Welcome to week 37 of the FrankenScrap crochet along, the ugliest and scrappiest crochet pattern that you ever did see!

Over the next 49 weeks, we are going to be making 53 different crochet stitches, each in a different piece of this patchwork blanket. The FrankenScrap was designed as a scrap project, so dive into your yarn stash and clear out those odds and ends that you’ve just not been sure what to do with.

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The FrankenScrap 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 add 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.

Week 37 Of The FrankenScrap Crochet Along

Our next piece of the FrankenScrap crochet along is made with the Caramel stitch. For this piece you will need a total of 34 meters of DK / Light Worsted yarn in 2 different colours. I used DMC Petra in 2 different colours for this piece, a 100% mercerised cotton yarn. It is a lovely silky yarn that is a bit on the thin side for a DK yarn but it does look good and just glides over your hook as you use it.

I also used a 4 mm hook – 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.

The Caramel stitch is a fabulously pretty stitch, but it is a single crochet based stitch and works up slowly. It is a lovely stitch to choose as an accent stitch on a larger piece, or even as an edging for blankets or clothing to give a plain stitch a decorative finish.

Week 37FrankenScrap Pattern

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You will need a total of 34 meters of yarn for this piece if you are sticking to my gauge of 16sc in 10cm, 19 rows in 10cm

Abbreviations

• Ch = Chain
• St = Stitch
• Sp = Space
• YO = Yarn Over
• Sc = Single Crochet

Start by making a foundation chain of 54 with a 4mm hook, or whichever hook size you used for week 2’s Single Crochet piece.

Row 1. In the 3rd ch from your hook make a sc (your turning ch counts as the first st of the row). Make a sc in each chain across – 53sc

Rows 2 and 3. Turn and ch1. Make a sc in the first st and in every stitch across the row. At the end of Row 3, switch colour in the last sc.

Row 4. Turn and ch1. Make a sc in the first st. *Make a Caramel Stitch – YO, insert your hook into the next st, YO and insert your hook into the st directly below in the previous row (see picture below for where to place your hook). YO, insert your hook into the st directly below the last one. YO and pull through all the loops on your hook.

Make a sc in the next st* Repeat between *and* – 26 Caramel stitches

Row 5. Turn and ch1. Make a sc in the first st and in each st across – 53 sc

Rows 6-15. Repeat rows 2-5

Joining Your Pieces

Your finished piece should be 53 stitches wide and 15 rows high, which counts as 15 stitches high for joining purposes since you have all sc rows. You can see how the pieces are joined together here. If you are following my gauge, then your piece will measure 33cm wide and 8cm high. Remember this is just a size indication and if your gauge is consistent throughout, then your pieces will fit together nicely even if your sizes do not match with mine.

The Caramel piece should be joined below week 37’s Feather stitch piece, leaving 20 stitches of the Feather piece unattached. You will also join the right hand edge to the last 2 stitches of the Honeycomb piece and the first 13 stitches of the Undulating Cable stitch piece.

The layout below shows how your pieces should be attached in relation to each other.

Click here to see how to join your pieces with the single crochet join. They should line up stitch for stitch using the counts stated above.

Once you have joined this weeks Caramel stitch piece to the previous pieces, that is it for week 37 of the FrankenScrap crochet along, I’ll be back next Friday for week 38 and the next piece of your CAL at 8pm UK time.

In the meantime, why not come and join our Facebook group – Froggity Frog’s Ribbit And Stitch and show us your completed Single Crochet pieces. Our super friendly community where you can ask all of your crochet questions, share your latest make and connect with your fellow FrankenScrappers and make new crochet friends. Come join us now right here and join in the conversation.