Friday 14 December 2012

African Flowers

This week we crocheted the traditional South African flower pattern. I can't seem to find a pattern in UK terms so I've taken this pattern  and just changed the terms used. I hope we did it right from memory yesterday!


Pattern:
Starting Round – sl knot, ch 5, ss into first ch to make a ring.
Rounnd 1 – ch 3, 1 treble, ch1, *2 treble, ch1, * repeat until you have six spaces and six 2trebles. ss to the 3rd chain of the beginning round. fo
Round 2 – Change color: Start in a space. ch 5, 2 treble in same space, *ch1, 2 treble, ch2, 2 treble in next space – repeat * 5 times, 1 treble and ss into the 3rd ch of the beginning round.
Round 3 – ch3, treble6 in the 2-ch space, ch1, * treble7 in next 2-ch space, ch1, repeat * 5 times. ss the 3rd ch of the beginning round. fo.
Rnd 4 – New color: ch1, double crochet around and make a long treble stitch down in round 2 between each flower petal. End with ss. fo.
Rnd 5 – new colour: chain 3, treble around treble increase (2 treble) in corners to  keep hexagon shape