The Blossom Pattern

Hello everyone and welcome back.

I have recently come across a photo of a very rich and textured knitted pattern. I have done some knitting when I was young but it was only the basics; knitting and purling and never learned how to read a knitting diagram. 

And so I decided to challenge myself to crochet it instead. I haven’t done this before and after several trial and errors and lots of frogging, I am now ready to introduce the Blossom crochet pattern to you. 

Unfortunately, most of my stash is of weight 4. I am sure that if it’s done with a DK, the outcome will be even better. 

So let’s get started with the pattern. A video tutorial is available here 

Abbreviations:
Ch: Chain
Hdc: Half double crochet
Bpdc: Back post double crochet
Fpdc: Front post double crochet
Popcorn: 5 double crochet stitches into the same stitch, take the hook out of the loop, insert the hook into the first double crochet stitch, pull the loop through and chain 1

For one repeat as shown in the video tutorial, start by chaining 17 foundation chains;

Row 1: Ch 1, turn, hdc into the 2nd chain from hook, hdc x 16   
Row 2: Ch 1, turn, hdc x 2, bpdc x 2, sk 2 sts, fpdc x 2, fpdc x 2 around the posts of the skipped sts (working them behind the posts of the previous 2 fpdc sts), popcorn, skip 2 sts, fpdc x 2, fpdc x 2 around the posts of the skipped sts (working them infront of the posts of the previous 2 fpdc sts), bpdc x 2, hdc x 2 .. Refer to the video tutorial at 4:49 for illustration.
Row 3: Ch 1, turn, hdc x 2, fpdc x 2, bpdc x 2, hdc x 5, bpdc x 2, fpdc x 2, hdc x 2
Row 4: Ch 1, turn, hdc x 2, bpdc x 2, fpdc x 2, hdc, popcorn, hdc, popcorn, hdc, fpdc x 2, bpdc x 2, hdc x 2

In the video, I worked row 5 just for the fact that in row 2 we were working around hdc posts throughout the row while in row 4 we have front and back posts stitches already made and we will be working around these posts. Otherwise the repeat of stitches is still the same.

Now, if you want to make more than one unit side by side, you need to change the foundation chain to a multiple of 15 + 2. The pattern will be followed as explained earlier until you reach the last 2 stitches (hdc x 2 at the end of each row) which will be skipped.

Terms:
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