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Snow Flower Shawl - Making The Yoke

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Materials: Crochet Hook, 3.75mm Yarn Needle Pattern is for Right handed crochet. Adult Size Shawl: Sm. to Med.  Note:  I'll write the pattern for individual flower later.  For now, this part is a documentation on how the flowers are interconnected to make the shawl. Making The Flower Motif And Using The Join As You Go Method: R1:  Ch5, slst on 5th ch from hook to form ring. (B)ch1.  15 sc over ring. Slst on (B)ch1.  R2:  (B)Ch4, tr on same st.  (Ch3, skip next st, 2tr on next st) 8x. Ch3, tr on 4th chain of (B)ch4. R3:  Making the joining loop--Slst on next 2 stitches. (B)Sc on this space, (Ch7, sc on next sp)7x.  Ch5, slst on (b)Sc. Note:  One flower motif completed. Connecting Two Motifs:  Note that the second and subsequent motif is done up to R2.  On R3, the new motif is being joined to the old motif as R3 is being worked on the new motif. N= New motif; O = old motif R3  of new and subsequent motif:   Working from new motif, Ch3, insert hook from

Wheel Among The Leaves - Baby Boy Afghan

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Materials And Tools:  Bernat Baby Yarn, sports weight ctegory 3. 1256 yds/1148 m/ ball, color blue, click  here  for more information about this yarn; Crochet hook, size 3.75 mm, Yarn needle for weaving or hiding yarn tails.   Finished afghan without the edging =  aproximately 32 by 32 inches.  Each block measures 8 by 8 inches; 16 blocks, (4 blocks accross and 4 blocks down), are needed to make a 32 by 32 inch afghan.  Each block uses aproximately 38 yds of yarn (38 x16= 608 yds).  From this statistic, you can make  the afghan bigger and calculate how many yards needed. It took me 1 hr and 5 mins. to finish a block.  Probably can be done in 45 minutes with more focus.   The pattern uses the "Join as you go" method to connect the squares together.  In this method, the first motif is finished up to the last round.  The second and subsequent motifs are done up to the round before the last round.  The new motif is being joined to the completed motif as the last