A gift.

Batik from India

Saturday, December 25, 2010

neck warmer

Stitch explanations
FPDC : yarn over hook, insert hook behind stitch below : go from the front of the work, behind the stitch and back out to the front of the work so you are crocheting around the post of the stitch. Yarn over, pull through, finish as a normal double crochet
BPDC: similar to FPDC but go from the back of the work around the front of the stitch.
Pattern
Chain 30
DC in 4th chain from hook (counts as a dc) dc in next 27 ch. (28 stitches)
ROW 1: Ch2 (counts as a stitch) FPDC round 2nd 3rd and 4th stitches * BPDC next 4 stitch, FPDC next 4 stitch. Repeat from * to end
ROW 2 Ch2 (counts as a stitch) BPDC round 2nd 3rd and 4th stitches * FPDC next 4 stitch, BPDC next 4 stitch. Repeat from * to end
Repeat row 1
Repeat the sequence
ROW 1
ROW 2
ROW 1
20 times.
Then repeat row 1
Next row : buttonhole row a: ch 2 BPDC x3 (FPDCx4, BPDCx4) twice. FPDCx1 ch2 fPDCx1 BPDCx4
Next row: button hole row b : ch2 FPDCx3 BPDCx1 sc into chain space x2, (FPDCx4, BPDCx4) twice
Repeat rows 1, 2, 1
Repeat row 1, buttonhole row a, buttonhole row b
Repeat rows 1, 2, 1
Repeat row 1, buttonhole row a, buttonhole row b.
Repeat rows 1, 2, 1
Fasten off, sew in ends and attach buttons along cast on edge to fasten as shown.

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