My Adjustable Ring Tutorial: Featured in Yarn Can Make This! Newsletter

July 20th, 2008 · 7 Comments · About My Tutorials, Buzz

Part of my Magic Adjustable Ring Tutorial in Yarn Can Make This! Newsletter When Jennifer of Jaybird Designs e-mailed asking to include my adjustable ring tutorial as her favorite tip/trick in a newsletter she was guest authoring, I was flattered and my answer was, “Absolutely!” The adjustable ring is a method of beginning crochet in the round so that the starting tail can be used to pull the center hole tightly closed (or pulled to leave an opening of any size you want). I’m as thrilled about this technique now as I was the day I discovered it four years ago. I wanted to grab every crocheter I could find and say, “Do you know about this? You need to know about this!” And so I submitted it to the then online magazine (since turned online community), Crochet Me, and it was published in the December 2004/January 2005 issue. I titled it The Magic Adjustable Ring: A Better Way to Begin Crochet in the Round because to me, it really was magic, changing my whole outlook on crocheting anything that started as a circle.

Beginning of July 2008 Yarn Can Make This! Newsletter The newsletter Jennifer guest authored this month (July 2008) was Yarn Can Make This! from the web site YouCanMakeThis.com. Although the web site recently turned two years old, this was the first issue of Yarn Can Make This!, a newcomer in addition to their other two newsletters, You Can Make This! and You Can Sew This! If you’re a subscriber to the newsletter, I hope you enjoyed my adjustable ring tutorial! If you’re not (yet!), you can see the archived issue online.

Two other methods of forming a ring include joining a chain and crocheting into the first chain (see my tutorial). These have their uses, of course, but I hope some day all crocheters will have the adjustable ring in their repertoire. I include it in nearly every round pattern I design for publication, hoping the editor will have it illustrated for the the how-to section of the book.* I’m on a mission, folks! ;-)

*One of the places you can see the adjustable ring illustrated is in Crochet Me: Designs to Fuel the Crochet Revolution by Kim Werker (page 130). My design in that book is the Circle Rug, made of 60 circle motifs joined in a unique and sturdy fashion (page 125).

7 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Jennifer // Jul 21, 2008 at 7:59 am

    Thanks for letting us use it! The newsletter came out wonderful!!

  • 2 rebecca // Jul 25, 2008 at 5:32 pm

    oo neat. never heard of this newsletter before. thanks for the link!

  • 3 Sharon // Oct 8, 2008 at 9:25 pm

    I love the technique, but where does the remainder of the tail go? Thanks

  • 4 Bookmarks about Course // Oct 10, 2008 at 2:15 pm

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  • 5 alex // Aug 30, 2009 at 9:01 pm

    Fantastic technique! Thanks so much for sharing!!

    Not sure if you know this or not, but the link is no longer available on crochetme.com.

  • 6 taueret // Oct 27, 2009 at 3:29 am

    hi Donna- oh my gollygosh I love that. I am a knitter but that technique would totally work as a replacement for the appalling cast ons that we use to start a round thingy that involve long pointy sticks and lots of stabbing and swear words.

  • 7 Beth // Jan 23, 2010 at 3:01 pm

    Hi, I love your tutorial and like to pass it on to other people, but the pictures are not working anymore. Is the tutorial posted somewhere else too?

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