Knit or chrochet?

[Willow Rosette]

Anyone here crochet or knit? I found this yarny kinda stuff at target and it is purple with tassles and thought ohhhh Ill knit my mom a scarf. Well I just learned not to long ago and I cant get the stuff to knit si I went back to crochet it which I have done since I was a child and I cant keep the darn sides straight like when knitting.

Someone please tell me the secret???????????

And then on top of that I bought this soft fuzzy yarn to crochet my mom a hat as well. And I thought How hard can it be to go around in circles? Well damn it is harder than I imagined. My first try it was so tight I could have put it on barbie. My second try I made the stitches as loose as I could get them and it still barely fit my cat.

What on earth am I doing wrong??

[*Rain*]

For the scarf, try making your turning chain one stitch fewer. If that doesn't make much difference you could always put an edging around the whole thing.

Are you following a pattern for the hat?

[Willow Rosette]

Well thats the problem is it is getting smaller and not bigger and cant keep a straight line. It kinda goes like this/ \ Ill try adding a stitch and seeing if that helps. For the hat I wasnt using a pattern cause silly me thought it would be easy and I can never read those things but Im going to get one today from walmart and pray it is making hats for dummies or something lmao

[Moon Flower]

If the scarf is getting smaller I can only imagine that you are either pulling tighter as you go and increasing the tension, or that you have lost a few stitches on the way.

Sometimes, when you get to the end of one row and turn it to begin the next, it is easy to loose a stitch in the turn.
So you have one stitch less every time, which would make it get thinner as you go.

Try counting the stitches of a few rows, see if you are loosing any.

As for the hat, unless I knew what type of style you are trying o do, I can't really guess what might be going wrong.

But good luck with it all, I hope you get it sorted out.

I can't knit at all, but I love to crochet. It's very relaxing in ront of the TV!

[halfwaynowhere]

i think i know what your problem is with the scarf, but i don't know how easy it will be to explain... when you do each row, skip the first stitch, but then at the end of the row, do an extra stitch in the chain where you turned last time...if that doesn't make sense, just count your stitches every row or so, and add extra stitches if you have to... i think i know which yarn stuff you are using, did it come from the dollar section at target? if its what i'm thinking of, it is hard to work with, but it looks really pretty as a scarf... as for the hat, if you are just doing a beanie, i can give you a quick little pattern... i just make a chain that will wrap around my head when stretched out all the way, then join with a slip stitch, chain 2, and single crochet around. join with the first stitch with a slip stitch, chain 2, turn, and repeat until its about 4 inches tall... then i start decreasing, skipping every 5th stitch or so, for a few rows, then skipping every 4, and then 3, and then every other one, until it closes... at that point you may need to rip out a few rows and try it again until it looks about right... i don't write down my patterns, so i don't know exactly what i did, i just made 2 hats like that last week... i start at the bottom, that way i know its gonna fit right... you wouldn't believe how many really narrow hats i ended up with when i was first starting out...

[Willow Rosette]

Half way that is a really good idea. If I cant get the pattern I want to work I will have to try that. Thank you.

I bought a pattern book yesterday but it doesnt have meanings to the two letter words. If anyone knows what these are please help :lol: I feel like such a dork trying to do this with out someone here to translate lmao but here they are.

sc
ch = chain?
slip st = slip stitch?
sp

OMG it is saying to ch 1, 2 sc in first sc, sc in next 2 sc, (2 sc in next sc, sc in next 2 sc) around; join with a slip st to first sc: 60 sc

Why cant they just say what they mean instead of abreviating it?

Thank everyone for helping

[Faery-Wings]

http://www.nexstitch.com/a_learn_to_crochet.html

For abbreviations.

VM, I went through all that too. Who thought it would be so hard? :lol:

[Willow Rosette]

Thanks a bunch. I eill sit down this weekend and give it a go. Ill let you know how it turns out.

[tweetykiss]

Here are pictures of the scarf I knitted for hubby last year:

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b139/tweetykiss/edited2.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b139/tweetykiss/edited1.jpg

Right now I am working on a Wishbone Cable sweater for him. I love cabling while knitting and I hope to go into Intarsia knitting.

I also crochet.

VM, how is your scarf going? Did you get it to knit? I can give you a very easy pattern. What I used on my hubby's scarf is very easy even though it looks elaborate.

Crochet is also very easy. I learned it just from watching a Susan Bates video that is one of the best or I might have never got it.