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Hello all. New to site and I've got an issue!!! I just started a piece last week. I'm using the afghan stitch and my piece is rolling up on itself. I only have about 16 rows. I'm not pulling on my yarn so I don't see how it can be too tight unless my yarn is too think for the hook. I'm using an 8mm hook with worsted weight red heart yarn. Thanks for advice. <img src="/images/graemlins/wall.gif" alt="" />

It is either that the yarn is too thick for the hook, or the hook is too small for what you are trying to do. You may have to rip it out and try a bigger hook.

That's an H hook and that's appropriate for worsted weight yarn.

The afghan stitch will roll. You will need to block the piece when you are finished in order for it to lay flat.

Tunisian crochet in the simple stitch will curl. You can use combinations to stop that curl making an edging as you go if you are doing something like an afghan. You can use the simple stitch and combine it with the purl or reverse stitch.

Otherwise you have to block the piece or do some kind of other edging around the piece to stop the curl.

The reason it curls is just like the reason that a knitted stockinette stitch curls, all the stitches are to one side thus making the other side all one type of weave. This causes the piece to curl. When you use other tunisian stitches along with the tunisian simple stitch then this helps eliminate that curl by off setting the way the yarn lays with the new stitch.

If you are doing blocks in tunisian, when you attach most of the blocks the weight of the others will pull out much of the curl, but you will probably still have curl at the edges that you will need to fix.

If you use an edging when you are finished with the main afghan this will help control the curl
Darlene

Thanks everyone. Huge help. I will stick with what I have done and just edge when I finish. Thanks!!!