How To Circular Crochet
Wrap the yarn around and over the hook then pull it through the chain stitch to create a loop. Chain 2 to begin to double crochet.
What Im sharing is more of a recipe than a pattern.
How to circular crochet. MC ch 1 6 sc in MC 6 Rnd 2. Learn how to crochet in the round with more than color. Insert the left-hand hook into the second chain stitch from the hook.
Place a stitch marker in any of the stitches on the outside round. If you begin with 6 your stitch count will increase by 6 each round. Secondly it creates a nice ridge between each round and thirdly it makes it easy to crochet the motif using just one color.
Start your circle with the 6-8-10 rule for the perfect foundation. Make the required number of double crochet stitches for the round. Im sharing the principle behind crocheting in the round with more than one color but there isnt a specific end product in mind you can take the recipe and create something fun with it like a coaster cap wall hanging pillow.
2 sc in next st 1 sc in next st repeat between to end. A lot of crochet patterns will ask you to chain a few stitches then join them into a ring to get the circle going. Pick up the left-hand hook and chain 20 stitches with the yarn.
With a bit of imagination youll see that theres the potential to achieve all sorts of effects in hairpin crochet. Nov 14 2013 Crochet a ring. Ch 5 join with a sl st into first ch to create a ring.
Place three additional stitch markers equal spaces apart dividing the final number of stitches on the outside round by 4 tells you how many stitches should be in between each stitch marker. Nov 28 2018 Click on any image to enlarge. Ch 4 counts as beg ch 3 plus ch1 1 dc ch 1 into the ring.
Chain 5 slip stitch to join. Wrap the yarn over your hook called a yarn over and then insert your hook into the center hole. 2 sc in next st 1 sc in next 2 st repeat between to end.
You can alter the number of stitches in the first round. Apr 17 2010 Continue to double crochet using the center as an anchor. Crochet the circle to the point where it is ready to become a square then end off.
Jul 02 2020 When you follow the basic pattern below you will find that your circle will end up looking like a hexagon. Here Ive chained 10 and joined the first and last stitch with a slip stitch. Grab the yarn on the other side and pull it through the hole.
Apr 04 2021 Flipping the motif for each round prevents this from happening. Sep 15 2017 Arrange the circular crochet hooks so that the cable is uncoiled and one hook is on each side. This simple rule makes crocheting the first round of your circle a breeze.
Chain a magic ring on which to build your crochet in the round. Dec 20 2015 Round 6 2 sts worked into the first st 1 st worked into the next 4 sts repeated all the way around. 2 sc in each st.
72 sts And so on increasing the into the next X number of sts by 1 each round. For example you could change the dc stitches to something else such as dc ch4 to create a different effect down the spine of the hairpin. Mar 31 2021 Try making a circular crochet motif then join a hairpin strip around the outside.
Jan 10 2017 A crochet circle with double crochet stitches should have 10 stitches in the first round. Six for single crochets eight for half double crochets or ten for double crochets. If you were going to crochet say a hat youd probably want to chain more stitches depending on how big you need the hat brim to be.
You should now see three loops on your hook.
