Crochet Help for the Hapless Knitter-N00b
Hi all, so I've been watching this community for a long time, but hadn't ever posted. I'm a relatively new knitter, and I taught myself to crochet this past weekend. This is my starter project (also a ravelry link to the project):
I didn't actually follow the pattern, sadly, so for all I know, I did things completely wrong, but I wanted to do the points as cones and not sew two flats together. I'm partially just throwing this in so there's a picture (post looks naked without it!) but also in case there's something obviously wrong about my technique that I'm missing. But while I'm talking about the star--anyone know a way to photograph a glow-in-the-dark item? My camera just doesn't pick him up.
Anyhow, my pressing problem is that I am now attempting the Katamari pattern for the friend who gifted me with the crochet hooks. Thing is, I got to the point where you start doing straight sc's all around on the first hemisphere and... it's flat. I mean, there is barely any curvature to the thing at all, and really only if I squish the fabric and try to push it to have a little curvature. Two of these would have made a flying saucer, not a ball :( It looked like a brightly colored yarny trivet and in despair it has been frogged (probably should have taken a picture, but I was in quite a bit of despair and didn't think of it). What did I do wrong?!
I'm reading the pattern as magic looping 6 stitches on, sc2 all around and step up to the next row, sc1 and sc2 all around, step up, etc. etc. etc. Am I just reading the thing wrong? Am I not supposed to step the row up and slip-stitch it together so it just goes round and round like the cones on my star? Will that even make a difference? The problem with learning to crochet when you do not know anyone who crochets is that you don't have someone who can run to locally to just point out your mistakes to you so you don't have to feel dumb on the intarwubz for all the world to see :( Please help!
I didn't actually follow the pattern, sadly, so for all I know, I did things completely wrong, but I wanted to do the points as cones and not sew two flats together. I'm partially just throwing this in so there's a picture (post looks naked without it!) but also in case there's something obviously wrong about my technique that I'm missing. But while I'm talking about the star--anyone know a way to photograph a glow-in-the-dark item? My camera just doesn't pick him up.
Anyhow, my pressing problem is that I am now attempting the Katamari pattern for the friend who gifted me with the crochet hooks. Thing is, I got to the point where you start doing straight sc's all around on the first hemisphere and... it's flat. I mean, there is barely any curvature to the thing at all, and really only if I squish the fabric and try to push it to have a little curvature. Two of these would have made a flying saucer, not a ball :( It looked like a brightly colored yarny trivet and in despair it has been frogged (probably should have taken a picture, but I was in quite a bit of despair and didn't think of it). What did I do wrong?!
I'm reading the pattern as magic looping 6 stitches on, sc2 all around and step up to the next row, sc1 and sc2 all around, step up, etc. etc. etc. Am I just reading the thing wrong? Am I not supposed to step the row up and slip-stitch it together so it just goes round and round like the cones on my star? Will that even make a difference? The problem with learning to crochet when you do not know anyone who crochets is that you don't have someone who can run to locally to just point out your mistakes to you so you don't have to feel dumb on the intarwubz for all the world to see :( Please help!