The Adjustable Rings

Adjustable Ring

Adjustable Ring
c2005 Sandra Petit, http://www.crochetcabana.com

The adjustable ring is used when working in the round. When I say "working in rounds" I am talking about where you start with a circle or ring in the middle and your piece grows outward, getting larger, until it is the size you need. You don't HAVE to use the adjustable ring when working in the round. You can choose to make a small foundation chain and join to make a circle. Either way works just fine.

Here is the picture tutorial on making an adjustable ring, copied from the working in the round tutorial on this site. I thought it would be eaiser to find if it had its own page. The yarn used in the tutorial is Red Heart Bikini, a very bright, colorful variegated yarn, fun to work with. Read from left to right, top to bottom.

Step one: First make a loop with your yarn. Doesn't matter which one is on top as long as the strand coming from the skein is there at the left. This is what you will be grabbing to make your stitch.

Insert hook in center of loop made. yarn over with the strand coming from your skein

pull through

Yarn over (different yarn), pull through to make your first chain

make two more chains (for a ch-3). You are bringing your stitch to height so if you normally do a ch-2 to get to the proper height for a double crochet, then just make one more chain here. This counts as the first dc.

Now you will make your second dc. Yarn over, insert hk into the center of the ring and complete a dc as normal

continue making dc, working around the loop which makes up your ring until you have 12 stitches including your beginning ch-3,

grab hold of the beginning strand, the one you placed behind the strand coming from the skein in step one

when you pull on that beginning strand it will close up the hole in the center. You can pull it as tightly as you want, or leave a hole. Your choice.

join your last dc to your beginning ch-2 or ch-3 with a slip stitch

Here's a view worked in variegated yarn