February 20, 2007 @ 3:23 · Edit
How is this done with dc’s
Helena said,
May 14, 2007 @ 19:13 · Edit
Geez, I’ve been looking for help on this forever! I couldn’t find anything about this problem in any book or online tutorial…thanks, I will try these methods!
Jessica said,
May 16, 2007 @ 22:55 · Edit
Wow, thanks for this, this is really going to help me a lot! :mrgreen:
Kristine said,
July 16, 2007 @ 4:33 · Edit
Thank you very much for this tutorial.
This is very helpful~
You don’t know how long I have been making this mistake
but realising the mistake didn’t help me much until I saw your blog entry! :oops:
Cheers, mate. :mrgreen:
Sharon said,
September 29, 2007 @ 0:34 · Edit
Thank you very much! I had tried a sweater pattern for my chihuahua babies and ended up having to make a teddy bear sweater out of it because the “back flap” whatchacallit ended up on the side and not the back! My babies and I thank you. :idea: :lol:
Anita said,
November 11, 2007 @ 6:08 · Edit
This is amazing! Thanks for the tutorial! I avoid making things with “sl st chain 1″ because I have never truly figured it out! I’ll try these techniques. Much appreciation!
Blue Ridge Mountain Girl said,
March 14, 2008 @ 15:49 · Edit
Hi,
Thanks so much for this tutorial. I especially like the alternative joins. I think mine tend to look a bit messy, so I look forward to trying them.
Blue Ridge Mountain Girl
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