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Easter is on its way… and March is Crochet Month, so I put the two together, and have been crocheting a little bunny in one of my current favorite yarns—Classic Elite's Fresco.
It's not finished yet, and I want to make another one before posting the pattern—for a few reasons. See that diagonal line across the bunny's belly… yeah—that shouldn't be there. Plus, I may as well take advantage of the opportunity to recheck the pattern.
My mom taught me the basics to crochet when I was pretty young. At that age, I could never exactly remember the details of what she taught me, but I understood the concept of the things she'd show me. For example: I knew that crochet could be worked in the round, and that there is a join at the end of each round, but I often struggled with where to begin and end the round, and how to join.
This is actually something I've continued to struggle with until now. I keep learning a new way of doing this, that seems better than the previous in some way or another. This little bunny taught me a lot. I began working the bunny using the method of joining that was currently the method I was using. However with each join, the stitches would shift one to the left.
Since this little bunny is so small, by the time I got to the head and shaped the ears, I noticed that this one stitch left shift had created a diagonal line running across either the belly or the head of the bunny. Either way it faced, there is a diagonal line.
It then dawned on me that that method of beginning, ending and joining was probably not ideal. So, I tried another one—one that I'd never tried before, but that makes lots of sense to me at the moment.
Below I've described the three different methods I've used throughout my life, and include photos of what they look like after being worked for many rounds. I can't say that any one of them is *better* than the other, or if there is a right way to do it. I think it may depend on the project that's being made at the time. As I said above, before now, I'd only used method's 1 and 2—method 3 is the one I just figured out.
Hopefully the info below will help you to understand better which method of joining will give you what result. Happy Crochet Month!
For a foundation for each of these methods, I've made a ring of 20 sc. Each round as described below will maintain 20 sc in each round.
Method 1: (shown above)
At the beginning of the round, loosely ch 1 (this counts as your first sc), sc 19, slip stitch into the ch-1 st to join. Repeat this round.
Method 2: (shown above)
At the beginning of the round, ch 1 (this does NOT count as a stitch), sc into the next empty sc, then sc into the following 19 sts, slip stitch into the first sc to join.
Repeat this round.
Method 3: (shown above)
At the beginning of the round, ch 1 (this does NOT count as a stitch), sc into the same sc that was used for the joining slip st of the previous round, sc into the following 19 sts, slip stitch into the first sc to join.
Repeat this round
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