tunisian curling ?

[tweety256]

I am making a graphgan using the tunisian hook and the top and bottom are curling on me. I am only about 15 rows into the gan so I was wondering if the curling will straighten out as I work up the afghan or will I have to add a edging to make the curling stop?

[lhasaapsolady]

I always put a border on mine as tunisian always seems to curl no matter what.

[livedinalaska]

At point I had found an online tip of something that would help with the curling. Of course I can rarely find these links when I need them... but there are some things out there....

[livedinalaska]

I think it was that you grab the post from the back instead of the front and that keeps it from curling...

 

But truly, I have no idea right now...

 

Wow, I was a big help! I think I'm tired!

[tweety256]

Thank you now I know it is not just me This is my first tunisian gan

[Granny Square]

There were some hints, and links to more hints, here

http://www.crochetville.org/forum/showthread.php?t=37219&highlight=curling

[CLLinda]

They do curl and I am not sure why. The best thing to do is put a nice single crochet border around it and that seems to help out. Also, use a larger afghan hook than specified in the pattern. Say if it calls for a h, try an I or J. Go up two or three sizes. That also seems to help.

 

Good luck.

 

[tweety256]

They do curl and I am not sure why. The best thing to do is put a nice single crochet border around it and that seems to help out. Also, use a larger afghan hook than specified in the pattern. Say if it calls for a h, try an I or J. Go up two or three sizes. That also seems to help.

 

Good luck.

 

 

Thanks for the advice but I am not using a pattern per say. I created a graph using PC stich stoftware. but next time I will try a bigger hook.

 

There were some hints, and links to more hints, here

http://www.crochetville.org/forum/sh...hlight=curling

 

I will have to check out this sight later

[darski]

Kim Guzman is the person to go to for help with Tunisian.

 

http://www.crochetkim.com/classes/tunisian100206.html