Crochet in the Round: Magic Circle Start
May 6, 2011
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Thank you so much for this! I’ve only ever been able to find video tutorials and I can’t get on with them.
Sweet! Let me know how this tute works for you–I’m always worried that I’m not “clear” enough!
Thanks for this! It makes so much sense. I’ve only ever thought to chain my loop… well I have certainly learnt something new today! 🙂
Thanks for this, I’m printing it to keep with my stuff. I always had to keep going back to a book to remember how to do it. Have you ever heard of a double magic ring? I was trying to start a pattern and never heard of it.
Thank you! It finally makes sense to me.
This is perfect. May I link to it?
Sure! That’d be great 🙂
awesome,thanks.
Hi! Do you have a crochet pattern for a 6 pointed star? There’s a tutorial online, but I can’t understand. HELP!
Hi Jodi,
I don’t have one, but if you send me the link to the pattern you found online, I can try to figure it out for you. We have guests here this weekend, but later on I’ll try to find some patterns for you. Let me know about that link, though!
Thank you very much – I saw this in a book, but diagrams were not good, I couldn’t figure it out(I hate that). Now I know.
Thank you sooooo much! I am a beginner and this just saved me alot of frustration and alot of time 😀 I will def have to print this off!!
Ooo. Good! It’s been a while since I’ve been a beginner, so let me know if there are any other techniques you’d like to see tutorials for!
Thanks for the offer hehee I may take you up on that if I run into any issues 🙂 I have taught myself via books and the web!
I am making little newborn hats for my great niece who will be born this month and bookmarked this on my phone for when I start the second one 😀
Do you happen to know how to make a hibiscus flower to like attach to a hat? Or can you point me in a direction to find one? They are my best friends fav. and I’d like to surprise her but can’t seem to find one!
Thank you again for your very helpful post! 🙂
Hey, Melinda! I just rolled back into town, but I’ll check around the net when I get a chance 🙂
Dang, you’re right — this is all I found: http://www.etsy.com/listing/59109646/hibiscus-crochet-pattern-september-is?ref=sc_1
Maybe I’ll have to make up a hibiscus pattern . . .
Yeah I saw that one and couldn’t find any free ones!
If you could make one up I just might have to love you forever lol 😉
Btw I enjoy reading your blog now!
Reblogged this on The Crocheting Moms Corner and commented:
I love to use this things look so much nicer. The center is smoother and flatter than the traditional start to a circle, great for hats, mittens, anything really!
Can I add another thank you.
I do have to say time and time again,i always come back to your awesome technique.I know there are alot others out there ,I only get yours,your a great teacher!!!!!!pictures demonstration excellent!! thanks again
Oh, thank you so much — that’s so nice!
i like this idea its so creative.
Finally, instuctions I can understand for a few patterns I want to try. Thanks so much!
If you are making a beanie hat are you suppose to have an open hole in the center or is it ok if it closes up?
I almost always use the magic ring so that no hole shows. However, this is up to you. Maybe you’d want a small hole for a pom pom!
Thanks so much for a great post! This was very helpful and the pictures were perfect. Do you have any idea how I can fix a hole that ended up too big at the top of a hat? This is my first hat and I didn’t know about your handy way of closing up the hole in center. The hat is finished, but I wish it didn’t have such a big hole at the top.
Thanks!
You could try to weave a piece of yarn in and out of the stitches and cinch it shut, tying the yarn ends tight and weaving them into the hat. That’s what I would do. Or, you could make a pom pom and attach it through the hole! Or, you could crochet a horn and sew it over the hole to make a narwal hat 😉
This was so easy to follow! I have a really hard time following pictures and I did it the first time on this one!! Thank you!!
Do you have these instructions in PDF format? Because I can’t print from my iPad & iPod I save everything in iBooks. PDF’s come up with an option to save in iBooks. If I try to copy & paste into a word document I have to save each pic individually & then reformat & resize everything in it.
Your instructions are great, thank you.
No, sorry! I will consider starting to also create PDFs . . . it is extra work, but it might be worth it for y’all!
“Crochet in the Round: Magic Circle Start Speckless Blog” ended up
being really engaging and instructive! In todays world honestly,
that is quite hard to deliver. Regards, Caitlin
I have never ever been able to figure out the magic circle, and I’ve been crocheting for awhile! Thanks a lot
Hey there,
just stumbled upon this nice tutorial. Everything is clear to me apart from the step between picture 7 and 8. I really cannot figure out what you did there. I tried some strange loop combinations, but compared to picture 8 they seem to be wrong eventually. Could you explain this part in detail? (A picture might be useful)
Greetings
Picture 8 shows the first double crochet — that’s all it is. Once you chain 3, you can just start making double crochets into the loop. Picture 7 just shows the first step of making a double crochet — yarning over once. To make a double crochet: yarn over once, insert hook in loop, pull up a loop, (yarn over, pull through 2 loops) twice.
Oh I see!
My issue was the double crochetting. I have not seen it yet, but thanks to your tutorial I am able to do it properly now. Thanks a bunch 🙂
Regards
I know you wrote this ages and ages ago, but I’m a new hooker, and just did a search for “how to crochet the magic circle for beginners.” Yours was the first site to pop up, and I’m SO happy that it did because it’s brilliant. Thank you so much. I’ve tried being taught in person and by video and it just hasn’t helped like this!! 😀
–Chris
Thanks so much, Chris! I have a better time learning from photo tutorials rather than video, and I’m glad this is helpful!
Hi I just found this as I was refreshing myself on the magic ring, which my grandmother taught me years ago. Problem is, I keep double crocheting the rings where the top and the bottom twist halfway around. Any clue what I’m doing wrong?
Ooo. Hmm. I have no idea how you might be doing this and I’ve never encountered that. Are you making sure to work around all of the yarn that makes up the loop? So long as you work into the center of the ring, around both strands of yarn, you should be okay. Any way you can send a pic?
This is absolutely easy to understand. May I link to it?
Absolutely!
Thank you so much! I’ve looked at a few other tutorials for magic circle and just couldn’t get it. Your tutorial was so easy to follow and I can finally make a magic circle!
Thank you so much for your easy to follow instructions! This has to be the easiest to follow tutorial I’ve used. 🙂 Am very grateful! Katina
Thank you so much… for some reason I found this easier to follow than some of the other ones with words. Do you have any tips for me because for some reason I want a 72 stitch hat and wind up adding a stitch almost every row… can you tell me what I’m doing wrong…
as I’m getting a bit discouraged because I had to pull the hat apart twice when I was more than halfway through. Any hints would be greatly appreciated..Thanks again!
The most common cause of the extra stitch is not counting your starting chain as a stitch! Like, if you are doing rounds of double crochet, you start each round with a chain 3 — that counts as your first dc. I would do a count after every round to try and pinpoint the problem! Make sure to join your rounds in the top of the first starting chain.