📚 What you’ll learn
How to start projects worked in the round with an adjustable center (Magic Ring or Magic Circle).
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📋 Instructions
- Form a loop by wrapping the yarn around your fingers, leaving a 4–6” tail behind the working yarn. Pinch the loop where the yarn ends cross to keep it stable.
- Insert your hook from front to back through the loop.
- Grab the working yarn and pull a loop through.
- Chain 1 to secure the ring (this does not count as a stitch).
- When making stitches into the ring, insert your hook under both the loop and yarn tail.
- Example for single crochet: Insert hook into the ring, pull up a loop (2 loops on hook), yoh, pull through both loops. First sc completed.
🔑 Key tips
- The Magic Ring keeps the center of your round project tight, eliminating the small hole that can appear when chaining and joining.
🏋️ Practice
- Make a Magic Ring, work 6 sc into it, pull it closed, and identify the center, stitches, and tail.
🎯 Goal
You can create a Magic Ring, place stitches into it, and tighten its center securely.