How to Crochet a Sphere / Hacky Sack || Crocheting 101: Project 4

[@emmastrom9390]

This was very helpful, thank you for making it!

[@patriciathompson4876]

Thank you. Very helpful. My daughter wants animals for the grandkids for Christmas.

[@arandomchannel4750]

Thanks!! My dad loves his new hacky sack!!

[@sophies26]

am i the only one who can’t get the magic circle 👁👄👁

[@patriciathompson4876]

No

[@JESS-vz5gu]

OMFG I FINNALY DID THE MAGIC LOOP LETTS GOOOOOOOOOO

[@JESS-vz5gu]

done one hour later its 2 am I gotta sleep ☠️

[@spiritofthefox7257]

How do you know how many rows to put in between to get the ball shape

[@louiesloops]

I usually try to make slightly more Rows in single crochets as it did in increasing Rnds. For example, if you made 3 Rnds of increasing to get up to 18 sts, I would likely make 4 Rnds of single crochets before decreasing down. I don't know the exact math for this, but that's just my general rule :) Test it out!!

[@sophies26]

my tail just tightens the rest of the stitches like the bottom loop it does nothing to the top loop any help? edit: omg i got it after like try 20 lol

[@glazlydonut7435]

How? I’ve done it a million times and it won’t work.

[@sophies26]

@@glazlydonut7435 I found a different tutorial I like more now that I use but I have no idea how I got this one lol

[@laurieandersen4155]

I think that you are actually crocheting in a spiral, not a round. From what I have seen in hat patterns, crocheting in the round means completing the round with a slip stitch. Then you chain one and single crochet into the first stitch and this starts a new round. Other than startling me with that wording, I think the tutorial was excellent ☺

[@louiesloops]

That's actually called "Joining in the Round" and is another form of crocheting in the round. I actually have a video for that as well :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJfZdaCApJeLjJY

[@laurieandersen4155]

Ah, uh not sure 'bout that. Round crochet is called round because it has distinct round rows. Spiral looks like a spiral. Round prevents your stitches from crawling in color changes like in your sonic screwdriver-which I had to try. 😄 That is why you had to adjust the last row of cream. I tried doing a pattern of a minecraft creeper hat without doing it in the round and did it in spiral. . . Ugh. The squares were Not square. That's where I realized there was a difference.

[@louiesloops]

Hmmm.. maybe we we're just taught differently. I was always taught that crocheting "in the round" means working in a circle and there we're different ways to crochet in the round (ie. joining in the round vs. working in a spiral). Joining in the round let's you control the end of the Rnd color changes, like you said, but working in a spiral (I've found) gives you more control of color changes on a stitch to stitch basis (ie: making the top of the stitch one color and the bottom another), which is why I use it so often in my little "pod people" amigurumi characters.

[@laurieandersen4155]

Yeah, you are right. I have been doing a bit of searching my beliefs, and I found it comes from non - U.S. pattern designs. You say single crochet, I say double crochet type of thing. And if I take a step back, crocheting in the round can be a generalized term for crocheting around a chained core of stitches of which spiral crochet is definitely that. Guess what? We're both right! YAY!