Preventing Vertical Slanting while Crocheting in the Round
Similar issues had been brought up before and I provided a few tricks, but today I discovered one that used basic single crochet. It is probably common knowledge, but I have never, EVER seen it covered in any beginnerâs crochet tutorial that Iâve read and I am a little annoyed that I didnât know about this sooner. Credit goes to this post on Crochetville for the fix.
Basically, to get that vertical stripe effect without the stitches slanting, do all your single crochets in the front loop only. Using tighter stitches help, tooâthe example photo here is kinda loose and I had to do some tugging to get it to look as straight as possible.
I am aware that some people crochet like this by default and for the longest time I couldnât figure out how they achieved perfect vertical columns (even just tightening my stitches didnât quite work). Itâs not quite as effective when youâre making something completely flat like a round potholder, though. If anyone has a solution for those, let me know!
Nice tip!







