Welcome to the fifteenth instalment of your beautiful advent blanket, designed by Rosina Plane.
All the posts about the CAL and each instalment is now together in its own section of the website here.
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Day 16 – Crossed Trebles, changing to inset mosaic
Special abbreviations
2 ctr (2 crossed trebles) – miss next st, 1 tr in next st, 1 tr in missed st, working in front of the previous tr.
Spike dc (spike double crochet) – insert hook in st 2 rows below, yrh, pul to height of working row, yrh, draw through both loops on hook.
Standing stitches are made as usual sts beginning with the slip knot on hook.
Row 1 (RS): Join Bubblegum with a standing dc in first st, *1 spike dc, 1 dc; rep from * to end. Turn. 117 sts
Row 2 (WS): 1 ch, dc across. Turn.
Row 3 (RS): 3 ch (counts as 1 tr), 1 tr, [2 ctr] 57 times, 1 tr. Turn.
Row 4 (WS): As Row 2.
Row 5: 1 ch, 2 dc, *2 ch, miss 1 st, 3 dc; rep from * to last 3 sts, 2 ch, miss 1 st, 2 dc. Turn. 88 sts
Row 6: 1 ch, 2 dc, *2 ch, miss 2ch-sp, 3 dc; rep from * to last 2ch-sp, 2 ch, miss 2ch-sp, 2 dc. Turn. Do not fasten off. Leave loop on a locking marker until tomorrow.
Emma
Can anyone help with Row 5? it says I should only have 88 stitches at the end of this row but if I stop at 88 I’m not at the end of the blanket – I still have 23 stitches to go? Appreciate your help!