Photo Tutorial: Seamless dc Join As You Go

Join as you go is a technique that I REALLY love and think every crocheter who makes motif blankets, cowls or hats worked flat or items that need to be joined should learn. You work your last row of the pattern, while joining it to the 1st row or to the final edge of another motif!

Seamless join as you go: lay your work so you have the two edges facing each other, and the stitches lined up, work your first st, *remove the loop from your hook, insert your hook into the 1st st of row 1, pick up the loop again, and pull it through, work your next dc as per the pattern* repeat until the end on your last stitch, pull the loop through the final stitch

work your first stitch or chains as per normal, and line up
the two rows you are joining

Remove you hook from the stitch and insert it into the
corresponding stitch on the row you're joining with

insert your hook back into the stitch you worked

pull the loop of the stitch through the stitch in the row
you're joining to

work your next stitch, then repeat the process of joining to
the corresponding st of the row your joining with

Once you finish your row, it will look like this!
As you can see there is a bit of a noticeable seamm
however when you turn it over the seam is completely hidden

One of these purple rows is our join, the other one is regular
crochet. I'm 95% positive the one on the left is the join row.

This technique will be used in my free Zigzag Cowl pattern, being published next week!