Floret Stitch
Well hello everyone!! Hope you have all had a good week. It’s been our last week of the Easter holidays and we’ve definitely had some fun. I have loved having my girl at home with me!! We have not ventured out much, but made the most of no school runs!! It’s been great spending time with her, whilst the little one is asleep! You can’t beat a bit of painting or lego building, but it does seems to end up that I do the building and she plays with the bits I’ve finished! Haha, I don’t mind to be honest!!
We’ve had a rather successful week of finding smile stones. Not sure if you have heard of them, but they are great fun. They are painted stones that are being hidden mainly in Staffordshire, but I think all over the country now, you can find them and publish them on their Facebook page! Can’t wait to make our own!
So my lovely friend’s daughter came up to me the other day with the outline of her foot. It was so sweet. I said I would write the pattern for children’s slipper socks for her Mum to crochet! I have already made my daughter some, so just needed to adapt the pattern. Hoping to share the pattern on here soon. It’s going to have 3 sizes ranging from a 9 to a size 3. It will then link on to the adults slipper sizes. My niece is a size 3, which is lucky, so making her a pair. Loving the colours from the amazing West Yorkshire Spinners range. Think these are going to be the watermelon design!!
Right so we had better get onto the blanket. This week it is a beautiful stitch called the Floret Stitch. It’s combines different heights of stitches to create a pretty cool pattern! It’s usually made up of two different rows, so if you ever use it for something else, make sure you have an even number of rows.
Supplies –
So this week I have carried on with the seaside theme and used a light grey, hopefully resembling where the water breaks into waves. The wool I have used is from a lovely range called Millamia. It’s merino wool and is incredibly soft and lovely to work with. Hoping to use more of it in the blanket.
As always I have used about 30/40g of double knit wool. Remember you can use any kind of yarn, just make sure it’s double knit weight. Don’t forget your blunt ended tapestry needle and scissors.
Stitches –
Chain stitch (ch) – To make a chain, place the yarn over the hook then pull it through the loop on your hook.
Slip stitch (ss) – This is where there is no height to the stitch. It’s usually used to join rounds. So insert the hook into the front of the stitch you are joining to. This is usually the first stitch you made in that round/row. So yarn over hook and pull through that first stitch then also through the loop on your hook.
Treble (tr) – To make a treble crochet, firstly yarn over your hook, insert through space/stitch, yarn over your hook, pull back through space/stitch. There should now be 3 loops on your hook. Then yarn over hook and pull through the first two loops, yarn over hook and pull through the last two loops.
Decrease by 2 treble crochet (2trtog) – So start off by yarn over your hook, then insert into the stitch. Yarn over your hook and pull through. (3 loops) then yarn over your hook and pull through the first 2 loops then yarn over your hook and insert through the next stitch, yarn over your hook and pull through. (4 loops) Then yarn over and pull through the first 2, then yarn over your hook and pull through the last 3 loops.
Ok so here we go …
1 – So you are starting with your blanket on the right side. Attach your new yarn and chain 3. Then work 1tr into the same stitch. Now during this row, we are going to reduce the stitch count again to the original 200 stitches. So we need to reduce it by 3 stitches. So you are going to work a 2trtog at the beginning of the row, one in the middle and one at the end. So firstly work 1 2trtog stitch and then carry on with 1tr in each stitch. If you are unsure of how to work a 2trtog stitch, please refer to the stitch information above.
Once you are roughly in the middle of the blanket, work your second 2trtog stitch. Once again carry on working 1tr stitches into your row. Finally with 3 stitches to go, work the last 2trtog stitch and then finally work 1tr in the last stitch. This finishes your first row and your stitch count is now back to 200. (200)
2 – Turn your blanket and chain 1. Then miss this first stitch and *work 1tr into the next stitch, then slip stitch into the next stitch.*
Repeat ** across the row.
Make sure you don’t work the slip stitches too tight as you will need to be able to crochet into this stitch in the next row. (200)
3 – Ok so turn your blanket and chain 3. (This counts as 1tr) Work 1tr into the same stitch this time.
*Now work 1tr into the slip stitch and 1tr into the next stitch.* Repeat ** across the row.
The last stitch is worked into the chain 3 stitch from the row below. (200)
And there you have it – the Floret Stitch. Let me know if you have any questions.
Happy hooking everyone!
🌈Xx