Joining three or more peices

Joining three or more pieces is very useful for making fingers, the tips of wings, etc. It cuts a lot of time sewing, since you’re just crocheting around the pieces.

For the first example, I’ll be joining 3 pieces. For the sake of the tutorial, all of the pieces are in different colours so you can see what I’m doing.

Joining three pieces:

Piece A is grey.
Piece B is yellow.
Piece C is white.

Pieces A&B:
1. magic ring 6 (6)
2. inc x 6 (12)
3. Sc around (12)
Fasten off. I like to leave a bit of a tail.

Piece C:
1. magic ring 6 (6)
2. inc x 6 (12)
3. Sc around (12)
Do not fasten off.

At this point, the pattern may say something like this:
”4. Sc 6 on piece C. Join to piece B & sc 6. Join to piece A & sc 12. Join to piece B & sc 6. Join to piece C & sc 6. (36)
So you’d make 6 single crochet stitches on piece C (the piece you're still attached to - the white piece in the example).
Next, you’d insert your crochet hook into piece B (the stitch to the left of where you fastened off - the yellow piece in the example) & single crochet in that stitch & the next 5 stitches on that piece. You’ll have 6 single crochets on piece B in total.

Since piece B is the middle piece, you need to leave the other half of the stitches on it unworked for now. There are 12 stitches in the example, so 6 would be worked in, and the other 6 would be left unworked for now.

Next, insert your hook into piece A (the stitch to the left of where you fastened off - the grey piece in the example) & single crochet in all of the 12 stitches.

Now, you need to work into piece B again. Since it’s the middle piece & only 6 of the 12 stitches were worked into - insert your hook in the seventh stitch. Single crochet in that stitch & the next 5 stitches.

Insert your hook into the seventh stitch from piece C & single crochet in that stitch & the remaining 5 stitches.

You will end up with 36 stitches in total (6 in C, 6 in B, 12 around A, 6 in B, 6 in A).

Looking at the piece, you will notice that there will be gaps between the pieces where they were joined. The tails left over from fastening off pieces A&B can be used to sew these gaps closed.

Joining four (or more) pieces:

Piece A: brown
Piece B: grey
Piece C: yellow
Piece D: white

Pieces A,B&C:
1. magic ring 6 (6)
2. inc x 6 (12)
3. Sc around (12)
Fasten off. I like to leave a bit of a tail.

Piece D:
1. magic ring 6 (6)
2. inc x 6 (12)
3. Sc around (12)
Do not fasten off.

At this point, the pattern may say something like this:
”4. Sc 6 on piece D. Join to piece C & sc 6. Join to piece B & sc 6. Join to piece A & sc 12. Join to piece B & sc 6. Join to piece C & sc 6. Join to piece D & sc 6 (48)

To start, you would make 6 single crochet stitches on piece D (the piece you're still attached to - the white piece in the example).
Next, you’d insert your crochet hook into piece C (the stitch to the left of where you fastened off - the yellow piece in the example) & single crochet in that stitch & the next 5 stitches on that piece. You’ll have 6 single crochets on piece C in total.

Since there are 4 pieces in this example - one piece on each end & two pieces in the middle - you will only work in half of the stitches on both piece C & piece B.

Next, you’d insert your crochet hook into piece B (the stitch to the left of where you fastened off - the grey piece in the example) & single crochet in that stitch & the next 5 stitches on that piece. You’ll have 6 single crochets on piece B in total.

Next, insert your hook into piece A (the stitch to the left of where you fastened off - the brown piece in the example) & single crochet in all of the 12 stitches.

Now, you need to work into piece B again. Since it’s one of the two middle pieces & only 6 of the 12 stitches were worked into - insert your hook in the seventh stitch. Single crochet in that stitch & the next 5 stitches.

Next, insert your hook into the seventh stitch on piece C (also one of the two middle pieces) & single crochet in that stitch & the next 5 stitches.

Finally, insert your hook into the seventh stitch from piece D & single crochet in that stitch & the remaining 5 stitches.

You will end up with 48 single crochet stitches in total (6 in D, 6 in C, 6 in B, 12 around A, 6 in C, 6 in B, 6 in A).