In the Yarn Garden CAL - Part 4, rounds 27 - 35

This is part 4 of In the Yarn Garden CAL. Lets work towards a square :)

Some of you might start to worry about the size of your finished cushion cover? In the last part (part 6 which is released 1:st of August) I will give you some tips on what to do if your cushion cover is to small or big and does not fit the size of a standard inner cushion.

But let's go on with part 4 now :)

© Charlotta Wadman, In the Yarn Garden, 2016. All rights reserved.

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Index

• Materials and Colors
• Abbreviations
• Instruction Symbols
• Special Stitches
• Instructions
• PDF download

Materials and colors

For this tutorial I am using the yarn Järbo Nova and a 3.00 mm crochet hook.


Colors used on part 4 rounds:

Round 27 - Natural
Round 28 - Natural
Round 29 - Yellow
Round 30 - Pistachio green
Round 31 - Natural
Round 32 - Pistachio green
Round 33 - Lime
Round 34 - Natural
Round 35 - Lime

You'll find more information about material and finished size in the introduction post.

Abbreviations

US terms used!

R	Round	Tr	Treble crochet
St, sts	Stitch, stitches	Blo	Back loop only
Ch	Chain	Fl	Front loop
Sl st	Slip stitch	Fp	Front post
Sc	Single crochet	Bp	Back post
Hdc	Half double crochet	Sk	Skip
Dc	Double crochet

Instruction symbols

** – Repeat instructions between asterisks the amount of times specified.
      This repeat will consist of multiple instructions.

[] – Repeat instructions between brackets the amount of times specified.
       This is a lower level repeat than ** !

() – Instructions inside parentheses are made in the same stitch.

Hint: Hints are written in blue.

{image 1} – Image reference.

Special stitches, part 4

Shell stitch (shell st) - Sk 2 st's, 5 dc in next st {image 1 and 2}, sk 2 st's, sc in next st {image 3}.

Shell st

Front post treble crochet (fptr) :
Yarn over twice {image 1}, insert hook from front to back around post of specified st {image 2}, yarn over and pull up a loop, *yarn over and draw through 2 loops on hook*, repeat *to* 3 times {image 3}.

fptr

Front post treble crochet two together (fptr2tog) :

Yarn over twice, insert hook from front to back around post of specified st, yarn over and pull up a loop (4 loops on hook), *yarn over and pull through 2 loops on hook* repeat * to * 2 times (2 loops on hook), yarn over twice and insert your hook from front to back around post of the second specified st, yarn over and pull up a loop (5 loops on hook), *yarn over and pull through 2 loops on hook* repeat * to * 2 times (3 loops on hook), yarn over and pull through all 3 loops.

Standing stitches –  You'll find a great tutorial on how to crochet standing stitches here.

Instructions

Round 27

This round is worked in the back loop only, BLO!

Note: The first stitch on this round will decide where your corners will end up! You are of course free to start in a different st, following my suggestion will make every other of the lonely tr's on r19 point at the corners of the cushion cover.

Start in a st, a little to the right, above a lonely tr from r19 {image 1}. Ch 1 (counts as 1 sc) or make a standing sc {image 1}. Sc in the next 7 st {image 2}.

* Hdc in 6 next st's {image 3}, dc in 2 next st's {image 4}, (dc, ch 1, dc) in next st {image 5}, dc in 2 next st's, hdc in next 6 st's {image 6}, sc in next 13 st's {image 7}*

Repeat from * to * 8 times, omitting the last 8 sc on the last repeat.

Join to the beginning ch-1 or standing sc with a sl st. Fasten off and weave in ends {image 8}.

Stitch count: 248 st's ( 104 sc, 96 hdc, 48 dc), and 8 ch-1 spaces.

Hint: The ch-1 space will be placed a little to the left compared to the middle of the 2 dc clusters on r22, see image 5.

Round 27

Round 28

Note! To make it clearer I have used a different colour in the first 7 images.

Start in any ch-1 space . Ch 1 (counts as 1 sc) or make a standing sc {image 1}.
Make 1 hdc in the same st {image 2}.

* (hdc, dc) in the next st {image 3}, dc in the 29 next st's {image 4}, (dc, hdc) in the next st, (hdc, sc) in next ch-1 space {image 5}, sc in 31 next st's {image 6}, (sc, hdc) in next ch-1 space {image 7}*

Repeat from * to * 4 times, omitting the last (sc, hdc) on the last repeat.

Join to the beginning ch-1 or standing sc with a sl st.
Fasten off and weave in ends {image 8}.

Stitch count: 272 st's, (132 sc, 16 hdc, 124 dc).

Round 28

Round 29

This round is worked in the back loop only, BLO!

Start in any st. Ch 1 (counts as 1 sc) or make a standing sc{image 1}. Sc in each st around.

Join to the beginning ch-1 or standing sc with a sl st.
Fasten off and weave in ends {image 2}.

Stitch count: 272 sc.

Round 29

Round 30

Start in an sc made in the first of 31 dc on r28 {image 1}.
Ch 1 (counts as 1 sc) or make a standing sc {image 1}.

* Make 5 shell st's {image 2, 3, 4 and 5}, sc in 38 next st's {image 6}. *

Repeat from * to * 4 times, omitting the last sc on the last repeat.

Join to the beginning ch-1 or standing sc with a sl st.
Fasten off and weave in ends {image 7}.

Stitch count: 272 st's (172 sc, 100 dc) or (152 sc, 20 shell st).

Round 30

Round 31

Start in 4:th sc before a shell st. Ch 1 (counts as 1 sc) or make a standing sc {image 1}.

* Make 6 shell st's {image 2 and 3}, sc in 4 next st's {image 4}, [tr in the fl of st on r28 (below to the left, it's the fl of the 6:th sc done after the ch-1 space {image 4, 5 and 6}), sk 1 st, sc in next 2 st's {image 7}, tr in the same fl of st on r28 {image 8}, sk 1 st, sc in next 2 st's {image 9}] repeat 4 times {image 10}, sc in 4 next st's {image 11}.*

Repeat from * to * 4 times, omitting the last sc on the last repeat.

Join to the beginning ch-1 or standing sc with a sl st.
Fasten off and weave in ends {image 12}.

Stitch count: 272 st's (120 sc, 120 dc , 32 tr) or (96 sc, 32 tr, 24 shell st).

Hint: There should be 5 st on r28 in between the tips of the zig-zag pattern.

Round 31

Round 31

Round 32

Start in the third dc of the first shell st on one of the short sides.
Ch 1 (counts as 1 sc) or make a standing sc {image 1}.

* Make 5 shell st's {image 2 and 3}, sc in 38 next st's {image 4}. *

Repeat from * to * 4 times, omitting the last sc on the last repeat.

Join to the beginning ch-1 or standing sc with a sl st.
Fasten off and weave in ends {image 5}.

Stitch count: 272 st's (172 sc, 100 dc) or (152 sc, 20 shell st).

Round 32

Round 33

Note! To make it clearer I have used a different colour in the first 4 images.

Start in the third dc of the first shell st on one of the short sides.

Ch 1 (counts as 1 sc) or make a standing sc {image 1}.

* Make 4 shell st's {image 2 and 3}, sc in 44 next st's {image 4}. *

Repeat from * to * 4 times, omitting the last sc on the last repeat.

Join to the beginning ch-1 or standing sc with a sl st.
Fasten off and weave in ends {image 5}.

Stitch count: 272 st's (192 sc, 80 dc) or (176 sc, 16 shell st).

Round 33

Round 34

Start in the third dc of the first shell st on one of the short sides. Ch 2 (counts as 1 hdc) or make a standing hdc {image 1}. Hdc in next st {image 2}.

* [dc in 3 next st's, hdc in 3 next st's] repeat 3 times {image 3}, (dc, ch 1, dc) in the same st as last hdc {image 4}, dc in next 2 st's, hdc in next 3 st's {image 5}, sc in next 6 st's {image 6}, fptr around post of tr from r31 (below to the left) {image 6,7 and 8}, sk 1 st, sc in next 5 st's {image 9},[make a fptr2tog with one leg around post of tr (below to the right) from r31 and one leg around post of tr (below to the left) from r31 {image 10}, sk 1 st, sc in the next 5 st's] repeat 3 times, fptr around the tr (below to the right) from r31 {image 11}, sk 1 st, sc in next 6 st's {image 12}, hdc in next 3 st's, dc in next 2 st's {image 13}, (dc, ch 1, dc, hdc) in next st {image 14}, hdc in next 2 st's*

Repeat from * to * 4 times, omitting the last 2 hdc on the last repeat.

Join to the second st of the beginning ch-2 or to the standing hdc with a sl st.
Fasten off and weave in ends {image 15}.

Stitch count: 288 st's (128 sc, 72 hdc, 68 dc, 8 fptr, 12 fptr2tog) and 8 ch-1 spaces.

Round 34

Round 34

Round 35

Start in a ch-1 space in the beginning of a long side.
Ch 1 (counts as 1 sc) or make a standing sc {image 1}.

* Sc in 49 next st's {image 2}, 2 sc in next ch-1 space {image 3}, sc in next 23 st's {image 4}, 2 sc in next ch-1 space {image 5}*

Repeat from * to * 4 times, omitting the last sc on the last repeat.

Join to the beginning ch-1 or standing sc with a sl st. Fasten off and weave in ends {image 6}.

Stitch count: 304 sc.

Round 35

Congratulations!
You have completed the fourth part of In the Yarn Garden CAL ! :)

Approximate size after part 4: around 37 cm wide.

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