2020 Advent CAL-endar - Day 13

Welcome to the thirteenth instalment of your beautiful advent blanket, designed by Rosina Plane.

Day 13 – Inset mosaic + floret st

It may be unlucky for some, but Part 13 is lucky for us because we're revisiting the lovely inset mosaic and floret stitches from Day 3!

Special abbreviation Tr3d (treble 3 down) – working in front of ch-sps from previous 2 rows, treble in missed st 3 rows below.

Row 1 (RS): Remove marker, pull up a loop in Watermelon to join, 1 ch, 2 dc, *2 ch, miss 1 st, 1 dc, 1 tr3d, 1 dc; rep from * to last to last 3 sts, 2 ch, miss 1 st, 2 dc. Turn. 88 sts

Row 2 (WS): 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.

Row 3 (RS): Drop Watermelon but do not cut it, pull up a loop in Icing Sugar, 1 ch, 2 dc, 1 tr3d, 1 dc, *2 ch, miss 1 st, 1 dc, 1 tr3d, 1 dc; rep from * to last st, 1 dc. Turn. 89 sts

Row 4: 1 ch, 4 dc, *2 ch, miss 2ch-sp, 3 dc; rep from * to last st, 1 dc. Turn. Fasten off Icing Sugar.

Row 5: Pull up a loop in Watermelon, 1 ch, 4 dc, *1 tr3d, 3 dc; rep from * to last st, 1 dc. Turn. 117 sts

Rows 6–7: 1 ch, dc across. Turn.

Row 8 (WS): 1 ch, *sl st in first st, 1 tr; rep from * to last st, 1 dc. Turn.

Row 9 (RS): 3 ch (counts as 1 tr), tr across. Turn.

Row 10 (WS): 1 ch, dc across. Fasten off. Turn.