Hi everyone!
We are so excited to be part of the Stylecraft Blogstars, and participating in this 2017 blog tour! Hopefully you all visited Polly Plum at Every Trick on the Hook yesterday and entered the yarn pack giveaway there ;)
As you know, we absolutely adore the Stylecraft Batik yarn, and the new Elements yarn is just as pretty and squishy!
Our chosen pack for the blog tour is called Rainforest, using the Platinum colourway of Elements and matching and contrasting colours Teal, Old Gold, Pistachio, Violet, Plum and Raspberry.
We wanted to do something a bit quirky with this yarn, so developed a pram blanket that finishes about 80cm by 85cm, made from tesselating heptagons and pentagons. You could easily make it bigger with more yarn.
The blanket is all Join-as-you-go, so no sewing a million motifs together, and we have provided a colour chart of the blanket to help you get the colour spread nice and random!
And those colours... all we could think of was looking at pebbled pools through the water, with precious jewels instead of boring rock pebbles. Hence, the Jewelled Pebbles Blanket!
Want to win a Rainforest Yarn Pack to make this pram blanket? The giveaway is open until 10am GMT tomorrow!
For the next stop on the blog tour and another chance to win a yarn pack, make sure you visit Cherry Heart tomorrow!
All the blogstars are participating in the blog tour, and you can visit them at
Get Knotted Yarn Craft, Every Trick on the Hook, Zooty Owl, Lucia's Fig Tree, Cherry Heart, Hand Knitted Things, Josiekitten, The Twisted Yarn, Annaboo's House, Crafternoon Treats, The Patchwork Heart, Emma Varnam, Attic24, Jane Crowfoot and Catherine's Crochet Corner.
Queue or favourite the Jewelled Pebbles Blanket on Ravelry here:
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FREE PATTERN: JEWELLED PEBBLES BLANKET------------------------------------------------------
Finished size: 80cm x 85cm
Materials:
One Rainforest Yarn Pack, including:
4 balls Batik Elements in Platinum
1 ball each of Batik in:
- Teal
- Old Gold
- Pistachio
- Violet
- Plum
- Raspberry
4mm/G hook
4.5mm/H hook
yarn needle
scissors
All Stitches are in US/American terminology
ch - chain stitch
dc - double crochet
slst - slip stitch
Special Stitches
- Magic Circle (MC) - tutorial here
- JAYG - motifs are only joined in corners, not along sides. Replace one chain of corner with slipstitch into adjacent corner ch space (replace both chains when joining to two adjacent corner ch spaces).
Instructions
Pentagon (all pentagons are made with the Platinum Elements yarn)
Row 1 - MC. ch3, 2dc, *ch2, 3dc* four times, ch2, slst to top of first ch3. (5 x 3dc groups with 2ch between)
Row 2 - ch3. *in next corner space, (3dc, 2ch, 3dc)* 4 times. In first corner space, (3dc, 2ch, 2dc) and slst join to top of first ch3. finish off. (6dc per side).
Heptagon
Row 1 - MC. ch3, 1dc. *ch1, 2dc* 6 times. ch1, slst to top of first ch3. (7 x 2dc groups with 1ch between)
Row 2 - ch3. *in next corner space, (2dc, 2ch, 2dc)* 6 times. In first corner space, (2dc, 2ch, 1dc) and slst to top of first ch3. (2 x 2dc groups on each of 7 sides)
Row 3 - ch3, dc in same sp. *in corner, (2dc, ch2, 2dc), 2dc in next space* 7 times, omitting final 2dc in last repeat. slst to top of first ch3. finish off. (6 dc per side)
Starting in top left corner, join each shape with JAYG during final row, in corners only.
BORDER
The first three rows are crocheted in Platinum.
Row 1: Join the yarn in the pentagon on the left side bottom. 1ch and then 1sc into the same stitch. Crochet 1sc into every st, except into the tops of the heptagons and the pentagons. Crochet 3sc into these. At the end of the row, sl st into the first sc. 1ch.
Row 2 + 3: 1sc into every st with two exceptions: a) crochet 3sc into every top of the heptagons and the pentagons b) 2sctog across the 2st at every dip where two pieces very joined. At the end of the row, sl st into the first sc. 1ch. Finish of at the end of row 3. Weave in the ends.
Row 4: The row is crochet like row 2. You will change color in the middle of each side. Use the following color order: Teal, Old Gold, Raspberry, Plum, Teal, Old Gold, Violet, Pistachio. Finish off and weave in the ends.
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Muster: JEWELLED PEBBLES DECKE
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Maße: 80cm x 85 cm.
Material:
Ein
Rainforest Garnpaket. Dieses enthält:
4 Knäule Batik Elements Platinum
Jeweils ein Knäul:
- Teal
- Old Gold
- Pistachio
- Violet
- Plum
- Raspberry
4mm Häkelnadel
4.5mm Häkelnadel
Nähnadel
Schere
Abkürzungen
Lm =
Luftmasche
fM =
fest Masche
Stb = Stäbchen
Km = Kettmasche
Besondere Maschen
Magischer
Kreis – Hier findest du eine Anleitung
JAYG (Join as you go) – Die Motive werden nur in den Ecken
verbunden und nicht an den Seiten. Ersetze eine Lm der Ecke mit einer Km in die
angrenzende Eckenlücke (ersetze beide Lm mit einer Km, wenn du ein Motiv mit
zwei angrenzenden Eckenlücken verbindest).
Anleitung
(Grafik zur Anordnung der Motive weiter oben in diesem Blogpost)
Fünfeck
(alle
Pentagone werden mit Platinum Elements gehäkelt)
Reihe 1:
Magischer Kreis. 3Lm, 2Stb, *2Lm, 3Stb* x 4, 2Lm, Km oberste Lm der Anfangs-3Lm.
(5 x 3Stb-Gruppen mit je 2Lm zwischen ihnen)
Reihe
2: 3Lm. *in die nächste Ecke: (3Stb, 2Lm, 3Stb)* x 4. In die erste Ecke: 3Stb,
2Lm, 2Stb) und dann Km in die oberste Lm der Anfangs-3Lm. Abmaschen (6Stb an
jeder Seite).
Siebeneck
Reihe 1: Magischer Kreis. 3Lm, 1Stb, *1Lm, 2Stb* x 6. 1Lm,
Km in die oberste der Anfangs-3Lm. (7x 2Stb-Gruppen with je 1Lm zwischen ihnen)
Reihe 2: 3Lm. *in die nächste Ecke: (2Stb, 2Lm, 2Stb)* x 6.
In die erste Ecke: (2Stb, 2Lm, 1Stb) und dann Km in die oberste der
Anfangs-3Lm. (2 x 2Stb-Gruppen an jeder der 7 Seiten)
Reihe 3: 3Lm, Stb in dieselbe Lücke, *in die Ecke: (2Stb,
2Lm, 2Stb), 2Stb in die nächste Lücke* x7, überspringe die letzten 2Stb in der
letzten Wiederholung. Km in die oberste der Anfangs-3Lm. (6Stb an jeder Seite)
Beginne in der oberen linken Ecke und verbinde die Motive
jeweils in den Ecken mit dem JAYG in der 3.Runde (Siebenecke) bzw. 2.Runde
(Fünfecke).
Umrandung
Die ersten drei Reihen werden in Platinum gehäkelt.
Reihe 1: Beginne in der unteren linken Ecke. 1Lm und dann 1fM in dieselbe Masche. Häkle 1sc in jede Masche, außer an den Spitzen der Fünf- und Siebenecke. Häkle dort 3fM in die Spitzenmasche. Am Ende der Reihe: Km in die erste fM. 1Lm.
Reihe 2 + 3: 1fM in jede Masche mit zwei Ausnahmen: a) Häkle dort 3fM in die Spitzenmasche der Spitzen der Fünf- und Siebenecke. b) 2fM zus abm in jedem Tal, d.h. dort, wo zwei Motive verbunden wurden. Am Ende der Reihe kM in die erste fM. Am Ende von Reihe 3 abmaschen und Enden vernähen.
Reihe 4: Die Reihe wird wie Reihe 2 gehäkelt, aber du wirst die Farbe jeweils in der Mitte einer Seite wechseln. Benutze hier die folgende Farbreihenfolge: Teal, Old Gold, Raspberry, Plum, Teal, Old Gold, Violet, Pistachio. Am Ende abmaschen und die Enden vernähen.
