Welcome to week 40 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 40 Of The FrankenScrap Crochet Along

Our next piece of the FrankenScrap crochet along is made with the Paired Half Double Crochet stitch. For this piece you will need a total of 130 meters of DK / Light Worsted yarn. I used Rico Cotton Essentials DK for this piece in 3 different colours. This piece doesn’t need different colours, but by the time I came to making this piece I’d run down my stash enough that I didn’t have enough of a single colour left to only use 1 colour. Rico Cotton Essentials DK is one of my go too yarns, and I have several balls of it in my stash. It’s 100% cotton and is lovely and silky and soft to the touch. It is a really nice cotton to work with and doesn’t split overly much.

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 Paired Hdc is an easy stitch to make, and just by the nature of how the stitch is made it does create small holes between the stitches, but the stitches themselves are quite thick. So this stitch would suit projects that you need to be warm but breathable such as autumn sweaters or bodywarmers and the like.

Week 40 FrankenScrap Pattern

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You will need a total of 130 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
• YO = Yarn Over
• Hdc = Half Double Crochet
• Hdc2Tog = Half Double Crochet 2 Together

Start by making a foundation chain of 50 with a 4mm hook

Row 1. In the 3rd and 4th ch from your hook make a hdc2tog (yo, insert your hook into the 1st st and pull up a loop. Yo, insert your hook into the next st and pull up a loop – gives you 5 loops on your hook. Yo and pull through all loops) 

*working in the same st that you finished your last st, make a hdc2tog in that st and the next st* repeat between *and* – 48st

Row 2. Turn and make a hdc in the first st (this counts as your 1st st) Working in your 1st and 2nd st make a hdc2tog *working in the same st as your last one, make a hdc2tog in that st and the next st* repeat between *and* the turning chain from the row below counts as your last st of the row – 48 st

Rows 3 – 26. Repeat row 2

Joining Your Pieces

Your finished piece should be 48 stitches wide and 26 rows high, which counts as 39 stitches high for joining purposes since you have all hdc rows. You can see how the pieces are joined together here. If you are following my gauge, then your piece will measure 30cm wide and 20.5cm 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 Paired hdc piece should be joined to the remaining stitches on the bottom edge of week 11’s Undulating wave piece and to the bottom right 30 stitches of week 39’s Floating Clusters Stitch piece. The right hand edge will also be joined to week 24’s Crossed Double stitch piece and the first top 5 stitches of week 25’s Modern Granny 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 Paired hdc stitch piece to the previous pieces, that is it for week 40 of the FrankenScrap crochet along, I’ll be back next Friday for week 41 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.