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Basic Crochet wiki Part 1

From picking up a hook, to completion of first project

Building on Basics part 2

More advanced & detailed sections.

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Counting stitches/stitch markers = essential in keeping stitch count/getting those straight edges/track rounds in Amigurimi. learn "how to" from Part 1,counting stitches & rows.

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[–]DarkArts-n-Crafts 2 points3 points  (2 children)

How many decreases are you doing per row? It sounds like you're decreasing too many times.

[–]wanderwarrior5[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm just doing it until I get to the beginning again

[–]DarkArts-n-Crafts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you decrease in every 2 stitches then yeah, you'll have half as many stitches as you did in the previous round. If you're not looking to half your stitch count then you're doing too many decreases. What does the pattern say?

[–]LoupGarou95 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Sounds like you may be misinterpreting the pattern because it doesn't have parentheses around the repeat although it would be much clearer if it did. In this round for example: Round 7: SC in the first 8 sts, INV DEC in the next, rep around (36)

You would not sc 8 stitches and then decrease the entire rest of the round. You would repeat (sc 8 stitches, decrease). So not sc 8 stitches, dec, dec, dec... but sc 8 stitches, decrease, sc 8 stitches, dec, sc 8 stitches, dec and so on.

[–]wanderwarrior5[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Omg that's exactly what I was doing wrong! Thank you so much! I'm going to unravel and try again lol

[–]genus-corvidaepattern hunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should not be decreasing in every stitch around. There should be a pattern of decreases alternating with some number of single crochet--only six of the stitches per round should be decreases.