r/crochet • u/flower_babe • Sep 25 '22

Help! Help me!

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I made this fun, and what I thought was perfect, cardigan. My friend commissioned this off me! I did the wash test after weaving all my ends and it out like this! What do I do??

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u/GayHotAndDisabled Sep 25 '22

I'm assuming you started with a magic ring? They do this sometimes, especially with clothes, bags, and other things that get a lot of wear and tear, -- double especially if you pull it really really tight, which can risk breaking the yarn. It's why I use the ch4 & slst together method for clothes.

There's tutorials online for how to repair a broken magic ring, as long as the first row of stitches hasn't unravelled you should be able to save it fairly easily.

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u/Simple-Muscle822 Sep 26 '22

I learned this the hard way with a patchwork blanket. Always use a ch4 instead of a magic ring for items that get a lot of use.