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I decided to learn to crochet beyond the few basics that I knew. I found a baby layette pattern book at the thrift store and decided to try a baby blanket. The blanket is sort of like a granny square in that you crochet around a square. Starting with round 3 and all the remaining rounds, the pattern is:  Slip st in next dc and in next 2 chs, ch 3, turn. Does turn mean the next side around the square or turn the work completely around?

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Turn means to turn the work over, so that you're working on the "wrong" side.  Every crochet project has a "right" side and a "wrong" side.  It just means front and back.  The right side is usually the first row or round facing you.  The wrong side is the back of the first row or round.  Think about doing rows... when you get to the end of the row, you turn and work stitches in the opposite direction.  You're doing the same thing here.  Turn the work over and work in the opposite direction.

 

The purpose of this is because stitches have a natural slant.  If you're right handed, they slant to the right.  Taller stitches, like dc, have even more of a slant than smaller stitches, like sc.  When you turn the work over, it cancels out the slant.  If you don't turn, the slant becomes pronounced as the rounds grow.  Without turning, the square begins to look skewed or "wonky."

 

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^ What she said.  Turning also has the benefit of making both sides look the same/reversible.  

 

Also, another clue, is the chain 3, turn, while working with DC (US terms).  The chain 3 means you are bringing the yarn up to DC height to start a new row or round; if you were just turning the corner to work around the square it wouldn't have used this wording.  If for some reason the corner really did have a chain 3 in it, it might have said, "chain 3, turn 90° and continue working in pattern along the next side" or similar.

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