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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
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Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
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 Posted - Mar 05 2017 : 05:51:07 AM
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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
True Blue Farmgirl
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Linda
Terrell
TX
USA
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Posted - Mar 05 2017 : 06:02:10 AM
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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/
Farmgirl hugs,
Farmgirl #1919
Farm Girl of the Month August 2015
Linda O
Lone Oak, TX
"Women are Angels, and when someone breaks our wings, we simply continue to fly . . . on a broomstick - we're flexible, like that."
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Ladybek9756
True Blue Farmgirl
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Rebecca
Linneus
Maine
USA
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Posted - Mar 05 2017 : 08:36:29 AM
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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.
Hugs
Becky
May the stars carry your sadness away. May the flowers fill your heart with beauty, and may hope forever wipe away your tears.
Farm Girl of the Month December 2016
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
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West Seneca
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Crochet question??
