{"id":84,"date":"2009-01-26T01:24:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T01:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crochetuncut.com\/wp\/?p=84"},"modified":"2009-01-26T01:24:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T01:24:41","slug":"how-do-i-make-turning-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crochetuncut.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"How do I make turning chains?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 When ever I crochet, my turning chains are a mess &#8211; sometimes just on one end.\u00a0 What am I doing wrong?\u00a0 When it says chain two and turn, do I take the hook out and reposition it, turn the work around but not reposition the hook or perhaps click MY heels three times and turn around?\u00a0 Nothing I do fixes it. (L. Harris)<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> The turning chain should be made without removing the hook from the work (or yourself from your chair). At the end of a row, simply continue to work, making the designated number of chain loops.\u00a0 Then just turn the work backwards, so you are looking at what was the \u201cwrong\u201d side of the row just finished.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Your chains will look neater if:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You make them fairly loosely, corresponding to the size of the loops evident in your other stitches.<\/li>\n<li>You always turn the work in the same direction.\u00a0 If you find that the working yarn is looped over the work after your turn, simple pass the working yarn around the hook in the opposite direction so it is correctly positioned at the back of the work and ready for the next stitch.\u00a0 Be careful not to wind the working yarn around and around the chain, but carry it in the \u201cunwinding\u201d direction for your work.\u00a0 This will vary for left and right handed crocheters, and depending on the direction of the turn you choose to do.<\/li>\n<li>Remember to follow the designer\u2019s instructions as to whether you will then work into the first stitch of the new row, or count your chain as the first stitch and work into the second.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It\u2019s also possible to make turns without chains and several good video demonstrations exist online.\u00a0 One can easily do a Google search for \u201ccrochet chainless turn how to\u201d and then watch video demonstrations of the various methods. A caveat: the quality varies greatly from one demonstration to another and it\u2019s best to watch several and glean the useful information from each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 When ever I crochet, my turning chains are a mess &#8211; sometimes just on one end.\u00a0 What am I doing wrong?\u00a0 When it says chain two and turn, do I take the hook out and reposition it, turn the&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/crochetuncut.com\/?p=84\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[128,129],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochetqna","tag-turn","tag-turning-chain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crochetuncut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crochetuncut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crochetuncut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crochetuncut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crochetuncut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crochetuncut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crochetuncut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crochetuncut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crochetuncut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}