Well hello my lovely ones, how are we all? We have finally had a kind of illness free weekend! Yey! So relieved! Still a spot of snot, but I can cope with that! I really hate when any of my three are ill. The whole makeup of the house seems to be thrown. Heyho. We are definitely all on the mend now! Yey! So I have been carrying on with my 4ply Advent Wrapdigan! I am loving how Abby’s yarn is working up! The 4ply is so different to the DK! So nice to see how different they work up.

I really hope you are enjoying the CAL. I know I am. Not long to go now. Few more stages and we are nearly there.

Now, as with all my patterns, they are all here for you to enjoy. And in exchange for these patterns, I would be very grateful if you could give, however little, a donation to our chosen charity Child Bereavement UK. Here’s the link to the Just Giving Page. 

https://www.justgiving.com/page/pippa-morris-1666714185876

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Level – Medium (There are a few new stitches and techniques)

Yarn – 600g 4ply Advent Yarn (24 colours) with 1 x 100g skein of grey yarn. 

I have used Abby’s gorgeous 2022 4ply Advent Yarn. Here’s the link to her website. 

Hook

4mm crochet hook

Notions –

Scissors, darning needle for ends, set of weighing scales, blocking tiles and pins

Finished size –

Wingspan – 100cm 

Centre spine depth – 90cm

Abbreviations – 

mr – Magic Ring 

ch – Chain

chsp – Chain Space 

dc – Double Crochet 

sk – Slip Knot 

htr – Half Treble Crochet

blhtr – Back Loop Half Treble Crochet

tr – Treble Crochet

bltr –Back Loop Treble Crochet 

dtr – Double treble Crochet 

pf – Puff Stitch – [Yrh, insert hook where required, draw through a loop] repeat 4 times in the same place. You now have nine loops on the hook. Yrh and pull through all the loops on the hook.

rp – Rope Stitch – Crochet 1tr, 1ch, 1tr in same chsp or stitch.

dtr – Double Treble Crochet

bpdc – Back Post Double Crochet 

dcsp – Double Crochet Spike Stitch 

Changing colours tips – 

Half treble change – yarn over your hook, insert in the stitch and pull through (3 loops on your hook.) Yarn over your hook and then place your new yarn over the hook as well and pull both through the 3 loops to finish the htr stitch. Then with your next stitch, just use your new yarn. 

Treble Stitch change – yarn over your hook, insert in the stitch and pull through (3 loops on your hook.) Yarn over your hook and pull through 2 loops, then yarn over your hook and place your new yarn over the hook as well and pull both through the last 2 loops to finish the tr stitch. Then with your next stitch, just use your new yarn.

Right let’s get down to business…

So this week it’s all about sewing up our mini square mandalas and attaching them to the main mandala. It’s an important part of your wrap, as it creates the centre of the wrap. After this it will be creating the border and the turning the wrap into a rectangle.

Assembly Part 2 –

With your large square mandala in the middle, place your mini mandalas around the edge and work out your positioning of each colour. Mine are in a gradient rainbow, well you know I have a thing for rainbow!! 

So you should have 7 by 7 squares, with the main mandala in the middle. To sew two squares together, use a 4mm crochet hook and a small amount of yarn of one of the colours of the squares you are working on. With the right sides together, align the stitches up and using a crochet hook work 1dc stitch through both 3chsp and then into back loops only of the crochet stitches. Once you have finished in the last 3chsp, fasten off your yarn. This will give you a neat line of stitches in between the squares. Don’t forget that the 4 corner squares, will have two edges sew on and remember you are crocheting them together in order, so keep checking your colours. Once you have finished, your squares will be sew together like a picture frame. 

Round 32 – Attaching your main square mandala to your squares. 

Use you grey yarn. 

As there are 100 stitches on each side of the main square mandala and there are 100 stitches on the 5 mini square mandalas that attach to the mandala, it is just a case of aligning them up correctly before you start to sew them together. So with right sides facing each other, align one of the 4 corners of the main mandala and the inside corner of your sewn up squares. Insert your hook into 3chsp of the first mini square mandala and then the back loop of the first dc (after the 2chsp corner) and work 1ch and 1dc. [Then work 1bldc in each stitch along the row of both the mini square mandalas and main mandala to sew them together. Work 1dc in each 3chsp when you come to them. Finishing with 1dc through the last 3chsp of the mini square mandala and back loop of the last dc on the main mandala. At the second corner, insert your hook through both the 2chsp on the main mandala and 3chsp corner of the last mini square mandala in the row and work 1dc to attach them together. (You can see here where the arrow is pointing.)

Then work 1dc in the 3chsp on the next square and the back loop of the main mandala stitch.] Repeat until you have all 4 sides of the main mandala attached to your squares, then Ss into the first dc and fasten off. 

Anyways, until next time. Don’t forget to shout if you have any questions.

Happy hooking.
🌈Xx

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