I was making Maggie the Owl pattern, and decided to join motives as I was making them, as I really don’t like sewing up. I saw a tutorial about joining African Flowers when the last round is double crochet(US). My pattern however has last round as single crochet (US). So here’s how I did that:
To start, I decided to make 2 sc’d into ch-1sp. So the 1st sc belongs to the previous side of the hexagon, and the second sc – to the next one. When I come to the corner, I do the first sc, then I draw a loop to start the second sc:
Then insert the hook top down into ch-1 space of the second hexagon that you want to join to, and grab the working yarn
Pull the yarn up through the ch-1 space of the second motive
And then through two loops on your hook – your sc/joining stitch is complete:
I did not want to have big holes, and my stitch count was perfect for this (11 sc per side of hexagon – 9 into dc’s of the previous round and 2 into the corner ch-1), so I joined every other sc. That means after first sc, sc 1, and join with next sc – also skipping on sc in the second motive.
Here’s one side finished
