Spin your colors, crochet the square, share it in the garden. Free.
A year-long blanket of 168 Daisy Squares. Spin the wheel for each square's colors, crochet along with Andrea (she's on square 1), and add every square to the garden. Free, at your own pace.
How it works
1
Spin your colors
The color wheel picks a center, petals and background for each square. Use what's in your stash.
2
Crochet your Daisy Square
Follow Andrea's video, or the written pattern below.
3
Join it on and share it
Join each square to your blanket as you go, then add it to the garden.
Weeks 1 to 50: 3 squares a week, with 18 weeks of 4. Weeks 51 and 52: add the border and finish your blanket.
Videos
Make the Daisy SquareJoin your squares
Choose one yarn color just for joining and set it aside. The slip-stitch joins show a little, so the same joining color all the way through ties the blanket together.
Written pattern
Yarn:
4-ply cotton in your colors, plus one color set aside for joining
Skill level: Intermediate · Terms: US crochet terms · Finished size: about 7 x 7 in (17.7 x 17.7 cm)
Beginning ch-3 counts as 1 dc, beginning ch-4 counts as 1 tr, and beginning ch-1 counts as 1 sc where indicated. Colors B and C are alternated without fastening off until instructed. Keep the inactive yarn at the front and work the background chains behind the petals.
Color A is the flower center, Color B the petals and Color C the background.
Row 1: Flower center (Color A)
Stitch count: 8 hdc.
Row 2: Flower center, increase row (Color A)
Stitch count: 16 sc.
Row 3: Petal base (Color B)
Stitch count: 8 groups of 3 dc, separated by ch-1 spaces.
Row 4: Background foundation (Color C)
Work into the stitches of Row 2, keeping the new stitches in front of Row 3.
Stitch count: 16 dc and 16 ch-4 spaces.
Row 5: Petal expansion (Color B)
Pick up Color B. Keep the ch-4 loops from Row 4 behind the petals.
Stitch count: 8 groups of 4 dc, separated by ch-2 spaces.
Row 6: Background expansion (Color C)
Pick up Color C, working into the dc stitches of Row 4.
Stitch count: 16 groups of 2 dc, separated by ch-4 spaces.
Row 7: Petal expansion (Color B)
Pick up Color B, keeping the background ch-4 loops behind the petals.
Stitch count: 8 groups of 5 dc, separated by ch-2 spaces.
Row 8: Petal edging (Color B)
Continue with Color B.
Stitch count: 8 finished scalloped petals.
Row 9: Background (Color C)
Pick up Color C. Work into the stitches of Row 6 and the ch-4 spaces behind the petals.
Stitch count: 112 dc.
Row 10: Forming the square (Color C)
Continue with Color C. Each corner is (2 tr, ch 2, 2 tr); the sides are shaped with tr, dc, hdc and sc.
Row 11: Square border (Color C)
Continue with Color C.
If your square doesn't measure 7 x 7 in, add one more row. It can be sc, hdc, dc or tr, depending on how much bigger it needs to be.
