Crochet "Chat"

[speckledhen]

If you are doing a DC around, use TC for the parts where the two squares connect. That gives a bit more length where the squares are shortest and allows the remaining rows to be even. I would leave this one like it is because it looks great! For the next one, if you do your first round in HDC then do DC where the squares join. The next row will be even and the dips where the squares join will look like you planned it that way

Thank you for that tip! I wondered if I should make a longer stitch in those places, but couldn't find anything to tell me what to do. I could end up taking the entire border back down or leave as is. It's not really that bad, even though I flubbed up and used the too big hook all the way through. Why, oh, why did I not realize this before I finished the entire border??

 

[CarolinaHen]

Thank you for that tip! I wondered if I should make a longer stitch in those places, but couldn't find anything to tell me what to do. I could end up taking the entire border back down or leave as is. It's not really that bad, even though I flubbed up and used the too big hook all the way through. Why, oh, why did I not realize this before I finished the entire border??

I haven't seen any patterns that said to add the longer stitches, but the wavy lines just bothered me so much that I started trying to figure out a way to straighten it out. I wouldn't change the one you have done. It looks gorgeous!! No one will notice the wavy lines but you.

 

[speckledhen]

I haven't seen any patterns that said to add the longer stitches, but the wavy lines just bothered me so much that I started trying to figure out a way to straighten it out. I wouldn't change the one you have done. It looks gorgeous!! No one will notice the wavy lines but you.

Thank you! I appreciate your help and the compliment. I'm a bit of a recovering perfectionist, LOL. Comes from trying to make my quilting top quality all these years. Have to relax, don't I?

 

[CarolinaHen]

Thank you! I appreciate your help and the compliment. I'm a bit of a recovering perfectionist, LOL. Comes from trying to make my quilting top quality all these years. Have to relax, don't I?

Oh yes

Crocheting is much more forgiving than quilting

 

[speckledhen]

Oh yes

Crocheting is much more forgiving than quilting

Easier on my hands, too, which is one reason I enjoy it so much. I love quilts and the finished product but I go through some pain to get there.

 

[CarolinaHen]

I keep trying knitting, but I just can't get into it like I do crocheting. My great grandmother taught me to crochet as a very young child, so it's a "comfort food" for me

 

[speckledhen]

I keep trying knitting, but I just can't get into it like I do crocheting. My great grandmother taught me to crochet as a very young child, so it's a "comfort food" for me

My SIL, who put a crochet hook in my hand just over a year ago, said she doesn't care for knitting, mainly because mistakes are harder to go back and correct. I have never tried it. Until I started crocheting, quilting was my only hobby, other than chickens, of course.

 

[Kassaundra]

I have tried knitting a few times, never got good at all at it. The closest I come is Tunisian crochet, which is kinda like knitting.

 

[HollyDuckFarmer]

It looks gorgeous!!  No one will notice the wavy lines but you. 

X2

I use crochet hooks to fix most of my knitting mistakes. Plus I like to bind off knitting with crochet hooks, ususally a few sizes larger. Kass that is going to be beautiful. I wish I could do Tunisian.

 

[sewchick]

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