2020 Advent CAL-endar - Day 14

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

Day 14 – Alternating Spike st (first patt row only) + Back and Front Loop dc / tr

Special Abbreviation 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 Just Peachy 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 in FLO across to last st, 1 dc. Turn.

Row 3 (RS): 3 ch (counts as 1 tr), tr in BLO across to last st, 1 tr. Turn.

Rows 4–5: Rep rows 2–3. Fasten off. Do not turn.