Magic Ring
Mister DomesticThe magic ring is a popular way to start projects like crocheted amigurumi toys and top-down hats. It allows for the project to be started at the center without leaving a hole. In this video, Mister Domestic demonstrates how to create a magic ring.
The magic ring can be called many different names:
- Magic Circle
- Disappearing Loop
- Magic Loop
No matter what you call it, it’s the perfect start to your next crocheted amigurumi project. Mister Domestic begins with approximately 12 inches of a yarn tail. He wraps the tail around two fingers, making an X. The crochet hook goes under the yarn and the first strand of yarn is caught with the hook. He brings the hook back through and creates a twist in order to lock the yarn in place.
With the Magic Ring complete, he chains one stitch and then works six single crochet stitches into the ring, making sure to go under both the yarn that makes up the ring and the yarn tail. Once the stitches are made, he pulls on the yarn tail to close the ring. By closing the ring, the stitches come together to form a circle. This first round is finished by slip stitching into the first stitch to join. Mister Domestic notes that there is no gap at the center. This makes it perfect for any crochet amigurumi that starts at the center.
Hey everyone, Matthew of Mister Domestic, to share with you a really quick crochet tutorial of how to make a magic ring. It took me a couple of years before I took the energy to find out how to create it. And really, if I would've known earlier, then my crochet projects would have been snatched even more in the very beginning. So let's learn this super versatile way to start the center of a block, which is called a magic ring. So with the magic ring, I am going to start about 12 inches and then I will wrap it around my first two fingers.
So like this over, under and over again, like so. And then I'm going to go under the front one, grab the one in the back, and twist to essentially start my first loop. I'm going to yarn over, pull through, ta-da! And what you do with the magic ring will determine how many you need to add. So for a single crochet, I'll go ahead and add six because that is the standard in a circle.
So I'll just add six single crochet to show you. One, two, and as you can see I'm going over both of these cause this one I'm going to pull to tighten it in a bit. So I've done two, I just need four more, three, four, five, and this is the final one. And so now, in order to make this magic happen, I'm going to pull on this, the tail, and it's going to close it up, close it up, like so. There's no gap like when you do the chain four center, and then you are going to go into the top of the first double crochet, which isn't that first loop, it's this first V right here we're going to go into.
And just slip stitch it. So I'm going to go into the top two, yarn over, pull through, pull through, and just chain one to get the next road started and we have done the magic ring. I use single crochet in here, but as you can see, when you get up super duper close, that there is no gap in that center. So this is definitely a next level, kind of beginning to any of your basic granny square, circle, hexagon, any other kind of shape where you start in the center crochet block. So stick with me for some more lessons on crochet, can't wait to see you in the next lesson.
Apparently nothing has been done with this video or to create a new & better one since 2021. It's now spring of 2024 and evidently this is the same horrible video and I still have no idea how to make a magic circle. Sucks that I PAID for this and I'm heading over to FREE YOUTUBE to find someone to teach me how to make the magic ring!!!!! EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTING!!!!!
Please redo this video
Really disappointed. I bought a year membership in hopes that o would be able to master crochet techniques like the magic ring, and I’ve been following this video repeatedly over the past hour and have ended up with nothing more than a bunch of twists in my yarn. The same comment has been made since 2021, and clearly customer service is not a priority for this platform…cancelling my membership and won’t recommend this site to anyone.
really bad video he mostly starts halfway on camera and then his hands are in the way and THEN he uses terms that a beginner wouldnt know what he was talking about. smh.
I have the same comments as the others. The video needs more clarity. He needs to slow down and explain which yarn to use. I will also need to search YouTube.
I have the same comment as Cindy from December 2021. The most important part of the process is unable to be seen because he moves his work to the bottom and off screen. Not a helpful video at all. And it’s pretty obvious that Creative Crochet Corner hasn’t been responsive to the first comment that mentioned the issue since it’s 6+ months later and no new video is posted.
This video is not as helpful as most of your videos are for me. Firstly the dark yarn is so hard to see, and secondly, the crutial part that you need to see goes off camera at the bottom of the screen. He also doesn't tell you which piece of yarn you are pulling through. I am disappointed with this. Maybe it's just me, but I'm going to have to go to YouTube to see if I can find better.
When reading patterns to create Amigurumi characters how do i read the Row instructions that are in parentheses . Can someone help me.