What does wrong side in crochet mean

Well, RS equals right side and WS equals wrong side. If you cannot clearly see the tops of both loops then you are looking at the wrong side. The RS row is the first row of crochet, not including your chain. If your piece was started with a foundation chain, then the beginning tail of your piece will usually be on the bottom right when you are looking at the RS. Crocheting on the wrong side means you have turned your work.

Instead of working all stitches from the front, you will flip your work and create stitches on the back, or wrong side, of your work. This technique is often used in a blanket when you are crocheting back and forth in rows.

Ending on the wrong side means that you finish a row with the wrong side of the piece facing you before moving on to further instructions. This ensures that after you turn the piece for the next instructions, the right side will face you again.

Patterns that call for colorwork will have a side that looks better than the other. Pay attention to the right and wrong sides when you are creating a piece with colorwork.

Other stitches that require attention to the right or wrong side are those that are worked around the front or back post only, invisible decreases, and the puff stitch. Pay close attention to patterns that mention the right side in directions. The pattern creator intended that side to be used to create a particular final appearance for your project. Amigurumi is a style of crochet that creates small stuffed yarn creatures or objects.

Working under the back bumps of the chain is done only when you work into the chain. In this case, it's only on the first row. Hope this helps, Marty Miller. I suspected that might be the case but it's good to have confirmation. Thank you so very much!!

Remember, crochet is very user-friendly, and if you try something, but it doesn't work, you can always frog it and try something else.

I tried doing what I thought was right there is no explanation as to what that RS is and we just left off working in rounds Got to Row 20 where it says : With RS facing, sk next 2 sc on rnd I got lost. I can give you all of the directions if you need them but I am so puzzled as to what they mean by Right Side here. Thank you for any help you can give, I tried to find something from them online but couldn't and they don't show step by step, only the finished product.

Catherine Mesa. Before Row 13, you were probably working in Rounds, not Rows. When you work in Rounds, most of the time you don't turn your work at the end of the Round, so you're working on the Right Side of the work. So after you finish the last Round, don't turn.

Just follow the directions for Row 13 - and that's a Right Side Row. So all Odd numbered rows are Right Side rows. And, Round 12 probably has some unworked stitches in it - and when you finish Row 24, and get to Row 25, you join your yarn to the first unworked stitch on Round 12, but make sure it's on the RS of the work - in other words, after you finish Row 24, with is a Wrong Side Row, turn your work to start the next Row - Row 25, a Right Side Row, which starts at Round Also most of the time, the abbreviation RS is right by the first occurrence of a Right Side Row, so you can tell what's what.

Or, it'll say something in the notes to the pattern. Hope this helps and isn't too confusing! I have a question about a pattern for fingerless mittens with a flap.

When starting on the flap it says to work on the wrong side. Does that mean I literally turn the pattern wrong side out to attach the start of the flap and then create the flap? You don't necessarily have to turn the mittens inside out to work on the wrong side. Some of my students just crochet from the inside of the mittens.

However, it is usually easier to turn the mittens inside out. I'm assuming you're working the mittens in the round. If so, just make sure that you're working on the wrong side of the mittens, however you're doing it, and where-ever the wrong side is. I have completed row 1 and I am at a loss as what to do to start row 2?!? Help Please!! Do not turn. It seems that the directions want you to work 2 rows before you turn.

So after you finish with the first row, you have to drop your first yarn - MC, and then join the second yarn CC at the beginning of the first row, and work that.

Then drop CC, working the last yarn over on the last sc with the first yarn - MC, then ch 2 and turn. Then you work the first yarn -MC for one row, And I would imagine yarn CC for one row before turning just like you did for Rows 1 and 2.

Make sure you know how to change colors - when you do your last yarn over of the stitch with the old color, do that yarn over with the new color, and you're good to go. This is only when you are turning between color change rows. Hope this explains everything. This is the best answer in my opinion , and what I follow. I was looking for reassurance and found it.. I have a question. I am starting an afghan and have finished row 1.

What I need to know is to add the second row am I adding it to the initial base chain so the bottom of my row or the top where I have loops? Or do I have it backward but initial base chain is the top and the loops are the bottom. If you are working in rows, the foundation chain is at the bottom, and the tops of the stitches are at the top, and what you would work in to. So you just turn you rows, when you get to the end, like you're turning the pages of a book.

I have the right and the wrong side thing worked out, but I need help in where I would join the new color, is it on the right or left side as I am looking at it? Thanks for you help in advance. Probably on the right side of the row as you are looking at the Wrong side of the piece. In other words, you are on the Wrong Side, and you want to start a new color in the row you are about to crochet.

You start the color at the beginning of that row, which, after you turned and have the wrong side of the piece facing you, the beginning of the row will be on the right hand side. I am a beginner at crocheting. The pattern is labeled as easy. It states to chain I understand the direction except for the wrong side part. After I chain the do I flip it over to the back to be the wrong side or does it mean that since I'm working back in the other direction that this is considered the wrong side and when I get to the end to turn and change colors that side will be the right side?

After you make your chain, work into it as usual. That first row is the wrong side row. Finish it, turn, change colors if that's what's called for, and work into the second row. That, and the other even numbered rows are the Right Side rows. So in the pattern, probably all wrong side rows are odd numbers, right side rows are even numbered. Also, you might want to watch your "auto-correct". You've got some funny words in your post! This is because I just noticed that the bobble stitch is popping to the back side.

It appears to me that the pattern is incorrectly written when it says that the "Little Bobble Pattern" row 1 is the right side. I have researched this issue on the internet and one site said the bobble stitch is always done on the wrong side so that the bobble pops to the back which would be the right side.

I have not completed any other projects with a bobble stitch so this is a surprise to me now when the bobbles show on the wrong side. Are there any suggestions to fix this without re-doing all my work?

I just looked at the pattern, and the bobble stitch is worked on the Right side - because there is a "set up" row before you start working the bobble pattern - and that is an "extra" row at the beginning. So when you start the bobble pattern, it's really Row 2 of the whole pattern which is the Right Side , but Row 1 of the Bobble stitch pattern, which is the Right Side.

When you start patterns like this, it helps to read through the whole pattern before you start crocheting. If you did work the bobble stitch part with the set-up row, you have nothing to worry about. Your bobble stitches will be on the Right Side. I just looked at the pattern again - it seems that each part starts with a set-up row - so each part has an extra row, that's not counted in the row counts. And the first row is then really the second row. But they call it the first row, and that's the Right side.

I hope this doesn't confuse you too much! I understand how to tell the difference between the right side and wrong side, but the pattern I'm doing is a spike stitch. It looks the same regardless of the side you view. I rarely do patterns the specify a specific side. The pattern indicates row 2 is the right side.

My question is this: Does that mean all my even rows are the right side, regardless of where the tail from the chain is located? Sometimes, though, the pattern might tell you to not turn one row, or something else, and then the right side will change.

But the pattern should tell you this. Some crocheters say that the first row is always the right side. So the tail of the foundation chain would be on the left. But that's not correct. The right side is what the designer says is the right side. I am working on a Minnie mouse graphgan. I don't have the pattern just a picture graph. I started with c2c but it was starting out too big. So I decided to do hdc. I would like to know do I start changing colors for the graph on the odd row or the even row?

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