Changing Tides – Week 11

Welcome to Week 11… 🙂 So many beautiful blankets being made which is a joy to see! And after last weeks ‘blankets and dogs’ round up we’ve manged a feline round-up too! Thank you so much to everyone for sharing your photos from all around the world… 🙂This weeks rounds draw inspiration from lots of elements of the changing tides and are a mix of stitches! From seaglass, to groynes, to sea foam and finally calm blue waters…

For those of you who have purchased the PDF pattern on Ravelry it has now been updated to include Week 11 in both UK and US terms…
Ravelry – Changing Tides Blanket

And here’s another Salty photo… sorry I just couldn’t resist!

Here’s a reminder of the abbreviations in UK Crochet Terminology
ch: chain, ch-sp(s): chain space(s), dc: double crochet, htr: half treble, RS: right side, RdcF: Raised double crochet Front (see pattern notes below), ss: slip stitch, st(s): stitch(es), tr: treble, WS: wrong side

RdcF: Raised double crochet Front: complete a double crochet st as normal but insert hook around the stem of the st inserting hook from right to left going from the front to the back and then round to the front again.

Round 62 (WS) Join Yarn G to any corner ch-sp, 5ch (counts as 1 tr and 2 ch), 1tr in same corner ch-sp, continue with * (1ch, miss 1 st, 1tr in next st) to end of side, 1ch, miss final st, (1tr, 2ch, 1tr) in corner ch-sp, repeat from * on next three sides ending with ss to 3^rd ch of first 5 ch, fasten off, turn [74 x 1-ch-sps on each side and 4 x corner 2-ch-sps]

Round 63 (RS) Join Yarn B to any corner ch-sp, 3ch, (1tr, 2ch, 2tr) in same corner ch-sp, continue with 2tr in each ch-sp around working (2tr, 2ch, 2tr) in each corner ch-sp, ss to top of first 3 ch, fasten off, do not turn [152 sts on each side]

Here’s a YouTube tutorial for this next round which is a repeat of Round 27 in week 2…

Round 64 With RS of work facing, join Yarn C to 25^th tr st in from any left outer edge of Round 62 going around the post of the st from right to left, 4ch (counts as 1 dc and 3 ch), 1RdcF around same st, *2ch, 1RdcF around next st to the left, 3ch, 1RdcF around same st, repeat from * to end of side and continue to 25^th st along on next side, fasten off. Repeat from start of Round 64 for remaining three corners

Round 65 (RS) Join Yarn G to any corner ch-sp, 3ch (counts as 1 dc and 2 ch), 1dc in same corner ch-sp, continue with (2ch, miss 2 sts, 1dc in space in-between sts) and repeat all around working (1dc, 2ch, 1dc) in each corner ch-sp, ss to first ch, fasten off, turn [77 dc sts on each side]

Round 66 (WS) Join Yarn B to any corner ch-sp, 4ch (counts as 1 htr and 2 ch), 1htr in same corner ch-sp, continue with 2htr in each ch-sp around working (1htr, 2ch, 1htr) in each corner ch-sp, ss to second ch of first 4 ch, fasten off, turn [154 sts on each side]

Round 67 (RS) Join Yarn A to any corner ch-sp, 4ch (counts as 1 htr and 2 ch), 1htr in same corner ch-sp, continue with 1htr in each st around working (1htr, 2ch, 1htr) in each corner ch-sp, ss to second of first 4 ch, fasten off, turn [156 sts on each side]

Have a great week and Happy Crocheting… 🙂

PATTERN IN US TERMS

Abbreviations in US Crochet Terminology
ch: chain, ch-sp(s): chain space(s), dc: double crochet, FPsc: Front Post single crochet (see pattern notes below), hdc: half double crochet, RS: right side, sc: single crochet, sl st: slip stitch, st(s): stitch(es), WS: wrong side

FPsc: Front Post single crochet: complete a single crochet st as normal but insert hook around the stem of the st inserting hook from right to left going from the front to the back and then round to the front again.

Round 62 (WS) Join Yarn G to any corner ch-sp, 5ch (counts as 1 dc and 2 ch), 1dc in same corner ch-sp, continue with * (1ch, skip 1 st, 1dc in next st) to end of side, 1ch, skip final st, (1dc, 2ch, 1dc) in corner ch-sp, repeat from * on next three sides ending with sl st to 3^rd ch of first 5 ch, fasten off, turn [74 x 1-ch-sps on each side and 4 x corner 2-ch-sps]

Round 63 (RS) Join Yarn B to any corner ch-sp, 3ch, (1dc, 2ch, 2dc) in same corner ch-sp, continue with 2dc in each ch-sp around working (2dc, 2ch, 2dc) in each corner ch-sp, sl st to top of first 3 ch, fasten off, do not turn [152 sts on each side]

Round 64 With RS of work facing, join Yarn C to 25^th dc st in from any left outer edge of Round 62 going around the post of the st from right to left, 4ch (counts as 1 sc and 3 ch), 1FPsc around same st, *2ch, 1FPsc around next st to the left, 3ch, 1FPsc around same st, repeat from * to end of side and continue to 25^th st along on next side, fasten off. Repeat from start of Round 64 for remaining three corners.

Round 65 (RS) Join Yarn G to any corner ch-sp, 3ch (counts as 1 sc and 2 ch), 1sc in same corner ch-sp, continue with (2ch, skip 2 sts, 1sc in space in-between sts) and repeat all around working (1sc, 2ch, 1sc) in each corner ch-sp, sl st to first ch, fasten off, turn [77 sc sts on each side]

Round 66 (WS) Join Yarn B to any corner ch-sp, 4ch (counts as 1 hdc and 2 ch), 1hdc in same corner ch-sp, continue with 2hdc in each ch-sp around working (1hdc, 2ch, 1hdc) in each corner ch-sp, sl st to second ch of first 4 ch, fasten off, turn [154 sts on each side]

Round 67 (RS) Join Yarn A to any corner ch-sp, 4ch (counts as 1 hdc and 2 ch), 1hdc in same corner ch-sp, continue with 1hdc in each st around working (1hdc, 2ch, 1hdc) in each corner ch-sp, sl st to second of first 4 ch, fasten off, turn [156 sts on each side]