crochet pumpkin gone mad - HELP!

[Blueberry]

I'll try to dig out my camera this evening

I'm a little confused by what you say you're doing. The only place you should have chains (other than the beginning) is the beginning of each round. So, you do your 6 sc into one chain, join with a slip stitch, and then chain one and do 2 sc into each sc from the previous round. Does that make sense? Then the next round, you join again, chain one, and alternate doing 1 sc into the sc of the round before or 2 sc into each sc of the round before.

CA

[Red Rock]

Thankyou CA_in_NC. I am continuing to problem solve this. Wish me luck??

[Duck on Wheels]

Sometimes needlework patterns aren't all that intelligible. You might want to drop by your friendly local yarn store and ask them to show you what you're doing wrong. As I understand it, the chain stitch is just the one loop to bring you up one round's breadth from the round you've just finished. And the ruffling might come from adding in too many stitches on a given round. Although ... You don't want this thing to be entirely flat either. It's supposed to be flat for a few rounds, then turn upwards and look bowl-shaped, then turn inwards again to close off the top. You want to add enough stitches to keep it growing flat at the bottom, then add fewer stitches for a couple rounds so it turns upwards, then reduce stitches to turn it inwards. Maybe you can even just work without the pattern, watch it grow and just make it grow in the shape you want row by row.

[Blueberry]

OK - this is what I have after 4 rounds. Not the best picture, but you get the idea And, of course, best of luck

CA

[Red Rock]

CA_in_NC- thankyou for your help! I really appreciate it very much. Something I noticed was I was not single crocheting in the first X number of single crochets before doing the double crochet through the rest of the circle.

Also, I have done many searches on the internet and ask.com to get help. I came across a video of someone actually doing this in video form. That was where i picked up the error of the single crochet when starting the next round. It is those single crochets that make the item become circular. It also helped actually watching someone do this.

Give me some time and I might have figured this out. I hope.

Once again, thankyoiu for your help.

Red Rock

[Tuckervill]

Can't wait to see the finished project!

Karen

[invsblwmn]

You ladies are a trip! I barely can sew a button back on much less make a pumpkin or anything else recognizeable with yarn. Very nice work!

[salsabike]

Once you get to Row 3--and you may already be doing this--they want you to do ONE single into a single, then TWO singles into the next single, then ONE again into the next single, then TWO..etc. So you don't do two singles into the single below every single time, but every other time.

If you are already doing that part right, sorry! Hard to tell via posts...

[Red Rock]

Salsa:

That was the mistake I figured out from the video. I have been reading the instructions pretty carefully as well. I am using row markers so I know where "start" begins otherwise I would never remember especially the way it looks now. That is why I am waiting this one out a bit.

Red Rock

[Brandi]

I hope we get to see a picture when you are done! This saga has me wanting to make one too. But I have never crocheted before! There are some great video's on utube for it though. There is one where a boy who is maybe 13 shows you how to make a hat! i couldn't believe it! He seemed like your every day average kid too. Like as soon as he was done showing you he would be out skate boarding with his buddies! Go figure!