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Nancy Gartenman
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Nancy
West Seneca New York
USA
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Posted - Mar 05 2017 :  05:51:07 AM  Show Profile
I'm not real good at this. I'm going in a circle, like for a tablecloth. When it starts to ruffle on the outside, does that mean I need to increase or decrease? At the moment I have a really pretty ruffle that I don't want.
Nancy Jo

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quiltee
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Linda
Terrell TX
USA
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Posted - Mar 05 2017 :  06:02:10 AM  Show Profile  Send quiltee a Yahoo! Message
If your circular crochet is starting to ruffle, it seems to me that you have too many stitches and they need to ruffle to fit in.

Here's something that might help you.
https://www.craftsy.com/blog/2015/10/crochet-a-flat-circle/


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Linda O
Lone Oak, TX

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Ladybek9756
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Rebecca
Linneus Maine
USA
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Posted - Mar 05 2017 :  08:36:29 AM  Show Profile  Click to see Ladybek9756's MSN Messenger address  Send Ladybek9756 a Yahoo! Message
Nancy,
It means that you have to many stitches. The rule of thumb is to increase in intervals. For example after creating the ring for instance with 6 sc in the circle. The next rows will be as follows:
Row 2: 2 sc in each sc around
Row 3: Sc, 2sc in next sc. You would have 18 sc at the end of the row.
Row 4: sc in next 2 sc, 2sc in next sc. So this row every third sc you would do an increase.
Following this guideline, you would be adding the sc and inc in the next st. So row 5 would be 3 stitches before inc. Row 6 would be 4 stitches before inc. This will prevent the circle from creating a ruffle. I hope this helps.
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Becky

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Nancy Gartenman
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Nancy
West Seneca New York
USA
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Posted - Mar 05 2017 :  11:13:39 AM  Show Profile
Thank you Linda and Becky. That was helpful, Now lets see how it turns out.
Nancy Jo

https://myrockingchairandme.blogspot.com/
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