2020 Advent CAL-endar - Day 17

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

Day 17 – Inset Mosaic + Grit Stitch Just a couple more days of familiar stitches left before we move on to the border and finishing this little beauty off!

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 Go Grape to join, 1 ch, 1 dc, *2 ch, miss 1 st, 1 tr3d, 2 ch, miss 1 st, 1 dc; rep from * to end. Turn. 59 sts

Row 2 (WS): 1 ch, 1 dc, *2 ch, miss 2ch-sp, 1 dc; rep from * to end. Turn.

Row 3 (RS): Drop Go Grape, but do not fasten off, pull up a loop in Bubblegum, 1 ch, 1 dc, [1 tr3d, 1 dc, 1 tr3d, 2 ch, miss 1 st; rep from * to last two 2ch-sps, <1 tr3d, 1 dc> twice. 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 Bubblegum.

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

Rows 6–11: 1 ch, 1 dc, *miss 1 st, 2 dc in next st; rep from * to end. Turn.

Row 12 (WS): 1 ch, dc across. Turn. Fasten off.