uh oh! Granny Squares!

[Fenhir Noble]

Ok, so I went over to another city to visit a friend, and her room mate showed me quickly how to make a granny square. Ok. I tried it out, but I have soooo much trouble everytime I start a new row. I chain 5, make a slip stitch. Then I have to chain 3 (first dc) then I dc in the ring. I make 3 dc, ch 2 then another 3 dc. In total, I should have 4 groups of 3 dc. Then I'd start the next row with ch 3, then dc in the 'in betweens' of two dc.
That's fine and dandy in theory, only my chain of three dosen't look like a dc, it ends up being all crooked. Even the first 3 chain after forming the ring is ugly and looks off. Here's pics.

(in to ilustrate, it ends up looking like this
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instead of
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here's the pic already.. I've circled the problematic areas.



and



don't mind the chem book that it was on... redface  

[Catcheen]

It's hard to tell from the picture, but in all honesty, the ch 3 rarely ever looks like a dc. It's just supposed to bring your work "up" to the next round if that makes sence.  

[Fenhir Noble]

ah... ok.... after I'm done a row, I make a sl st in one of the 3 ch right? Does it matter which one?  

[Catcheen]

Fenhir Noble

ah... ok.... after I'm done a row, I make a sl st in one of the 3 ch right? Does it matter which one?

The top one.  

[Fenhir Noble]

Ok. Thanks!
I've tried it again, and it dosen't look sooooo horrible.  

[Keiyla]

Only thing I can see is it doesn't look like your chain 3 is in the corner. When I was taught granny squares, I was shown to make the chain 3 in the corner, so that the chain 3 is sort of hidden by the follow up:

Row 2: ch3, 2dc, ch2, 3dc, then continue on in pattern.  

[Peppermint Elf]

I dunno. It looks perfectly fine to me. No one's ever gonna look that closely at your blanket. But if the largeness of it bothers you, why not make it a chain 2? sweatdrop  

[Fenhir Noble]

It's not the largeness that bothers me, it's the fact that the ch3 looks flimsy compared to the dc and it's at an angle... the ch3 ends up right on top of a post instead of in between like the rest of the dc.

And Keiyla, that's what I do....  

[Story From The Stars]

Mine do that too. There's really not much you can do about it.