Pattern Question/Confusion
This is kind of a shot in the dark, but can anyone help me with this pattern? https://web.archive.org/web/20130116031628/http://www.marloscrochetcorner.com/Plastic%20Bag%20tote.html My problem is that I somehow keep adding a stitch with each round. I've been trying to compensate and was sticking between 54-56 stitches per round, but I'm now on row 15 and have 60 stitches. Also, the starting point for each round has spiraled around and is about 10 stitches farther down. Is that to be expected with a pattern like this?
Thanks!
Posted Sep 17, 2016, 10:50 AM UTC
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If it works in continuous rounds (not joining at the end of each row) then your starting point probably will spiral around. To combat the stitch adding problem use a stitch marker in the beginning of each round (a bobby pin or safety pin works) and count your stitches as you work the round. If you added one somewhere when you get to the end, you can skip a stitch or decrease if it's just one or two, otherwise pull it out and try again.
The pattern does have you join at the end of each round, which is what I've been doing, but it's still moving around the side of the bag. I'm sure the extra stitch is coming somewhere when I'm ending/beginning each round. Am I supposed to HDC into the same stitch that I chained 1 from at the beginning of the round?
The good news is that, hey, it's a bag made of bags and is only going to look so nice. You can't tell by looking at it that it has a few extra stitches.
You would slip stitch into whatever the first stitch of the last round was. I didn't look at the pattern myself, so I'm not sure, but if it says the ch at the beginning of the round counts as a stitch you should slip stitch there. If it doesn't say that that counts as a stitch, then you should be slip stitching into the first actual hdc of the round.