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Summary: Expanding a crocheted circle is essential to make a flat coaster. Learn crochet expanding tricks with tips from an artisan in this free crochet video.
"Okay. Now we're getting ready to do is we're getting to start our next circle. We going to chain up to. Remember it's just the basic double crocheting, so that's the height of it. And then we're going to go into our next one. And what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to go ahead and do two in this first space. Then I'm going to go to the next one. And seeing that this is starting to, it's still a little bit square. It's not quite coming over. I'm going to do two again. Really just kind of follow it and eyeball it to see where it's landing for you. I'm going to go ahead and go to the next one. And I'm still going to do two. This one's really adding a whole lot of yarn to this outside circle. This is what is going to pull it out and lay it flat. And we're going to go to the next pole. And I think I'm going to go ahead and skip that one. So we should have the one, two. Two, two. One. And then we'll start with two again. Follow that pattern to the end and we'll see where we're at. We'll make sure we're laying flat after that point."
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