This is the best! Thank you!! I’ve always heard “never crochet into that last stitch” “it’s not a stitch” It appears to me that’s what makes that awful gap in circles. I stopped making hats in the round because of the seam and mainly that darn gap! I really appreciate you sharing this with us so very much!
I love the way your camerawork is so close in to enable us to follow exactly what you are doing. Size of needle and yarn is not important because of proximity of camera to your work. The written instructions and explanation about diagram patterns is the first time I “get” it. I appreciate the way you explain very slowly and repeat just enough times for newbies like me to understand. Good job!
I think I’m going to have to watch this video again to really understand what is going on! It will be so useful to learn this technique. I am someone who learns better from a written pattern! Thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! Your instructions are clear and easy to understand and you held you work so close to the camera that we could see absolutely everything! That has always been the problem for me if I try to follow a video - they just aren't close enough and often they go too fast. I'm so grateful for your attention to these details. You can be sure I will be following everything you put out! :)
Thank yoi for this video. I watched like 20 and my circle just didn't want to happen until I followed your instructions. The best video in the net for this topic!
I appreciate all of your hard work and your preparation to make this video for us. Thank you for sharing your love of crochet with us who wish to learn and had no one to teach us - I'm 59.
i was always told that last stich is the sli[ stich to close the round so we dont work into it but you have and it works perfecly thank you so much for sharing you research and knolage with us all here on youtube i only found you few days ago and subscribed right away your videos are amazing
One of the best detailed straight seam video. I looked at several, many good ones, but for some reason they didn't work for me. Yours is very slow spoken and for us new crocheters, very helpful. Even though Im a new one in this field, I am very strict in having my work done neatly, so that seam was driving me bunkers. Thank you for sharing.
Hello! I want to add my voice to thank you for this video. It has helped me tremendously!! I can now do the circles on my own! I'm so proud of myself :-) Very much appreciate all the time and detail you put into this explanation. God bless you.
best explanations with diagram , anyone can do it on their own .. you taught me to fish... will the same work with SC and HDC please upload a video for seam less working in rows for a purse god bless you.
I had to watch this video about 3 times over, but as soon as it snapped i was like woooooooooooo yea. This is beautiful. Thank you so much for this. Not my hats will be that muh more attractive when stretched at the seam. You rock!!!!
This is the absolute best instructional video. So easy to follow. Now all I have to do is find as good a video to continue making a beanie/hat in the round with a straight seam. Any suggestions?
Thank you so much for this video, You taught me how to make a circle without the gaps and taught me the formlaur on how to make the circle as big as I want. I am so happy again thank you. This is a great understanding of the subject you are a good teacher. Please keep making video's.I have liked and subscribed.
This is a great video.. thank you this!!!! what I love about this video is this works with all types of yarn just gotta switch up how many dc you do in first round to make it work.. love it!!!
Thank you so much! Perfect and complete instructions. OMG, after this video I will not more avoid circular crochet projects because I really don't like the huge gaps. Btw, lovely voice. Hugs from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
+Suely fomm kerpker muito obrigado. Circular projects are very pretty and easy to handle. I’m very happy to hear that this tutorial was useful for you. Have a nice day
You've got a great technique here and I appreciate you taking the time to share with the public. If I could offer some advice, it would be easier for viewers to see what you are doing if you used a bigger hook and yarn. Also I appreciate that English may not be your first language but maybe a quick brush up on 'standard' crochet abbreviations. Where you've been writing 2dc tog I've usually (90%) seen that referred to as a decrease. 2dc tog or dc2 tog, 2dc dec, dc2 dec. I know everyone has their own way but just a heads up. I have used this technique for circles for years and they always look great, always hold up. Thank you for a well thought out well planned and clear video. Loved your blackboard!
Can you help me understand why you use a chain two for a turning chain with the double crochet rounds when in the last video you used a chain three for a start of double crochet rounds. Also, why do you join the slip stitch into the first double crochet in that first round and not into the top of the turning chain? I also don't understand how you sometimes count the turning chain as a double crochet when finishing the round, but have said in other rounds you don't count the turning chain as a stitch. I find this so confusing. Thank you.
Do you have this in a written pattern as well? This is great - I am trying to make chair pads and my circle keeps curling - this is the BEST I have seen yet! Thank you!!
Loved your tutorial. I make Amigurumis and even through I know and work the correct increase process, in a Magic Circle, I find that my first 3 rounds are puckered and the work does not lay flat. I've tried not carrying the tail so that there's less thickness in those first rounds, but that hasn't made a difference. I've tried working a little loser, but that hasn't helped. The work still has a pucker and somewhat torpedo shape. I'm at my wits end. Can you suggest something please ? Thank you in advance. Ginny
This is an excellent instructional video and thank you so much!!! I will be looking for more of your videos. (P.S. Did you know that "crochet" is a French word, like many others we have adopted into English -- "bouquet" for example -- and it's pronounced "crow-shay")
can you do a video on crocheting in the round with half doubles and how to keep your circle flat.i have a pattern that says slip stitch and chain 2 but the designer doesn't say where to slip a stitch and if the chain 2 counts as a stitch.my count in the magic circle is 12.
A great video and you are a very good teacher. Do you have a way for me to get a copy of you diagram? That would be very helpful to me. I am a slower crocheter.
I'm very happy Jo that you find this tip useful. The gap in the seam is a very common issue that can be fixed easily as you have seen in the video. Stay tune for more tips :)
In each round you just add one more dc before each increase. For instance in round , you will crochet 10 dc and then 2 dc in the next stitch ( a total of st in each repeat).
Every time I do the circle, it curls up? Need help please, I start with the magic circle, then 9,12,18...then the curl happens. New to crocheting and knitting. Been doing good with simple scarfs, blankets...now I am trying to crochet a beanie.
I just commented but wanted to ask at end of round really should be 1 DC ya end instead of 2 like on video and is it the turning chain you are slip stitching at end of each round thanks
With this method you make your last dc in the same st as the starting ch2 (which constitutes the last inc), then join in the top of the 1st dc (NOT in the turning ch).
+Stacy Tucker thank you for your message 😉Following this technique you can add as many rounds as you wish. Your blanket will look very cute. If you have any other question, just write a msg Have a nice day 🌺
I am working a water bottle pattern that uses single crochet where you use double crochet. Can I use the same process starting with Row 3, working single crochet instead of double crochet?
This is the best! Thank you!! I’ve always heard “never crochet into that last stitch” “it’s not a stitch” It appears to me that’s what makes that awful gap in circles. I stopped making hats in the round because of the seam and mainly that darn gap! I really appreciate you sharing this with us so very much!
I love the way your camerawork is so close in to enable us to follow exactly what you are doing. Size of needle and yarn is not important because of proximity of camera to your work. The written instructions and explanation about diagram patterns is the first time I “get” it. I appreciate the way you explain very slowly and repeat just enough times for newbies like me to understand. Good job!
I have spent hours trying to find this excellent tutorial. I am now a happy camper. Thank you for giving us this tutorial.
I think I’m going to have to watch this video again to really understand what is going on! It will be so useful to learn this technique. I am someone who learns better from a written pattern! Thank you.
Thanks a lot . At last a perfect circle that is flat and has no gaps and no showing starting chains . THANK you 💗
Omg..after all these years--I GOT IT. You're the best in the whole world. Thank you ever so much. I'm so HAPPY, my projects look alot better.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! Your instructions are clear and easy to understand and you held you work so close to the camera that we could see absolutely everything! That has always been the problem for me if I try to follow a video - they just aren't close enough and often they go too fast. I'm so grateful for your attention to these details. You can be sure I will be following everything you put out! :)
Thank yoi for this video. I watched like 20 and my circle just didn't want to happen until I followed your instructions. The best video in the net for this topic!
Iordanka Stefanova Thank you so much for your comment! This is a great motivation for me to continue making more videos. Stay tuned for more ;-)
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I appreciate all of your hard work and your preparation to make this video for us. Thank you for sharing your love of crochet with us who wish to learn and had no one to teach us - I'm 59.
Yes. This one is perfect! Every work need to do circle crochet I will use this method and it turns so neat, beautiful n flat. Love it ❤️
Finally, instructions I can understand and I can now make a circle I don't end up hating . It is perfect. Thank you very much. Lilly.
Best video on this topic!
Thanks dear..l watched so many videos to learn double crochet circle ..your teaching is very clear and understood it correctly😍😍😍
Thank you for this video. Your instructions are excellent. I'm a visual learner and this makes so much sense to me.
Dawn Rearden I'm so happy to hear that!! 🌹
I make flat circle successfuly by your tutorial.
Thank you
THE BEST TUTORIAL on how to avoid that annoying traveling seam! Thank you!!
Wow! That was very clear and I have confidence now that I will be able to straighten out my seams. Thank you. I am subscribing now.
i was always told that last stich is the sli[ stich to close the round so we dont work into it but you have and it works perfecly thank you so much for sharing you research and knolage with us all here on youtube i only found you few days ago and subscribed right away your videos are amazing
Excellent teaching. I have done the whole thing five times - hope it will stick in my mind. Thank you.
One of the best detailed straight seam video. I looked at several, many good ones, but for some reason they didn't work for me. Yours is very slow spoken and for us new crocheters, very helpful. Even though Im a new one in this field, I am very strict in having my work done neatly, so that seam was driving me bunkers. Thank you for sharing.
Hello! I want to add my voice to thank you for this video. It has helped me tremendously!! I can now do the circles on my own! I'm so proud of myself :-) Very much appreciate all the time and detail you put into this explanation. God bless you.
best explanations with diagram , anyone can do it on their own .. you taught me to fish... will the same work with SC and HDC
please upload a video for seam less working in rows for a purse god bless you.
Thank you so much,you did explain it very well and made it also
Very useful! I don't understand the written illustration but I id well following along step by step.
Thank you so much for your video. The explanations and instructions were excellent. I will be working in the round this way now.
You are very welcome! Stay tuned for more tips :)
Wonderful teacher!!!
You have transformed my beanies! Thank you for your amazing videos!
I had to watch this video about 3 times over, but as soon as it snapped i was like woooooooooooo yea. This is beautiful. Thank you so much for this. Not my hats will be that muh more attractive when stretched at the seam. You rock!!!!
Thank you so very much for such an awesome video. Your method of teaching is simply superb.
Thanks you for your video on the circle, I like your crocheting style. Much neater and nicely done.
This is the absolute best instructional video. So easy to follow. Now all I have to do is find as good a video to continue making a beanie/hat in the round with a straight seam. Any suggestions?
Thank you so much for this video, You taught me how to make a circle without the gaps and taught me the formlaur on how to make the circle as big as I want. I am so happy again thank you. This is a great understanding of the subject you are a good teacher. Please keep making video's.I have liked and subscribed.
Thank you SO much for your excellent explanation! I had to practice several times but I finally caught on. Thank you, Thank you , Thank you! :)
Thank you sooo much its nice and round, God bless you!!!
This is a great video.. thank you this!!!! what I love about this video is this works with all types of yarn just gotta switch up how many dc you do in first round to make it work.. love it!!!
Very well explain thank you very much 👌
Thank you. You are a wonderful instructor. Love your videos.😊❤️
I LOVE HOW YOU TALK INGLISH
This was SO helpful! I can’t thank you enough for posting this video.
Excellent Teaching.!👏👏 thank you.!🌹
Thank you so much! Perfect and complete instructions. OMG, after this video I will not more avoid circular crochet projects because I really don't like the huge gaps. Btw, lovely voice. Hugs from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
+Suely fomm kerpker muito obrigado. Circular projects are very pretty and easy to handle. I’m very happy to hear that this tutorial was useful for you. Have a nice day
Thanks to your class!! I finally managed to do a good job! I am very grateful!! ❤️🇧🇷
You've got a great technique here and I appreciate you taking the time to share with the public. If I could offer some advice, it would be easier for viewers to see what you are doing if you used a bigger hook and yarn.
Also I appreciate that English may not be your first language but maybe a quick brush up on 'standard' crochet abbreviations.
Where you've been writing 2dc tog I've usually (90%) seen that referred to as a decrease. 2dc tog or dc2 tog, 2dc dec, dc2 dec.
I know everyone has their own way but just a heads up.
I have used this technique for circles for years and they always look great, always hold up.
Thank you for a well thought out well planned and clear video. Loved your blackboard!
Can you help me understand why you use a chain two for a turning chain with the double crochet rounds when in the last video you used a chain three for a start of double crochet rounds. Also, why do you join the slip stitch into the first double crochet in that first round and not into the top of the turning chain? I also don't understand how you sometimes count the turning chain as a double crochet when finishing the round, but have said in other rounds you don't count the turning chain as a stitch. I find this so confusing. Thank you.
Thank you. This is the best video to make a perfect circle
Do you have this in a written pattern as well? This is great - I am trying to make chair pads and my circle keeps curling - this is the BEST I have seen yet! Thank you!!
Finally I understand! It’s like you’re teaching me one on one 😄 thank you!!
Thank you for sharing this video very informative.
You are very welcome Anita! I hope this video was useful for you. If you have any doubt, just let me know. Have a nice day 🌸
thanks a lot for sharing! finally ! you are the best teacher!
Thank you for this tutorial, finally I understand how to make this circle. I'm a begginer in crochet 😀
Would it be the same if I do my work with HDC? Would my turning chain still be two chain?
Thank you. Wonderful tutorial. Very clear.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR EXCELLENT AND CLEAR EXPLANATION
I watched 16 videos on this and I couldn't get it right, I got my circle perfect on the first try watching your video! Thank you so much!
Confused at first, but now I got it!!
Excellent tutorial many thanks
Thank you so much for such detailed instructions. Really nice to learn from you.😊❤️💐
This is just wonderful!!! So glad I found your channel!
I love this method, thanks for sharing.
Oh Im so glad I found your video! Thank you!!!!!!
Thanks mam for your valuable information.
Do you do the same thing for a half double crochet? When you want to flat circle in the round
Yey! 2 thumbs up! so inspired on your tutorial! Thanks for sharing😊😘😊
perfect video! very nicely explained. thank you :)
I find it very helpful.
The best video! Thanks.
Thanks a million for this video very useful
Thank you, excellent instructions
Very good tutorial and your English is good could I get the written directions thanks thanks again for tutorial
Loved your tutorial. I make Amigurumis and even through I know and work the correct increase process, in a Magic Circle, I find that my
first 3 rounds are puckered and the work does not lay flat. I've tried not carrying the tail so that there's less thickness in those first rounds, but that hasn't made a difference. I've tried working a little loser, but that hasn't helped. The work still has a pucker and somewhat torpedo shape.
I'm at my wits end. Can you suggest something please ? Thank you in advance. Ginny
This is an excellent instructional video and thank you so much!!! I will be looking for more of your videos. (P.S. Did you know that "crochet" is a French word, like many others we have adopted into English -- "bouquet" for example -- and it's pronounced "crow-shay")
Awesome tutorial 👍
can you do a video on crocheting in the round with half doubles and how to keep your circle flat.i have a pattern that says slip stitch and chain 2 but the designer doesn't say where to slip a stitch and if the chain 2 counts as a stitch.my count in the magic circle is 12.
A great video and you are a very good teacher. Do you have a way for me to get a copy of you diagram? That would be very helpful to me. I am a slower crocheter.
BRILLIANT VIDEO!! xx
+Jan Henderson thank you! Happy to hear that you like the video 😃
Thank you for this information. I have always disliked the seam I have in all my rounds.
I'm very happy Jo that you find this tip useful. The gap in the seam is a very common issue that can be fixed easily as you have seen in the video. Stay tune for more tips :)
This is the best I've seen for instructions and concepts. Do you do left handed tutorials?
Loom hat straight seam
Will it spiral if I stop increasing and start working up to make hat?
Thank you thank you thank youuuuuu🙏💝💐
Thank you so much, but what if I want to continue 3 more rounds?
In each round you just add one more dc before each increase. For instance in round , you will crochet 10 dc and then 2 dc in the next stitch ( a total of st in each repeat).
Every time I do the circle, it curls up? Need help please, I start with the magic circle, then 9,12,18...then the curl happens. New to crocheting and knitting. Been doing good with simple scarfs, blankets...now I am trying to crochet a beanie.
Great!! I loved it!
Thank u sooooo much😊
THANKYOU THANKYOU!!! This is the first tutorial that let my circle looks perfect!!!!
I’m trying to make a circle throw blanket, but after about the 12 rounds the blanket doesn’t lay flat. What could I be doing wrong?
Do you have a video that you do a crochet oval rug with cotton yarn?
I just commented but wanted to ask at end of round really should be 1 DC ya end instead of 2 like on video and is it the turning chain you are slip stitching at end of each round thanks
With this method you make your last dc in the same st as the starting ch2 (which constitutes the last inc), then join in the top of the 1st dc (NOT in the turning ch).
I am trying to make a baseball blanket can you use the same format or is this for smaller circles
+Stacy Tucker thank you for your message 😉Following this technique you can add as many rounds as you wish. Your blanket will look very cute. If you have any other question, just write a msg
Have a nice day 🌺
Thank u so much.. would u please make a tutorial about tapestry or wayuu bag
+Indri Yuliandri thank you for your comment! A tutorial about tapestry is a great idea 💡 thank you for the suggestion
Especatacular !!! Podrías hacerlo en español ??? Muchas gracias.
its very helpful
thank you for sharing ☺
You are very welcome ;)
I am working a water bottle pattern that uses single crochet where you use double crochet. Can I use the same process starting with Row 3, working single crochet instead of double crochet?
I am not a prof, but the patterns I did thus far, it works the same with single crochet
Thank you soo much
The edges of the flat circle gets turned pls tell me why
Great video and instruction. I only wish you would have used a bigger hook, it's hard to see your stitches.
Nice
Giovi - I think I just watched another video that answered my question.
Thank you
I cant do it properly please tell me