Backing the daffodils

After the excitement of the daffodil stitch last week, this week needed a some background stitches to make them pop out.

That has also been been the motto of my general crochet this week: I am working on a couple of exciting projects in the background that will be released over summer. I have a special note book that I write all my ideas in and the first copies of the patterns and it has barely left my side this week. And since some of my projects are to be kept strictly under wraps until release, my book is all I can show you (but at least it is a pretty book).

This week has been about working the stitches behind last week’s daffodil stitch with a full three rows in Ocean and using front post trebles to embellish the corners.

Materials

Caron Simply Soft – Gold

Caron Simply Soft – Ocean

Caron Simply Soft – Orchid

Caron Simply Soft – Sunshine

5 mm hook

Tapestry needle and sharp scissors

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Pattern notes

The pattern is written using UK terminology, for a conversion chart to US terminology click this link.

The blanket is worked in the round. You do not need to turn your work after each row and you continue working in the same direction as before.

[Stitches written in brackets like this are all worked into the same stitch.]

For the first stitch on each row: Chain 1 to move up to the next round if the round starts with double crochet. Chain 2 if the round starts with a half treble crochet, and chain 3 if the round starts with a treble crochet. These chains count as the first stitch in the row

Special stitches

Ch – chain

Fptr – front post treble

Htr – half treble

Start crocheting here:

Round 12

Use Ocean

[htr, 2 ch, htr] in corner ch-2-sp, 4fptr, * 4 dc in ch-3-sp, ch 5 and place behind the trumpet. From * 8 times. 4dc in ch-3-sp, 4 fptr. Repeat full sequence 4 times. (46 stitches and 8 ch-5-sp per side)

Round 13

Ss to corner. [htr, ch 2, htr], 5fptr, *4htr, 5htr in ch -5-sp. Repeat from*8 times. 4htr, 5fptr. Repeat full sequence 4 times. (88 stitcher per side)