Help - how to crochet a ball

[travail]

I am having a difficult time trying to Crochet a Ball for a project. I have watched many videos - not sure what I'm doing wrong. firing 

 

Edited November 11, 2022 by travail

[Granny Square]

Hi Travail, welcome to the 'ville!  

Do you have a way to post a photo of what your not-ball looks like?  If you are making a post, at the bottom left of the text box it says to drag pdf, jpg, jpeg, gif, or png files to that spot to attach.

Are you following a pattern or winging it?  There are very specific rules that you need to follow when working center-out in the round (that don't apply working flat in rows, it involves obeying they laws of geometry, pi and all that), and if you don't diligently follow these rules you are guaranteed to mess up.  

It helps to know more details do diagnose what you may be doing wrong.  

[NCcountrygal]

3 hours ago, travail said:

I am having a difficult time trying to Crochet a Ball for a project. I have watched many videos - not sure what I'm doing wrong. firing 

 

Check these instructions. Hopefully that’ll help

https://www.supergurumi.com/crochet-shapes-crochet-balls-and-spheres

[NCcountrygal]

[travail]

18 hours ago, Granny Square said:

Hi Travail, welcome to the 'ville!  

Do you have a way to post a photo of what your not-ball looks like?  If you are making a post, at the bottom left of the text box it says to drag pdf, jpg, jpeg, gif, or png files to that spot to attach.

Are you following a pattern or winging it?  There are very specific rules that you need to follow when working center-out in the round (that don't apply working flat in rows, it involves obeying they laws of geometry, pi and all that), and if you don't diligently follow these rules you are guaranteed to mess up.  

It helps to know more details do diagnose what you may be doing wrong.  

 I've been trying to create a small octopus. I made the one on the left using a pattern, but then I wanted to double the size. So, for the octopus on the right, I winged it and tried to double the size but it didn't come out to the ball shaped I desired. I attached the photo below, I appreciate any advice you may have. Thank you!

[Granny Square]

Ah, thanks for the photo.  The one with eyes has a lot of character not being a perfect sphere, but I think the problem is there are not enough rows worked 'even' (not increasing) in the middle, just guessing it looks like 4 rounds worked even, which is probably the same amount of rounds as the little ball.  

The bigger the ball, more rows need to be in the circles top and bottom (which you have) but also more rows need to be in the middle worked even.  It looks like both the little and big ball both have about 4 rows worked even, but the big ball probably could use twice that many (give or take). 

edit - I typed the above before reading the link that NCcountrygal gave in her post, that fills in the details of what I was describing above - how to get all the proportions right when designing your own sphere of any size.

 

 

Edited November 12, 2022 by Granny Square

[Ellie 13]

I think the bigger one looks OK for an octopus. I think their heads are more balloon shaped anyway. Try putting the tentacles on and see what it looks like.

Ellie 13