when I crochet an afghan my ends seem to come out uneven help me. If you don’t crochet please don’t answer thanks.
EMERY
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They mainly get better with practice.
To keep the ends straight, just make sure you are crocheting in all the stitches.
One thing I do when turning is ignore what they say about chaining and counting that as a stitch and skipping the first stitch (only when doing stitches taller than sc). To me there’s a hole and looks uneven. What I do instead is this. Say for double crochet - at the end I will chain two not so loosely so it’s as tall as it needs to be then double crochet in the first stitch and don’t count the chain as a stitch. That makes that edge a bit more smooth.
Other than that, just make sure you are crocheting in all the stitches in the beginning and end of rows. What happens also is when the pattern says to skip the first stitch (the part I vary) and you don’t, you end up adding things sometimes. Count stitches in rows now and then to make sure it is staying even.
Hope that helps.
if you are doing a double crochet afgan, when you get to the last stitch at the end of a row, you do your last double crochet then you chain 3 when your starting your next row instead of doing a double crochet. then in the next hole is your double crochet. you do this chain 3 at the beginning of every row. if you are doing a single crochet, you chain 1 at the beginning then do your single crochet in the second hole after that. I’m not sure of the pattern you are doing, but I am assuming it’s one of those two. I grew up crocheting and could never figure out till about a few years ago that you have to do this or the edges look terrible.
Even if the edges aren’t “perfect” you can always do a border around the whole edge.
If you have any questions you can email me.
Are you crocheting a “ripple” afghan? Are you crocheting a pattern that directs you to make your stitches in the “front loop only” or “back loop only”?
In either of these circumstances, the edges tend to be uneven and will even curl up on you, unless you take some precautions…
For the ripple afghan, be sure you are counting your stitches so that the same number of stitches is in each row. Adding the extra stitches at the top of a ripple, and skipping stitches at the bottom of the ripple is an important instruction to follow, else the whole pattern can become lopsided…
If you are crocheting in the front-or-back loop only, one way to straighten the ends is to crochet in BOTH loops for the first two or three stitches AND the last two or three stitches on each end of the rows.
If you are doing a chain at the end of a row to begin the next row, be consistent in this (unless your pattern changes for the new row). Also remember that when you begin a row with a turning chain, you will need to crochet in the top of that turning chain when you get back to that end. Not doing so will shorten your number of stitches and make your rows uneven.
Hope I helped. Happy crocheting!
i know what your talking about. when i started crocheting (i taught myself) the end of anything came out uneven. I recently picked up that projects to finish it and found out that i have missed stitches by mistake and sometimes have 3 stitches in one stitch which caused the edges to come out uneven along with that i didnt do the turning chain at the end. here let me give you some advice on this situation.
make sure that you crochet in all the loops that are needed when your working in lace. if your working in straight crochet then work all the loops only once. to make it easier try working with bulky or super bulky smooth yarn with a large hook, you get to see the stitches easier and faster this way. trust me.
at the end of the row you need to do a turning chain. if its single crochet (sc) then you would chain one and then turn your work. if its a half double crochet (hd) the you would chain 2, if its a double crochet (dc) then you would chain 3.
after that it does takes some practice to get the hang of the work then it will get to become second nature.
All good answers, but I find the easiest way is to keep counting your stitches so you always have the correct amount. I try to count to myself as I am working. Otherwise, every couple of rows, stop and count. Nothing is more frustrating than doing a bunch of rows and finding out that maybe 10 rows back, you added too many stitches, and you have to rip out all that work to fix it. Good luck.
