Crochet "Chat"

[baustin]

I love those blocks. You're coming along just fine. Did we ever decide on a date to have the blocks finished?

 

[bhazell123]

Lol here's something I tried doin today and got this

 

[SunnyDawn]

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Wow, that's cute!

 

[bhazell123]

Thankiez

 

[Smitty's Farm]

Hi everyone~

baustin~ The deadline is Nov 4th to complete our squares.

I love the story of all the ladies taking their knitting to the picture show and hearing the click, click, click.

Here's a link to the crochet swap
~Fall 2011 Crochet Granny Square SWAP~
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=561816

bumblebee~ What a cool book!!!! I think it's wonderful you found some of your great grandmother's patterns. That is so special. I wish I had my grandmother's patterns.

bhazell~ Wow...you are hookin right along!!! Way to go!

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

Ok veteran hookers, I need some help.

I've been working on my first beanie and it's not taking a rounded dome shape. What am I doing wrong?

 

[SunnyDawn]

Looks like you started reducing too late. As you move out from your original circle the amount of additional stitches required for a doily are less for a beenie. If the hat doesn't curve nicely then the pattern is calling for too many additional stitches in each round. At the end it looks like the additional stitches were stopped all at once giving you a suddenly straight edge. Like you might use for a basket. You could always start reducing at this stage and use it as a beret. Although the sides are already too long for a beret.

I would rip out to about the 4th row and use a few less stitches in each succeeding row. That will correct the problem. Once you've done a few of these you won't even have to follow a pattern you'll know, by the curve of the hat, as your working what to add to get a nice form fit.

 

[Smitty's Farm]

greensfamilyfarm~ That is exactly what I did the first time I tried to do a beanie cap. I'll send you a pattern that jen4 shared w/ me that I found so much easier for me to read and they make adorable beanies.

 

[pooh731]

I have a hard time trying to read those books. Some of those stitches are hard to do when you don't understand them. That is my problem.

 

[pooh731]

I have a hard time understanding some of the stitches and when I try them they don't turn out right like the picture shows