Scraps Delight
Celebrate summer with the next installment in our seasonal pennant series. Raid your worsted-weight scraps and customize your pennant by mixing and matching your favorite motifs.
Summer Fun Pennant
EASY FINISHED MEASUREMENTS Pennant: 7 inches wide x 71/4 inches long Garland: 60 inches long MATERIALS
• Medium (worsted) weight acrylic yarn:
26 yds each light yellow, light green, aqua, light blue and navy blue
14 yds tan
7 yds orange
6 yds each magenta and white 5 yds bright pink
4 yds each red and yellow
3 yds green
2 yds each pale pink, dark blue,
brown and black
• Size H/8/5mm crochet hook or
size needed to obtain gauge • Tapestry needle
• 1/4-inch-wide red rickrack: 62
inches
• Sewing needle and red thread • 11/8-inch-diameter plastic rings: 2 GAUGE 13 dc = 4 inches; 8 dc rows = 41/4 inches
PATTERN NOTES
Weave in loose ends as work progresses.
Chain-3 at beginning of row counts as first double crochet unless otherwise stated.
Join with slip stitch as indicated unless otherwise stated. SPECIAL STITCHES Single crochet 3 together (sc3tog): [Insert hook in next st, yo and pull up a lp] 3 times, yo, draw through all 4 lps on hook. Single crochet 2 together (sc2tog): [Insert hook in next st, yo and pull up a lp] twice, yo, draw through all 3 lps on hook. Single crochet join (sc join):
Place a slip knot on hook, insert hook in indicated st, yo and pull up a lp, yo and draw through both lps on hook.
Picot: Ch 2, sl st in tr just made. SPECIAL TECHNIQUE
Slip ring: Leaving 4-inch end, lap yarn over 4-inch tail, forming lp (see illustration), insert hook through lp from front to back, yo, pull through lp to form ring, yo, pull through lp on hook.
PENNANT GARLAND PENNANT Make 1 each light yellow, light green, aqua, light blue & navy blue.
Row 1 (WS): Ch 4, 2 dc in 4th ch from hook (beg 3 sk chs count as first dc), turn. (3 dc)
Row 2 (RS): Ch 3 (see Pattern Notes), dc in same st as beg ch-3, dc in next dc, 2 dc in last dc, turn. (5 dc)
Row 3: Ch 3, dc in same st as beg ch-3, dc in each dc across to last st, 2 dc in last st, turn. (7 dc)
Rows 4–11: Rep row 3. (23 dc)
Row 12: Ch 3, dc in each st across, turn.
Row 13: Ch 3, dc in next dc,
[ch 1, sk next dc, dc in next dc] 10 times, dc in last dc, turn. (13 dc, 10 ch-1 sps) Row 14: Ch 1, sc in each st and sp across, fasten off. (23 sc)
Ice Cream Cone Cone Row 1 (RS): With tan, ch 4, 2 dc in 4th ch from hook (beg 3 sk chs count as first dc), turn. (3 dc) Row 2: Ch 1, sc in back lp (see Stitch Guide) of each st across, turn.
Row 3: Ch 3, dc in same st as beg ch-3, dc in back lp of next st, 2 dc in last st, turn. (5 dc)
Row 4: Rep row 2.
Row 5: Ch 3, dc in same st as beg ch-3, dc in back lp of each st across, 2 dc in last st, turn. (7 dc)
Row 6: Rep row 2, change color (see Stitch Guide) to brown in last st, turn.
Border rnd: Ch 1, sc in each st across, ch 1, *working in ends of rows, sc in each sc row, Continued on page 56