Welcome to week 3 of the Wall Of Stitches Crochet Along!

Over the next 25 weeks, we are going to be making 48 different crochet stitches, each in a different piece of this brick work like blanket. We will be adding a border to each individual piece before joining the pieces together. We will be making 2 pieces each week, 1 small 1 large.

With this crochet along I feel like I’ve gone more back towards the style of my very first crochet along – The 50 Stitches. With regular predictable sized pieces that all fit together neatly in rows – sort of, I had to give it a bit of twist with the stacked edges.

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The Wall Of Stitches is a completely free crochet along. Each week the next piece of the pattern will be published on my blog, but if you want the concise and ad free pdf delivered to you each week that will remain in your Ravelry library, you can purchase that for just £5 here. This is a one off payment that covers the entirety of this CAL.

If you want to prep ahead, you can find out how much yarn you need for each week here as well as the layout and where each piece will fit.

For this pattern I chose to use LoveCrafts own brand yarn PaintBox 100% Cotton Aran. I love how vibrant the colours are in this range and how many different shades there are to choose from – 63 at last count! The cotton is unmercerised meaning that you can see the individual strands of cotton and it can split when using it. But as far as cottons go it is lovely to use and I didn’t find splitting too much of an issue.

But if you’re looking for a yarn to use that has lots of colours to choose from and doesn’t split, there is PaintBox simply aran, a 100% acrylic yarn that has the same 63 shades as the cotton range. Other yarn ranges that would suit are Caron Simply Soft and Stylecraft Special Aran. But you can use any Aran or Worsted Weight yarn for the Wall Of Stitches.

I also used a 4.5 mm hook for the whole pattern – I recommend using Clover Amour hooks. A cost effective hook that is comfortable in your hands thanks to their ergonomic design, so doesn’t make your hands tired when crocheting for long periods of time. I love my Clover hooks and although I own several different hook brands, I inevitably end up going back and using my trusty Clovers.

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Week 3 Of The Wall Of Stitches Crochet Along

This week we’re going to be starting our next row of our blanket. You can put the row we finished last week to one side until we finish this next one. We’re starting row 2 with a small piece which is the opposite of how we started our first row.

This week we’re making the Small Basketweave and the Trinity stitches, both of which are new stitches for me. I haven’t yet used these in any of my patterns, but I have used other variations of the Basketweave stitch before.

Piece 5 – Small Basketweave

There are many variations of the Basketweave stitch, but all of them are made with front and back post stitches. This is a small version of the Basketweave, but not the smallest – that would be the Mini Basketweave stitch.

I used the shade Marine Blue (634) from Lovecrafts 100% Cotton Aran range for this piece.

Click here for the left hand video

You will need a total of 29 meters (32 yards) of yarn for this piece if you are sticking to my gauge of 15dc in 10cm and 9 rows of dc in 10cm using a 4.5mm hook.

Abbreviations

• St = Stitch
• Ch = Chain
• Dc = Double Crochet
• Fpdc = Front Post Double Crochet
• Bpdc = Back Post Double Crochet

Start by making a foundation chain of 32

Row 1. In the 4th ch from your hook make a dc (your turning ch counts as the first st of the row). Make a dc each st across – 30dc

Row 2. Turn and ch1. Make a dc turning ch in the first st. *Make a fpdc in each of the next 2 st then make a bpdc in the next 2 st* 

repeat between *and* making a dc in the last st of the row – 30st

Row 3. Repeat row 2

Row 4. Turn and ch1. Make a dc turning ch in the first st. *Make a bpdc in each of the next 2 st, and then make a fpdc in each of the next 2 st* repeat between *and* making a dc in the last st of the row.

Row 5. Repeat row 4

Row 6. Repeat row 2.

Row 7. Repeat row 2

Now we need to add a border around your piece. 

For the left hand border video click here

For the right hand border video click here

Round 1. Using your background colour, make a standing single crochet into any stitch. Make a single crochet in each stitch across the top and bottom, and into each row down the sides make 2 single crochet. When you get to the corners add an extra stitch into the corner – you will have 14 sc down each side and 65 across the top, plus 1 extra sc in each corner – you will have 14 sc down each side and 65 across the top, plus 1 extra sc in each corner.

When you get back to your 1st st, slst into it – 102st

Rounds 2 and 3. Ch1 and make a sc into the first st of the previous round. Make a sc in each st around. When you get to the extra corner stitch, make 3 sc in that st. When you get back to the 1st st of the round, slst into it.

When you finish round 3, cut off and weave in your ends. Round 3 should have 126st in total, with 18 sc down each short side, plus that extra sc in each corner

This is your first piece of your next strip.

Piece 6 – Trinity

The Trinity stitch is a beautiful crochet stitch that looks similar to the Star stitch, except it is entirely single crochet based. It is an easy 1 row repeating stitch that is hole free and that never fails to look stunning.

For this piece I used shade Pillar Red (615) of LoveCrafts PaintBox 100% Cotton Aran.

Click here for the left hand video

You will need a total of 67 meters (73 yards) of yarn for this piece if you are sticking to my gauge of 15dc in 10cm and 9 rows of dc in 10cm using a 4.5mm hook.

Abbreviations

• Ch = Chain
• St = Stitch
• Sc = Single Crochet
• Sc3tog = Single Crochet Three Together

Start by making a foundation chain of 66

Row 1. In the 2nd ch from your hook make a sc *Starting in the same ch that you finished your last st make a sc3tog over 3 ch and then ch1* repeat between *and* making a sc in the last ch of the row which is also the same st that you finished your last sc3tog in – 65st

Row 2. Turn and ch1. Make a sc in the first st. *Starting in the same st that you finished your last st make a sc3tog over the next 3 st (in the ch1sp and in the top of the sc3tog) then ch1* repeat between *and* after the last sc3tog of the row DON’T ch1, making a sc in the last st of the row which is also the same st that you finished your last sc3tog in – 65st

Rows 3 – 14. Repeat row 2.

Now we need to add a border around your piece. 

For the left hand border video click here

For the right hand border video click here

Round 1. Using your background colour, make a standing single crochet into any stitch. Make a single crochet in each stitch across the top and bottom, and into each row down the sides. When you get to the corners add an extra stitch into the corner – you will have 14 sc down each side and 65 across the top, plus 1 extra sc in each corner.

When you get back to your 1st st, slst into it – 162 sc in total

Rounds 2 and 3. Ch1 and make a sc into the first st of the previous round. Make a sc in each st around. When you get to the extra corner stitch, make 3 sc in that st. When you get back to the 1st st of the round, slst into it.

When you finish round 3, cut off and weave in your ends. Round 3 should have 186 sc in total, with 18 sc down each short side, plus that extra sc in each corner.

Now you need to join the left hand edge of your Trinity piece to the right hand edge of the Small Basketweave using the Flat Braid join. You can see how to do that here.

These 2 pieces make up the first half of your 2nd row of the Wall Of Stitches blanket. Next week we will be making the other 2 pieces that complete this row and then you will be joining our first two rows together.

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