New to Crochet, and my blankets get smaller as I go along!!!

Crochetmommy wrote

on Nov 29, 2008 11:25 AM

My SIL taught me how to crochet and each time as I move back and forth, one or two stitches seem to magically disappear...I try to be careful and go as far as possible but this seems to be something I am unable to avoid. I have started crocheting around what I have already completed, in hopes of making my first project successful.

Any advice??

Thanks :)

PaulineL wrote

on Nov 29, 2008 2:37 PM

Obviously you are skipping stitches. Wild guess - you are skipping the turning chain when you get to the end of the row. I'm assuming you are working all double crochet, no pattern stitch.

If you are doing a pattern stitch like shells or fans or filet, then reread the instructions for starting a row and ending a row. Look the stitch up on the web, if you can, to get a slightly different description.

And if my guesses are all wrong, then I hope another member here can set you right! Good luck.

Pauline

Crochetmommy wrote

on Nov 29, 2008 4:58 PM

Thanks Pauline!

I am doing a double crochet and at the end of each row I am doing what I think is 3 chain then back the other way. Maybe that is where I am dropping a stitch?? Perhaps I am doing 2 and thus losing length with my turn??

This is DEF one of those situations where I wish you could use my eyes!! lol

Yarn Loving Mommy!!

PaulineL wrote

on Nov 29, 2008 6:37 PM

If you think of the ch 2 or 3 as the first st of the new row, which it is, when you get to the end of the new row you'll need to dc into the *top* of the the turning ch, the ch 3 that began the previous row. It's a skimpy looking dc, so that may be why you miss it sometimes. If that is what you are doing. The view from your eyeballs would be helpful, lol.

There are videos of basic crochet stitches, Google for them, and they *should* describe what to do at the beginning and end of the row. If you skip a stitch in the middle I think it would be easy to see, so that's why I'm guessing the missing stitches are at the ends.

Pauline

PS Does your stitch count get less from beginning to end? That's what I was assuming. Crocheting tighter, putting more tension on the yarn as you go along could make your blanket narrower without missing any stitches. I think you'd be aware of that, though.