Rainbow bunting -free crochet pattern - crochet cloudberry

Rainbow Bunting

Crocheting is definitely having a calming effect on me during the lock down and I am so grateful to have a hobby that can really take me away from the world’s worries for a while. I have also been noticing how others have been using arts and crafts to cope. A lot of people in my neighbourhood have been painting rainbows for their windows and after a bit of googling I discovered that children were spotting the rainbows on their daily exercise. I don’t have paints or felt tips to make a display and so I decided to hang rainbow coloured crochet bunting in the window. Hopefully, the bunting (and of course our cat Trixie) will bring a smile to somebody’s face as they pass.

If you also want to join in and make some rainbow bunting, the free pattern is below. It only uses small amounts of yarn, so it is the perfect stash buster and you won’t need to visit the yarn store…

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Rainbow bunting -free crochet pattern - crochet cloudberry
Rainbow bunting -free crochet pattern - crochet cloudberry
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Materials

For each triangle, you will need:

4 mm hook

Approx. 4g cream or white dk

Approx. 8g coloured dk in the seven colours of the rainbow

I used a mixture of Stylecraft Special DK and Paintbox Simply DK that I had in my stash.

You can purchase yarn and accessories at lovecrochet and amazon. (Using these links does not cost you any extra but I will earn a small commission that will help me keep posting free patterns).

Pattern notes

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

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

Special stiches

Fpdc – Front post double crochet

3 dtrcl – 3 double treble cluster

Rainbow bunting -free crochet pattern - crochet cloudberry
Rainbow bunting -free crochet pattern - crochet cloudberry
Round 1

Instructions

Round 1


Using colour. 6dc in mc. Join and fasten off. (6 stitches)

 

Round 2

 

Using cream/white. 3dtrcl, chain 3. 6 times. Join and fasten off. (6 clusters and 6 ch-3-sp).

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Round 2
Rainbow bunting -free crochet pattern - crochet cloudberry
Round 3

Round 3

Using colour. 4 dc into ch-3-sp, fpdc over the top of the cluster. 6 times. (30 stitches)

Round 4

2dc, 2htr, [tr, chain 3, tr], 2htr, 2dc, skip 1. 3 times. (30 stitches and 3 ch-3-sp)

Rainbow bunting -free crochet pattern - crochet cloudberry
Round 4
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Rainbow bunting -free crochet pattern - crochet cloudberry
Round 5

Round 5

5tr, [3tr, chain 3, 3tr], 5tr. 3 times. (48 stitches and 3 ch-3-sp)

Caron Simply Soft Yarn, Red
Caron Simply Soft Yarn, Gold
Caron Simply Soft Yarn, Chartreuse

Round 6

8 tr, [3tr, chain 3, 3tr], 8tr. 3 times. Fasten off. (66 stitches and 3 ch-3-sp)

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Round 6
Rainbow bunting -free crochet pattern - crochet cloudberry

Joining the triangles

Arrange your triangle in the order that you want. Using cream, chain 40. Then work into your first triangle, [2dc] into ch-3-sp, 1 dc into each stitch across, [2dc], into ch-3-sp. Chain 20, then join the second triangle as above. Repeat for each triangle. Once you have joined the final triangle chain 40 for the tie.
 
If you find you would rather have more or less space between the triangles, then you simply adjust the number of chains between them.
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Rainbow bunting -free crochet pattern - crochet cloudberry

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