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I need help getting the right # of stitches.

Hi, I'm new here and I have been working on a baby booty for a couple of days now, but every time I get to the SC all the way around I am suppose to come out with 39 st and I am always getting the wrong amount of stitches. I believe I am putting the hook in the wrong hole right off the back. can you please explain to me where the "Working down the (opposite side of starting) ch make 2 hdc in (next ch)" and the "ss to join to (first sc)" would be located. I think I can get it if I knew exactly what to look for. Your's truly,

Ash

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mirjam

around I am supposed to come out with 39 st and I am always getting

I'm not much of a crocheter. Here are my guesses.

I think "ss to join" sounds like you're supposed to make a slip stitch through something to connect it to the first sc in order to join a round; at that point you aren't creating a new stitch, you're joining two loops with a single loop and effectively decreasing a stitch.

"make 2 hdc in (next ch)" sounds like you're supposed to make them either in or around a short section of chain or slip stitches, like a granny square. But it might be that each slip stitch in a chain of them is considered to be one "ch". If that is so, then first you've made a chain of slip stitches, then you work back down the chain that you just created. To do that you chain one, then make 2 hdc in the next slip stitch that your hook wasn't already in. That seems to make a fan shape.

=Tamar

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