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[aphrael]

Ok, this has been bugging me for a while and I just have to ask someone about it. Why do some amigurumi pattern makers feel it is necessary to join each round with a slipstitch? Whenever I follow the pattern's directions and do this, it never looks good. You can see where the slipstitch is on each round, and it looks ugly. Same with ch1 at the

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[puckyducky]

I only slipstitch when there's a lot of color changes, so they come out equal, when it's all one colour, I just keep going around without bothering. /five cents

[aphrael]

Thanks. I think I won't bother - I just had to undo half of a project I was working on because it just looked terrible.

[midorable]

I'm with you, I like the spiral and it looks just fine and doesn't confuse that the slip stitch as an extra stitch. Alot of the Japanese patterns are famous for that.

[masakiti]

As far as I know, there are two different techniques of crocheting in rounds.
The first one goes in spirals & needs no joining, another one needs joining rounds:

[masakiti]

damn, the picture doesn't show :-D
it's here anyway:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yC9ySJTXW3I/SLl7SjT7o-I/AAAAAAAABAQ/MtS3J5H3Uc0/s1600-h/roundsVSspiral.jpg

[aphrael]

Yeah, spiral just looks SO much better, imo. I don't know why you'd go with rounds. Thanks for the info!

[beccastareyes]

Well, I find slip stitching easier in some projects because it lets me see how far along a 'row' I am. I don't normally do it for amigurumi, but I will for hats or something.

[chiwaluv]

I am an amigurumi pattern designer, and I never slip stitch or ch-1 turn , (at the end of a round). Amigurumi is worked in "rounds" of continued spirals, slip stitching or ch-1 turn at the end of the round is not necessary, even when you change colors.
If you have purchased a pattern that asks you to do this, perhaps the designer is not familiar with amigurumi techniques enough to be printing out patterns. The standard Crochet techniques teach you to use them in patterns....not Amigurumi. This is what sets Amigurumi apart from traditional crochet.

Same is true for the term "row"....amigurumi term is "round" round being a continuous circle of stitches.

There are however times in my patterns I will have you slip stitch, it is for shaping the item ONLY, it has nothing to do with joining rows.

Hope this helps....
Kind regards
Chiwaluv Amigurumi Critters

:D

[zuperdzigh]

I'm an amateur pattern maker, and I'm one of those who join each round.
I have once tried making the same amigurumi with both techniques, and well there's almost no difference with the final shape, except the "ugly slip stitch lines".

but I do like joining rounds than using the spiral techniques, because it makes it easier to count the SCs and rows, especially when I need to unravel some rows (stitch marker doesn't help). I'm suck at counting :P

i learned amigurumi mostly from japanesse book, and they tend to use joining round technique.
yes that "line" won't looked good, and it's your choice to use it or not.