The new granny blanket is of a circular variety!
You may have noticed I mentioned a new crochet blanket I was working on as part of my Nine Months Of Challenge. It is worked in beautiful pink and lilacs yarns from the Sublime Baby Cotton Kapok DK which was generously donated by Black Sheep Wools.
I started it at Christmas and it was all going swimmingly… until suddenly my increases didn’t add up. And I’ve spent most of the past week trying to figure out what I have done wrong. I cannot for the life of me see where the problem lies and having used this pattern before successfully I am at a total loss as to why I am in this pickle in the first place!
The pattern is from Crochet with Raymond and should be super simple. As it has no corners for increases, you make increases on certain rows. At this point in the blanket I should be increasing on every 4th row. I should also be increasing on every 3rd stitch in that 4th row. And it worked perfectly for the first increase in that repeating pattern, but now I am stuck…
I don’t know if you can see in this picture, but to finish this row I would end up with one too many stitches (3 together instead of 2 between each increase). If I add an extra stitch I end up with 85 stitches in that row, which is not divisible by 3 or 4 and so will (as far as I can tell) totally throw out my next increase row when I’d need to increase on every 3rd stitch again. Am I making sense?
My head hurts from trying to work out what I’ve done wrong…
Let me try and explain my thinking. My previous increase round had 64 stitches (following my increasing every 3rd stitch) and the previous row to that (before the increase) had 48 stitches. So by that working it should go as follows:
Previous increase round – start with 48 stitches. 48 divided by 3 is 16. So I will add 16 new stitches to the row. 48 + 16 = 64.
So far so good, right?
But then 64 divided by 3 is 21.3, which doesn’t work, hence my inability to finish the round.
It seems to me that whatever number of stitches I end up with on an increase round must end with a stitch count that is divisible by both 3 and 4 to make it all tally up correctly. So where have I gone wrong? And how do I fix this?
*Sigh* I feel like my head my explode if I think about this any further, so I’m throwing it out there… can anyone explain to me what I need to do to rectify this? I don’t think it’s as simple as just adding in a random stitch (or taking one out!)
I can’t wait to figure it out so that I can keep working on this blanket as it is looking really lovely, don’t you think?
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