How can I cleanly finish and starts rows, using single crochet, in my pokeballs? In my continued adventures in making pokeballs I have run into another issue that experimenting is not fixing. The balls are made just using single crochet (sc). Typically what I do for sc project row is something like this:


  
  Ch 1, sc in same stitch
  sc around
  skip last stitch in row and sl st into first sc of row
  


That works well for me and looks perfectly fine on something like a toilet paper octopus holder. However once the balls are stuffed in pushes that those stitches out creating a visible raised ridge on the outside.



I didn't find the instructions I was following, which are pretty much the same for all balls or spheres, clear on this matter.

So to try something different to see if I could avoid this I tried the following instead:


  
  Ch 1, skip 1, sc
  sc around
  sl st into first sc of row 
  


This fixed the issue I am describing but the row ends also biased (instead of forming a straight vertical line every row moved over one stitch). Some people might not notice this - but I do!

How else could I be doing me sc in a sphere or ball so that I clean relatively flat row ends that don't bias?
Genrally in amigurumi you don't crochet in rows, but in spiral. This way there is no visible seam at all, but you usually need a stitch marker to keep track of where rows begin and end.

Here is a photo of a bottom of a bunny I made, to illustrate how it's done and looks: