HELP! I am new at crochet and need help with joining in a round and counting stiches
Hi I am a beginner crocheter and I am having trouble with crocheting in a round and joining stiches.
Here is the pattern:
sc in 21 stiches round, join with a slip stitch to first single crochet, chain 1
The next row is the same. Do I join with the slip stich to the chain or the first actual sc?
I hope this makes sense and is not a stupid question.
Thanks for the feedback
Join with a sl st to the top of the first sc.
Your yarn is leading out from the top of the last sc, the one you just made, so you join to the top of the first sc and avoid a stair step.
Usually you are told to join the chain and then sc around. I think the designer was trying to simplify your life by joining after a row of sc. It's much harder to accidentally twist the row of sc before joining and very easy to accidentally twist a chain.
Amberleigh, I just wanted to say that you shouldn't ever worry that you're asking a stupid question. Crochet can be one of those things that takes a while to "click". I spent an entire day (a whole afternoon and most of an evening and the entire next morning) trying to work out how to move onto the next row from the foundation chain! It clicked after a while, but I still have "lightbulb moments" about how to do things, like on Saturday when I finally got my head around how you start off a top down raglan.