CATHERINE WHEEL BLANKET
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How to hold your yarn in crochet : https://youtu.be/FwOlCbGdbqY
Pattern Instructions (Using U.S. terminology)
Please note that I start all my rows with a ch 1, turning chain for ease.
Please check the top of this blog for easy video tutorials on all stitches used in today's pattern. For your convenience there video tutorials through the blog too
Please read through all my notes before you pick up your hook, so you know just where we're heading in our pattern.
In my patterns I work with the principle of stitch count and body measurement. This means that you need to work the stitch count in pattern, till you get the measurement (length and/or width) that you need for your project.
In our blanket today, we start with a magic circle and work from the centre outwards.
The pattern is worked as a square - so the regular blanket sizings don't actually work here. I've made a blanket to fit a queen sized bed (60' x 60")
I've been inspired by this free pattern https://www.favecrafts.com/Crochet-Afghans/Bold-and-Beautiful-Catherines-Wheel-Crochet-Throw
Magic circle : https://youtu.be/ISC39yOqWro
Triple Crochet : trc : wrap yarn twice around hook, insert hk into st ; yo (4 lps on hk); [yo, draw through 2 lps] three times. One trc made.
Check out the video at https://youtu.be/A0y4BbgDTbs
Chainless start for Triple / Treble Crochet : I dislike the ch-2 / ch – 3 start, and this is what I do to start my row of trc.
Check out the video at https://youtu.be/f42MO0cGYC0Front Post Double Crochet : fpdc : Post stitches are stitches worked around the post of a stitch of the row below.
How to work the fpdc : yo, hk into sp between posts of st from row below – going from back of stitch, around st and into the front of the st ; yo, pull yarn through the sps (3 lps on hk), (yo & pull through 2 lps) twice. One fpdc complete
View the video at https://youtu.be/9tL5XiqKi14
Back Post Double Crochet : bpdc : Post stitches are stitches worked around the post of a stitch of the row below. Here is an easy video tutorial for the bpdc at https://youtu.be/l9Nt3miOs3s
The pattern uses front and back post treble / triple crochet stitches. So instead of yo, we wrap yarn twice around hook before working the post stitch.
After having finished the pattern, I felt that I could have used dc ; fpdc and bpdc instead of triple stitches. I felt that the triple stitches created spaces that double crochet stitches would not have had. The flip side is that using triple stitches means that the pattern advances pretty fast. Like I mentioned before, once you get the pattern going, it is an easy enough repeat.
and before you go, let's see different ways we can use this fantastic creation ...
Blanket sizing : https://in.pinterest.com/pin/470063279853964042/
