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Popcorn Valley Throw

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

50 inches wide x 70 inches long

MATERIALS

• Red Heart With Love medium (worsted) weight acrylic yarn (7 oz/370 yds/198g per skein):

8 skeins #1601 lettuce • Size K/101/2/6.5mm crochet hook

or size needed to obtain gauge • Yarn needle

GAUGE

Gauge swatch: 5 inches x 51/2 inches; ch 21, follow pattern for rows 1–11, fasten off.

PATTERN NOTES

Weave in loose ends as work progresses. Chain-2 at beginning of row or round counts as first double crochet unless otherwise stated. When a row begins with chain-1, do not work in this stitch; begin row in next stitch. Join with slip stitch as indicated unless otherwise stated.

SPECIAL STITCHES

Double crochet decrease (dc

dec): Yo, insert hook in next st, yo, draw up a lp, yo, draw through 2 lps on hook, sk next 2 sts, yo, insert hook in next st, yo, draw up a lp, yo, draw through 2 lps on hook, yo, draw through 3 lps on hook.

Popcorn (pc): 5 dc in indicated sp, drop lp from hook, insert hook in first dc of 5-dc group, pick up dropped lp and draw through st on hook. Double crochet decrease in popcorn (dc dec in pc): Yo, insert hook in top of next pc, yo, draw up a lp, yo, draw through 2 lps on hook, sk next 2 dc, yo, insert hook in top of next pc, yo, draw up a lp, yo, draw through 2 lps on hook, yo, draw through all 3 lps on hook.

THROW

Row 1: Ch 172, dc in 3rd ch from hook (sk chs count as first dc), dc in each of next 7 chs, *(dc, ch 3, dc) in next ch, dc in each of next 8 chs**, dc dec (see Special

Stitches), dc in each of next 8 sts, rep from * across, ending last rep at **, dc in next ch, turn. (9 ch-3 sps, 8 dc dec, 164 dc) Row 2: Ch 1 (see Pattern Notes), sc in each of next 9 sts, *(sc,

pc— see Special Stitches, sc) in next ch-3 sp, sc in each of next 9 sts, sk next dc dec, sc in each of next 9 sts, rep from * across to last ch-3 sp, (sc, pc, sc) in next ch-3 sp, sc in each of next 8 sts,