Materials Needed
- Worsted weight cotton yarn for the main color (MC)
- Fingering weight yarn in a contrasting color (CC)
- 5.5mm crochet hook
- 2.5mm crochet hook
- Scissors
- Tapestry needle
Abbreviations/Terms Used
- ch = chain
- sc = single crochet
- sl = slip stitch
- st = stitch
- dc = double crochet
- Pom Pom Edge (from Once Upon a Pink Moon):
- join with an sc, ch 6, 3 dc in 3rd ch from hook (don't pull through the final stitch on each double crochet), yo, pull through all loops on the hook. Cluster stitch made.
- ch 3, make another cluster sitch in the loop that closed the first cluster stitch, join with sl where the first cluster begins, ch3
Instructions
Center
With MC yarn and 5.5mm hook, ch5 and sl to create a magic ring
Row 1: 7sc in magic ring. sl to first sc, ch1 (7)
Row 2: Turn, 2sc in each sc around, sl to first sc, ch1 (14)
Row 3: Turn, * 1sc in first st, 2 sc in next st *, repeat from * to * around, sl to first sc, ch 1 (21)
Row 4: Turn, *1sc in first 2 st, 2 sc in next st *, repeat from * to * around, sl to first sc, ch 1 (28)
Fasten off and weave in ends
Pom Pom Edge
Row 1: with CC yarn and 2.5mm hook, follow the instructions for the pom pom edge above in every other stitch all the way around. fasten off and weave in ends.
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