Materials and preparation
See part 1 for yarn and hook requirements.
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Abbreviations (US terms)
- ch
- chain
- ch-space
- chain space: the space below the chain of the previous row. The same goes for ch-2 space, ch-3 space etc
- dc
- double crochet
- dc3tog
- double crochet 3 stitches together to decrease the stitch count by 2: (yarn over, insert hook in stitch, yarn over, pull up loop, yarn over, pull through first two loops on hook) once in each of three stitches, yarn over, pull through all loops on hook
- dc7tog
- double crochet 7 stitches together to decrease the stitch count by 6: (yarn over, insert hook in stitch, yarn over, pull up loop, yarn over, pull through first two loops on hook) once in each of seven stitches, yarn over, pull through all loops on hook
- hdc
- half double crochet
- RS
- Right side
- sc
- single crochet
- ss
- slip stitch
- st(s)
- stitch(es)
- WS
- wrong side
Repeat formats
- *….; rep from * once/twice/3x — Crochet the instructions after * and then repeat that section a further number of times as indicated.
- (…) once/twice/3x — Crochet the instructions between brackets the total number of times indicated.
- […] — Indicates the amount of stitches at the end of a row or round.
- (…) in same st/sp — Indicates that all instructions between brackets are worked in the same stitch or space.
Notes
- Don't forget: Blue colour codes are for the Rainbow version!
Colour layout
Techniques
Catherine Wheel
Click here for the tutorial about the catherine wheel.
Crochet pattern
Catherine Wheel Section 1 (rows 59-64)
The Catherine wheel is a fun stitch to learn. As the name suggests, the pattern creates big wheels that you crochet over the course of two rows. The stitch might look complex at first glance, but as long as you tackle it step by step, you can do it!
Since we’re only going to work one row of Catherine wheels the next row will look like Row 60, but will not be exactly the same. If you would crochet 7 chains as the ‘top’ row of the Catherine wheel, you can imagine that all your next rows would have quite the gap. Instead, we’ll be securing the chain to the Catherine wheels. This way, you can continue with the rest of your blanket without big gaps. Basically, we’re mirroring Row 59.
We’ll need to make sure we’re going back to 145 hdc in the next row. This means counting! Luckily, we can look to Row 59 for that. Each Catherine wheel took up 6 stitches (1sc, 2 skipped stitches, a Catherine wheel and then 2 skipped stitches again) for every repeat. So we’ll just need to make sure we’re working 6 stitches per Catherine wheel to get back to 144 plus the final stitch that we’ve used to fasten the last wheel.
Continue with part 6 of the pattern.
Diagrams
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