seamless + symmetrical

Today I’m going to demonstrate, step by step, a technique to achieve a seamless join when crocheting in the round.

This technique achieves an almost invisible join.

As you can see in the photo below you can see the placement of each join. It’s very unattractive!

Instead of ending each round in the traditional way,

ie: slip stitching into the top of the beginning 3 ch,

which produces ‘gaps’ and a visible join,

see, this is what I’m talking about, the photo below shows how it can turn ugly, quite quickly! yuk!

I‘ll show you how to produce a neat, invisible join.

Look at the photo below, it’s hard to tell were I ended or began each round.

It’s easy, so lets get started!

Ok, we have completed a round of crochet and we are really to join, as shown in the photo below.

Firstly, cut the yarn ensuring to leave a tail,

then remove your crochet hook from your work.

The large loop shown in the photo below was the loop that was on the crochet hook, expand the loop,

drawing the yarn through the stitch,

that’s it, pull the yarn all the way through, as shown in the photo below.

close up shown in the photo below.

Now, thread a tapestry needle,

and insert the tapestry needle under both loops of the stitch to the left of the beginning 3 ch, as shown in the photo below.

close up shown in the photo below.

Draw the yarn through as shown in the photo below.

Next, insert the tapestry needle in between the loops, from front to back, of the last stitch worked, as shown in the photo below,

draw the yarn through, as shown in the photo below.

close up shown in the photo below.

Adjust the tension to produce a perfect join, as shown in the photo below.

Lastly, turn over your work to the wrong side and weave in the end.

ta da! seamless + symmetrical!