2020 Advent CAL-endar - Day 16

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

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.