Week Five Square Twenty: 'Sunflower' Square

Stitches you need to know

YO yarn over - bring your yarn over your hook from the back over the top to the front

CH chain - pull your yarn over through the loop on your hook.

SLST slip stitch - insert hook, yarn over and pull up a loop, pull through loop on hook.

DC double crochet (US sc - single crochet) - insert your hook into the stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop. Yarn over and pull through both loops on your hook. 

CH-SP chain space - the space created by a chain stitch.

PREV previous

Special Stitches

PUFF-ST puff stitch – YO and pull up to the height of the 3ch. Insert hook into chain space and YO, pulling through up to the height of the stitch again. Do this 5 times, until you have 11 loops on your hook. YO and pull through all loops. YO and pull through loop to secure.

3-CLUSTER cluster stitch – YO, insert hook in space, YO, draw up a loop, YO, draw through 2 loops. (2 loops left on hook) YO, insert hook back into same space, YO, draw up a loop, YO, draw through 2 loops. (3 loops left on hook) YO, insert hook back into same space, YO, draw up a loop, YO, draw through 2 loops. (4 loops left on hook) YO and draw through all 4 loops.

Tension

Round measurements:  Approx 2 : 5 : 7.5 : 10 : 12.5 : 15 : 15.5 cm

The Pattern

Using your CC1, make a magic ring.

RND 1:  6 dc into the ring. Pull tight.

RND 2: ch 3 (does not count as a stitch here and throughout), *(puff-st, ch) twice, (puff st, ch, puff st) into the next ch-sp, Rep from * twice. Join into the top of your 1st puff with a sl st. (8 puff st)

RND 3: ch 3, (puff st, ch, puff st, ch) into each ch-sp. Join into the top of your 1st puff with a sl st. (16 puffs) Fasten off.

Join CC2 to the between of any 2 puff sts in the ch-sp.

RND 4: ch 3, 3-cluster into same ch-sp, ch 1, (3-cluster, ch 1) into each ch-sp. Join into top of cluster-st with sl st. (16 clusters) Fasten off.

Join MC or CC1 into any ch-sp.

RND 5: ch 4 (counts as a dtr), (dtr, ch 2, 2 dtr) into same ch-sp, *(tr, 2 htr) into next ch-sp, 3 dc into next ch-sp, (2 htr, tr) into next ch-sp**, (2 dtr, ch 2, 2 dtr) into next ch-sp, Rep from * three times, stopping at ** on last rep. Join into top of ch 4 with sl st.

RND 6-7: ch 3 (counts as st), tr in each st to the corner-sp, (2 tr, ch 2, 2 tr) into corner-sp. *Tr to the next corner-sp, (2 tr, ch 2, 2 tr) into corner-sp, rep from * 3 times, tr to last st.

Fasten off and finish with an invisible finish.