Week Six Square Twenty-One: Bobble Stitch

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.

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.

HTR half-treble crochet (US hdc half-double crochet) - yarn over, insert your hook into the stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop. Yarn over and pull through 2 loops on your hook twice.

TR treble crochet (US dc - double crochet) yarn over, insert your hook into the stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop. Yarn over and pull through 2 loops on your hook twice.

DTR double-treble crochet (US tr - triple crochet) yarn over twice, insert your hook into the stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop. Yarn over and pull through 2 loops on your hook three times.

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

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Special Stitches

BOBBLE-ST bobble stitch – YO, insert hook in space, YO, draw up a loop, YO, draw through 2 loops. Repeat from * 5 times, until you have 6 loops left on your hook. YO and pull through all loops on your hook. Ch to seal the st.

Tension

Approx 17 sts and 12 rows per 10x10cm square.

The Pattern

Using your MC, ch 27.

ROW 1: tr into 4th ch from hook (turning ch counts as st here and throughout). tr into each ch to end. (25 sts)

ROW 2: Ch 1, 3 dc, *bobble-st, 5 dc, rep from * 3 times, bobble-st, 3 dc.

ROW 3: Ch 3, (counts as tr here and throughout), tr in each st.

ROW 4: ch 1, 6 dc, *bobble-st, 5 dc, rep from * 3 times, 6 dc.

Rep row 2-3 until you have 19 rows. Ending on a treble row after you have done a 4-bobble row.

Fasten off and weave in your ends. Attach to any st in your last row, dc in each st to corner (dc ch, dc) into corner st, roughly place 25-27 sts down the edge.