You might be able to fill in the scratch with something like nail polish or air dry clay then sand it smooth. Resin would be good but can be expensive.
or you could just sand down the edge of the scratch so it doesn't catch the yarn, as a temporary measure til you can replace it. what's a new on cost, three bucks? frankly not worth the repair imo. a nice laminated wood one, i'd repair, but aluminum... toss it in the recycling and hit up walmart for another one, it's cheaper than a cup of starbucks.
Yeah, I was going to say that it's probably literally cheaper to replace it than to try and repair it. Especially since trying to sand down metal is tedious.
Dunno if sewing on patches counts, but here's one I just finished that I thought was relatable: Spoiler
i realized i never posted this here, and i've started using it as my icon on discord so it seemed like a good moment to offer you all an egg in these trying times: my best friend has a book of patterns for little felt food plushes, and i made egg friend! it's very simple but i was proud of how cute the face turned out, considering my extremely rudimentary embroidery skills.
So I've got this thing: Spoiler: Patch in progress! (The white border is just so I remember where the edges are; I'll put in proper edging later.) What I need help with: what kind of background should I put in to not take away from the main focal point? I was originally thinking stormy seascape, but now I'm doubting myself.
i crocheted a stuffed dog for my boyfriend! i've made 3d/amigurumi stuff before, but nothing this complicated. it was really fun! i want to crochet more stuffed animals! (pay no attention to the ear that changes dye lots halfway down. i ran out of brown yarn and had to get more, but i couldn't find the same dye lot... luckily boyfriend is mildly color blind so i'm pretty sure he won't notice.)
OH THAT IS SO CUTE I also like the colorshift the doggo I live with has a couple of gradient-style ones so it seems really fitting aaaaaa
So i am working on my 3rd crochet project ever and I have...questions ftr I made a very basic rag rug and then a plushie hammock, and this pattern I'm working on now uses mostly double crochet, which I'm still sort of wrapping my head around. I got one of those big color changing balls & it came with a pattern that I thought...was a scarf pattern. It was not. It was a blanket pattern. So I did my best to reduce the width by a third but it's been a lot of trial and error. start is the big yellow stripe. you can see at the bottom right where the edge is basically flat until halfway thru the red stripe, because the pattern said to do 3 chains before turning on each side, but that resulted in one side being wavy and one side being flat. I don't entirely understand why, but I started adding 2 extra chains on the bottom edge to make it symmetrical. (I was way too far in to go back and start over, i would have lost my will to continue...) I'm fairly certain this is the "right" side but tbh I still don't have enough experience to tell by looking at it. I'm also running into an issue where I'm not really sure how to hold the piece while working on it? I've been working with the "right" side facing me, which is easy going from right to left because I'm right-handed, but going back the other way throws me off a bit and always feels awkward. last is that I'm still sort of puzzling over whether or not I'm grabbing the correct part of the double stitch to add on the next layer, or if it doesn't matter too much as long as I'm consistent about it. I can probably scan the pattern and post it if people want.
... are you crocheting left to right for some rows? i have never heard of that, is that a thing? i've only ever seen people flip a piece over after each row-- that's what "turn" means on a pattern-- or crochet in the round (so one side is always facing you, but you're still only going right to left.)
Tbh I taught myself with various websites and youtube videos so I've kind of been. winging it. and none of the tutorials I followed ever explained that at all, so. whoops. a lot of things suddenly make sense now!
Finally something I can help with!! I've never tried explain not in person, so here goes. Like hyrax said, you should always be going right to left. Unless you're doing cabling or something, crochet doesn't necessarily have a right side that you can see. I usually do the chain and then turn, because then chain adds a bit of flexibility. They say to chain 3 for double crochet because you need to be at the right height to start. Doing single crochet, you chain one at the end of ever round so you start at the top of the stitch, kinda Personally, my chains are loose while everything else tends to be tight and I don't like the way the chains make little holes on the side. That's what created the wavy bit on yours. So I only chain 2 and it looks better imo. The chains should be alternating sides since you should be flipping it back and forth :) For holding the fabric, you'll want to do whatever feels most comfortable for you. I'll try to get a pic for how I hold it later. For now, I hold the fabric I'm working with my left thumb and middle/ring fingers. I have the yarn I'm working looped over my index finger, which I leave sticking out, and looped around my pinky for tension. My right hand holds the hook. You're supposed to hold it like a pencil but I was never held a pencil right, so I just kinda grab it in a way that's comfortable for me. For double crochet... The top of the stitch could look exactly the same as the top of a single crochet stitch. The top should make a V and you want to always go under that V with just the V I top of the hook and everything else underneath. There's also a V in the side of the stitch that if you go through will produce the same result, so it depends on which is easier for you to see. And just in case, for double crochet the way I think about it is 1) get a second loop on the hook (yarn over) 2) go through the V and grab (yarn over) the new yarn and come back. Now you have three loops on the hook. 3) grab (yarn over) the yarn and pull through two loops. Back to two loops on on hook. 4) repeat 3 but now you're back to one loop so you can start again. From what I can see, most of your stitches look like they should! (Triple and quadruple crochet just ups the number of times you do steps 1 and 3, but they're basically the same) I can do a picture or video tutorial if you think it would help
Thanks to the advice I'm actually going much faster! I was averaging about 1 stripe/day and now I'm getting about 2.5 :>
