How to Crochet Spirals

One of the plans Heidi and I have for this blog is to share a few tips and tricks of the trade.  Even though we ourselves are still pretty new at this, we are super excited to share what we have learned.

A super fun technique, that is one of my favorites, it the Spiral or Curly-Que.  I use it for the tops of my pumpkin hats:

My strawberry design sports a couple:

And I even use them to "Funk-ti-fy" some of my school spirit hats as tassels:

Here's how you do it:

Step #1:  You can use any size of hook.  The bigger the hook, the thicker the spiral and visa versa.  With your chosen hook make a chain the length you want your spiral to be.

Step #2:  Now, you will turn and in the second chain from the hook make two single crochets.

Step #3:  Do 2 sc in every chain all the way down.  Is it curling?  It should!

There you go!  Now don't be afraid of playing with it!  Go over it again with a different color and make some edging if you want like my school spirit hat above.  Or maybe try it with a larger stitch.  It's all up to you!  Now go have fun!!

Comment Fun:  All you crocheters out there, what is the cutest or funnest way you have used the spiral technique?  Leave a comment and/ or a link with some pictures!