Having trouble with C2C blanket and feeling totally lost, help!
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imgur.comPosted Oct 21, 2016, 10:07 PM UTC
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imgur.comI don't think anything is wrong with it? I haven't made it to the decreases on my first c2c yet, so I'm not 100% sure. But the instructions I used are here on craftsy, and I am finding them super helpful so far! So maybe you can consult it for your c2c?
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I have made many square c2c blankets, and you do have to decrease at the beginning and end of each row. At the end you don't work into the side of the last block, you just slip stitch into it and turn. Then you slip stitch over to the side of the first square of the new row (which is really the last square you just made) and start working there. So there is no more chaining 6 and working into the chains to make a new block, like you were doing when you were increasing.
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Okay, I'll try this. Wish me luck! I'll let you know how it turns out.
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If you've never heard of the crochet crowd, I highly recommend using their patterns and videos. Mikey is awesome and his videos have helped me through so many difficulties in learning to crochet. Here is his c2c video. Sometimes just watching someone else do it can help more than reading the pattern over and over. I hope this helps! This video helped me through my first c2c. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNrS4s5C8vc
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Finding a Mikey video is the first thing I did when I had a problem, but in this case, it left me still confused because he shows how to do a rectangle in that video. He did briefly mention how to make it into a square, but didn't show it and I was still baffled. Thank you so much for the suggestion though, very kind of you :)
Also, I would loooove to see Corgi pictures! I have a Great Pyrenees and a Husky mix, but also completely love Corgis and am going to finally get one someday :D
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Did you figure out the blanket? I have always made mine rectangles. Though, I assume you would just keep going without ending any corners until you were ready to decrease.
Also, this is my pooch :) http://imgur.com/a/pJ3xb
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First off: the pictures were taken with an iPad and the lighting is off, but that yarn is purple and both pictures are from opposite ends of the same big stripe.
This is my first C2C blanket. I want to make a square. I started out using the directions from this pattern http://www.redheart.com/free-patterns/crochet-corner-corner-throw Everything went fine until it came time to decrease. The directions in the pattern didn't make sense to me, so I started following the decrease directions from this pattern http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/corner-to-corner-c2c-corner-start-tutorial, except I did the decrease row for every row because those directions of alternating increase and decrease rows make a rectangle and I want a square. I've done 3 rows of decreases, and as you can see, it looks WEIRD. One end is symmetrical with 3 rows on either side of the widest row, but the other end is asymmetrical with 4 rows on one side of the widest row and 2 rows on the other side.
Does anyone know what's going on and how to fix it? I want it to be symmetrical.
Thanks!
It looks to me like one side decreased and the other didn't on one of the rows. To fix it, I think you will need to frog it back three rows to where the end with three and five squares makes a corner, then make sure to decrease on that corner. Does that make sense?
What I've been doing is decreasing at the front of each row, then continuing like usual all the way to the end. I get what you're saying that maybe I was supposed to decrease at the beginning and end of each row, but that's kind of confusing because the blanket's shape is perfect. If I continue in the same fashion, I'm pretty sure I'll end up with a perfect square. If I decrease at the end of the row as well as the beginning, won't that mess it up since I'd be losing two stitches per row instead of just one?