Welcome to week 42 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 42 Of The FrankenScrap Crochet Along

Our next piece of the FrankenScrap crochet along is made with the Falling Leaves stitch. For this piece you will need a total of 12 meters of DK / Light Worsted yarn. I used Rico Essentials Cotton DK for this piece, a 100% cotton yarn that keeps appearing in my stash. I like this brand of yarn a lot as it’s lovely and silky, has a great colour range to choose from and is a good price compared to other brands of cotton.

You will see Rico Essentials Cotton DK being used in a number of pieces in this CAL, as I have lots of part balls of this and single balls of a colour from the collection. It was simply time to get these odd balls of this lovely to use yarn used up.

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 Falling Leaves stitch creates a pretty texture to your fabric that can really make an otherwise plain piece pop. It would be an ideal stitch to use for clothing, especially more showy pieces like dresses, skirts or your new favourite going out top. You can change the number of stitches between each Falling Leaf stitch so that you can have the accents more tightly together, or further apart as you choose.

Week 42 FrankenScrap Pattern

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You will need a total of 12 meters of yarn for this piece if you are sticking to my gauge of 16sc in 10cm, 19 rows in 10cm

Abbreviations

• Ch = Chain
• Sk = Skip
• St = Stitch
• YO = Yarn Over
• Sc = Single Crochet
• Dc = Double crochet

Start by making a foundation chain of 29 with a 4mm hook.

Row 1. In the 4th ch from your hook make a dc (the turning ch counts as the first st of the row). Make a dc in each st across – 27 st

Row 2. Turn and ch1. Make a sc in the first st and then make a sc in each st across – 27 st

Row 3. Turn and ch1. Make a dc turning ch in the first st and then make a dc in each of the next 3 st. *Make a Falling Leaf stitch – YO, insert your hook around the post of the dc 2 rows below. YO and pull up a loop (3 loops on your hook)

YO and insert your hook back around the same post, YO and pull up a loop (5 loops on your hook). 

YO and pull through 4 loops on your hook and then YO and pull through the last 2 loops.

Make a dc in the next 3 st* Repeat between *and* making a dc in the last 2 st – 6 Falling Leaves Stitches

Row 4. Turn and ch1. Make a sc in the first st and then make a sc in each st across – 27 st

Row 5. Turn and ch1. Make a dc turn ch in the first st and then make a dc in the next st. *Make a Falling Leaf stitch

Make a dc in each of the next 3 st* Repeat between *and* making a dc in each of the last 4 st – 6 Falling Leaf stitches

Rows 6 – 8. repeat rows 2-5

Joining Your Pieces

Your finished piece should be 27 stitches wide and 8 rows high, which counts as 12 stitches high for joining purposes since you have sc and dc rows. You can see how the pieces are joined together here. If you are following my gauge, then your piece will measure 16.5cm wide and 6.5cm 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 Falling Leaves piece should be joined to the bottom right 27 stitches of week 40’s Paired HDC stitch piece. It will also be joined to the left hand edge of week 25’s Modern Granny piece and the top 5 stitches of week 26’s Little Waves 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 Falling Leaves stitch piece to the previous pieces, that is it for week 42 of the FrankenScrap crochet along, I’ll be back next Friday for week 43 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.