Week Six Square Twenty-Three: 3D Flower

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.

SL ST slip stitch - insert your hook, yarn over and pull up a loop, pull straight through 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

POP-ST popcorn stitch – 4 tr into the same st. Remove hook and put into the top of the first tr, then using the working loop, join to the first st. ch to secure st.

CLUSTER-ST cluster stitch - *YO, insert hook in space, YO, draw up a loop, YO, draw through 2 loops, rep from * 3 times. YO, pull through all loops on hook.

Tension

Round measurements: Approx 2.5 : 5 : 7.5 : 10 : 12.5 : 15 : 15.5 cm

The Pattern

Using your CC2, make a magic ring.

RND 1: 6 dc into ring. Join to top of 1st dc with sl st. Pull ring tight. Join CC1 into top of dc.

RND 2:  Ch 3, (pop-st, ch, pop-st, ch) into the top of each st. Join to top of 1st puff-st with sl st.(12 puffs) Join MC into any ch-sp.

RND 3: Ch 3, (cluster-st, ch) into each ch-sp. Join to top of 1st cluster-st with sl st. (12 cluster) Join CC1 colour into any ch-sp.

RND 4: Ch 1, dc into same ch-sp. ch 6, *sk next ch-sp, dc into 2nd ch-sp, ch 6, rep from * 5 times. Join to top of first dc with sl st. Do not fasten off.

RND 5: *(Sl st, dc, htr, tr, 4 dtr, tr, htr, dc, sl st) into ch-6-sp, rep from * 6 times. Rep round 4-5 with CC2, working into the unused ch-sp from rnd 3. Move prev rnd 4-5, forwards to work sts behind it.

Join MC to top of cluster-st from rnd 3.

RND 6: Work only into the top of cluster-sts. Ch 4, htr, ch 2, *(dtr, ch 2, dtr), ch 2, htr, ch 2, htr, ch 2, rep from * 3 times, (dtr, ch 2, dtr), ch 2 sl st into 2nd ch from start of rnd. Do not fasten off.

RND 7: Ch 3, *tr in each st to corner-sp, (2 tr, ch 2, 2 tr) into the corner-sp, rep from * to end. Do not fasten off.

RND 8: Ch 2, *htr in each st to corner-sp, (2 htr, ch 2, 2 htr) into the corner-sp, rep from * to end.

Fasten off and weave in your ends.