Newbie Tips

hi friends! I thought it might be fun to ask what advice you would give yourself as a beginner crocheter. esp since I’m new to it, I’d love to know what y’all would say :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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Definitely tension, hook size and yarn over vs yarn under(i now yarn under for everything I make) For amigurumi, it would be turning it to the right side (I didn’t discover for a long time, so many were on the wrong side :sweat_smile:) I also like using the invisible decrease instead of a regular decrease for everything :)

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For a long time I did only sc in the blo for everything… I didn’t know there were other stitches and that there were 2 loops I was supposed to work through. I’d tell myself to learn more stitches right at the beginning, like dc and hdc, and show myself the 2 loops. Once I made a hat that was only sc and there was like one round in the blo :sob:

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i had no idea there was a difference for yarn over/under :sob: I’m gonna have to keep a better eye on that. and I didn’t know there was an invisible decrease :eyes:

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I learned most of these things from yt and I think yarn under and inv dec makes amigurumi more round and better shaped

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i realized that after playing with stitches for a while!! I was doing the same thing haha. I thankfully noticed before I started my amigurumi!

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if you happen to have a good yt channel, I would love to know :heart_eyes:

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Idk I just search it up on yt

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making sure your amigurumi are flipped right side out. at least half of my projects are the wrong side out lol

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Same

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