Crochet-a-long Week 4 - Flower Granny Square

[grizle]

Hi everyone, heres week 4. Decided to stick with a square for those wanting to piece them all together later on.

Flower Granny Square

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library ... nny-square

It does have a decrease for those that are beginners - http://crochet.about.com/library/bl_decrease.htm
Row 5 is the row where you make it into a square - just in case you are a bit confused.
Should be 6"x6" when finished.

Flower Granny square
1 row: ch 2, 8 sc in second stitch from hook. Join with a sl st in first sc.

2 row: ch3, 1 dc in same stitch as ch 3, * 2 dc, ch 3* 7 times more (8 dc groups), Join with a slst in top of ch-3.

3 row: sl st to the first ch, 5 sc in each ch-3 all around. Join with a sl st in first sc. Cut yarn.

4 row: New Color - start in the second sc in a ”flowerleaf”. * 1sc, 3 sc in next (middle stitch of the flowerleaf), 1 sc, dec 2 sc into one.* Join with a sl st in first sc.

5 row: ch 3, 1dc, 7 sc, 2 dc, (1 tr, ch 3, 1 tr )i next stitch, * 2 dc, 7 sc, 2 dc, (1 tr, ch 3, 1 tr) in next stitch * Join with a sl st in top of ch-3.

6 row: 1 sc in same as sl st, 10 sc, skip 1 stitch, 5 sc in ch-3, *skip 1 stitch, 11 sc, skip 1 stitch, 5 sc in ch-3 * Join with a sl st in first sc. Cut yarn.

7 row: New color (same as you started with) - Start in second stitch of one of the corners, 1 sc, 3 sc in next stitch, *15 sc, 3 sc in next stitch * end the row with 14 sc, Join with a sl st in first sc.

8 row: 1 sc in same as sl st, 1 sc, 3sc in next stitch, *17 sc, 3 sc in next stitch* end the row with 15 sc, Join with a sl st in first sc. Cut yarn.
Fasten all ends.

(Instructions copied and pasted from Rav PDF)

Have fun

ETA - Use 2 colours get the effect of the flower

[white-rose]

oh I like that one - will have a go later tonight I think

[Dunners]

2 row: ch3, 1 dc in same stitch as ch 3, * 2 dc, ch 3* 7 times more (8 dc groups), Join with a slst in top of ch-3.

I was just working off the Rav PDF and thought I'd clarify something in case others are
Round 2 as above, should be
ch 3, 1 dc into same stitch as ch 3, ch 3 *2 dc, ch 3*
or (remove the "as") ch 3, 1 dc into same stitch, ch 3, *2 dc, ch 3*
otherwise there's no spacing between 1st & 2nd groups (the above instructions both say the same thing, I'm just trying to deconstruct to decide what the typo/error may have been.

I'm, on round 5 now and am It's been a big day with a very early start, so I think I'll call it a night and look at it afresh tomorrow morning.

[white-rose]

I finished it last night - I found a couple of typos but I winged it to make it work and didnt keep a record of what I did - I arent that good yet!!
I do like it though, looks really pretty.

I will pop photos up tomorrow.

[grizle]

2 row: ch3, 1 dc in same stitch as ch 3, * 2 dc, ch 3* 7 times more (8 dc groups), Join with a slst in top of ch-3.

I was just working off the Rav PDF and thought I'd clarify something in case others are
Round 2 as above, should be
ch 3, 1 dc into same stitch as ch 3, ch 3 *2 dc, ch 3*
or (remove the "as") ch 3, 1 dc into same stitch, ch 3, *2 dc, ch 3*
otherwise there's no spacing between 1st & 2nd groups (the above instructions both say the same thing, I'm just trying to deconstruct to decide what the typo/error may have been.

I'm, on round 5 now and am It's been a big day with a very early start, so I think I'll call it a night and look at it afresh tomorrow morning.

I was a bit confused when i did mine - thought it was just me not reading the pattern quite right. I had to undo mine and start again - 2nd time i knew what it was meant to look like so just made it how it should look . Thanks for correcting/clarifying things.

[white-rose]

It needs a bit of blocking I think, I may have done it a bit tight.

[Dunners]

I've finished my first one now, I don't know what round 5 had me so stumped (I think I was expecting to multiple increases into one stitch, I didn't read it as "one thing for each stitch")

I did an outer row of dcs rather than scs and have a finished 5" size, yay!

Having a look on the Rav projects list, I LOVE this variation http://www.ravelry.com/projects/craftym ... nny-square I think I'll have a play with my next one...

[Dunners]

so the grey yarn is lighter weight than the orange I think I can manipulate them to be about the same size to fit though