Hello, fellow crochet enthusiasts! Picture this: You’re merrily crocheting along, everything’s perfectly circular, and then, out of nowhere, you start noticing those familiar angles creeping in. You count your stitches like a detective examining a crime scene, only to find the dreaded six corners staring back at you. While hexagons are fantastic shapes in their own right, sometimes you just want to go round and round without accidentally falling into the six-sided abyss. Read on to learn how to avoid the hexagon shape while crocheting in the round.
Steps to Avoid the Hexagon Shape While Crocheting in the Round:
To begin your circular project, you will just start how you normally would whether it be the infamous “Magic Circle” or the chain 4 then slip stitch into the 1st chain to start working in the round. This part is entirely up to you, but if you are brand new to crochet, I would suggest starting by chaining 4 then slip stitching into the 1st stitch method. However, in my examples above, I did start with a magic circle for both shapes.
Side note here – – > The first 3 rounds will be worked as usual. The change in where we increase will happen starting with round 4. Nevertheless, I will keep showing all of the steps to get through 8 rounds.
Summary
How we avoid the hexagon shape is due to where we are placing the increases in each round. Typically, (and this happens a lot), if you start with the single crochets in the beginning stitches followed by the increase last and you keep doing this for every round, that is when you are bound to end up with the dreadful hexagonal shape. The difference between having the hexagon shape and the circle shape happens due to alternating where we are placing the increases for each round.
Hope this tutorial was helpful.
Another great way to avoid the hexagon while crocheting in the round is to crochet in a continuous round. See my step-by-step tutorial on how to crochet in a continuous round here.
Happy Crocheting!
