Summermead Throw

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

49 inches wide x 561/2 inches long

MATERIALS

• Red Heart With Love medium (worsted) weight acrylic yarn (7 oz/ 370 yds/198g per skein): 4 skeins #1001 white 1 skein each #1701 hot pink, #1502 iced aqua, #1704 bubblegum, #1530 violet, #1803 blue Hawaii, #1538 lilac, #1207 cornsilk, #1623 mallard, #1621 evergreen and #1907 boysenberry • Size I/9/5.5mm crochet hook or

size needed to obtain gauge • Yarn needle

GAUGE

Block = 51/4 inches square

PATTERN NOTES

Weave in loose ends as work progresses. For each Block, round 1 requires 4 yards, rounds 2 and 3 require 5 yards, rounds 4–6 require 9 yards and round 9 requires 6 yards. Use colors in desired order. Chain-3 at beginning of round counts as first double crochet unless otherwise stated. Join with slip stitch as indicated unless otherwise stated. Chain-2 at beginning of round counts as first half double crochet unless otherwise stated.

THROW

BLOCK

color (see Pattern Notes), using

a slip ring (see illustration),

ch 3 (see Pattern Notes), dc, [ch 4, 2 dc] 7 times in slip ring, ch 4, join (see Pattern Notes) in beg ch-3. Fasten off. (16 dc,

8 ch-4 sps)

Rnd 2: Join next color, ch 1, sc in same st as joining, [ch 1, sk 1 dc, keeping ch-4 lps to front, sc in next st] 7 times, ch 1, join in beg sc. (8 sc, 8 ch-1 sps)

Rnd 3: Ch 1, *(sc, hdc, dc, hdc, sc) in next ch-1 sp for shell, rep from * around, join in beg sc. Fasten off. (8 shells) Rnd 4: Join next color with

bpsc (see Stitch Guide) around any sk dc in rnd 2, ch 3, [working behind rnd 3 shells, bpsc around next sk dc in rnd 2, ch 3] 7 times, join in beg bpsc. (8 bpsc,

8 ch-3 sps)

Rnd 5: Ch 1, *(sc, hdc, 3 dc, hdc, sc) in next ch-3 sp for shell, rep from * around, join in beg ch.

(8 shells)

Rnd 6: Ch 1, bpsc around first bpsc of rnd 4, ch 5, *bpsc around next bpsc of rnd 4, ch 5, rep from * around, join in beg bpsc. Fasten off. (8 bpsc, 8 ch-5 sps) Rnd 7: Join white in any ch-5 sp, ch 3, (2 dc, ch 3, 3 dc) in same sp (corner made), *ch 1, 3 dc in next ch-5 sp, ch 1**, (3 dc, ch 3, 3 dc) in next ch-5 sp, rep from * around, ending last rep at **, join in beg ch-3. (36 dc, 4 ch-3

sps, 8 ch-1 sps)

Rnd 8: Ch 1, sc in same place as joining, sc in each dc, 3 sc in each ch-3 sp, sc in each ch-1 sp around, join in beg sc. Fasten off. (56 sc) Rnd 9: Working in back lp

(see Stitch Guide) of sts, join desired color in any corner sc,

ch 2 (see Pattern Notes), 2 hdc in same st, hdc in each st around, working 3 hdc in center st of each corner, join in beg ch-2. Fasten off. (64 hdc)

Rnd 10: Working in back lp of sts, join white with sc in center st of any corner, (hdc, sc) in same st, sc in each st around, working (sc, hdc, sc) in center st of each corner, join in beg sc, leaving 12-inch length, fasten off. (68 sc, 4 hdc)

ASSEMBLY

Lay out Blocks as desired in 8 rows of 10 Blocks. With rem length of yarn, whipstitch (see

illustration) Blocks tog.

BORDER

Rnd 1 (RS): Working in back lp of sts, join white with sc in any corner st, work 2 sc in same st, sc in each st around, working

3 sc in each corner st, join in beg sc. Fasten off.

Rnd 2 (RS): Working in back lp of sts, join desired color in any corner st, ch 2, 2 hdc in same st, hdc in each st around working 3 hdc in each corner st, join in beg ch-2. Fasten off.

Rnds 3–6: [Rep rnds 1 and 2 alternately] twice.

FINISHING

Block Throw.