Easy Cluster Square

Thanks so much to Lion Brand yarn for supplying the yarn for this project and supporting our Crochet Along!

I am so excited to finally be able to share my first contribution to the CAL with you!

If you haven’t read about the CAL this is how it is going to work:

• Every weekday (Monday-Friday) a new pattern will be posted on one of our ten blogs
• Share your progress and post photos of your squares in our facebook group.
• At the end you’ll have twenty 12” squares easy to be pieced together into a beautiful afghan ready for Christmas
• We will be hosting a fabulous giveaway starting November 21. You could win Lion Brand yarn to make your own afghan, $100 CASH money, OR our COMPLETED AFGHAN! That’s right, lovely Alexis from Persia Lou is going to be piecing all of our squares together and shipping it out to one very lucky winner. :)

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And this is a quick preview of the squares, which will be coming along your way in the next couple of days:

Hopeful Honey – Persia Lou – Little Monkeys Crochet

Fiber Flux – Loopsan – One Dog Woof – Maybe Matilda

Dream a Little Bigger – Whistle & Ivy – Gleeful Things

So and now onto todays pattern :)

Easy Cluster Square

You’ll need:

• Lion Brand Wool Ease in dark rose heater, seaspray, natural heather and grey heather
• 6 mm/J hook
• tapestry needle

Abbreviations

ch= chain

sc= single crochet (US term); double crochet (dc, UK term)

dc = double crochet (US term); treble crochet (tr, UK term)

tr = treble crochet (US term); double treble crochet (dtr, UK term)

bo 2= 2 dc (tr) containing bobble stitch

bo 3 = 3 dc (tr) containing bobble stitch

bo over next 3 st = yo insert hook in 1st st pull loop yo pull through 2 loops yo insert hook into second stitch pull loop yo pull   through 2 loops yo insert hook into third stitch pull loop yo pull though 2 loops yo pull through all loops on hook

sl st = slip stitch

st= stitch(es)

In my patterns UK terms are always given in brackets.

Lets get started:

Make Magic ring, ch 3 (counts as first dc (tr) in your bobble stitch)

with A:

Round 1: bo3, ch1, six times, join

Round 2: ch 3 (counts as first dc (tr) in your bobble stitch) *bo3, ch1* in every st and ch st of previous round, join

with B:

Round 3: ch 1, *sc (dc) in bo3, 2 sc (dc) in ch space of previous round*, repeat from * around, join

with C:

Round 4: ch 2 (counts as first dc (tr)), dc in same st, *hdc (htr), sc (dc) in next 5 st, hdc (htr), 2 dc (tr) in next st, ch2, 2 dc (tr) in next st* 4 times omitting the last 2 dc (tr) in the last repeat, join

With D:

Round 5: standing dc (tr) in any corner space, dc (tr) in same space, *dc (tr) in next st, ch 1, *bo over next 3 st, ch 1*,3 times, dc (tr) in next st, 2 dc (tr) ch 2 2 dc (tr) in corner space*,4 times omitting the last 2 dc (tr) in the last repeat, join

With C:

Round 6: standing hdc (htr) in any corner space, hdc in same space, *hdc (htr) in next every st and ch space of previous round, 2 hdc (htr) ch 2 2 hdc (htr) in corner space*, 4 times omitting the last 2 hdc (htr) in the last repeat, join

With A:

Round 7: standing hdc (htr) in any corner space, hdc (htr) in same space, *hdc (htr) in next 2 st, *ch 1 skip 1 st, hdc (htr)*, 7 times, hdc (htr), 2 hdc (htr) ch 2 2 hdc (htr) in corner space* 4 times omitting the last 2 hdc (htr) in the last repeat, join

With B:

Round 8: standing dc (tr) in any corner space, dc (tr) in same space, *dc (tr) in next 4 st,*bo 2, ch1*, 7 times, dc (tr) in next 3 st, 2dc (tr) ch 2 2 dc (tr)*, 4 times omitting the last 2 dc (tr) in the last repeat, join

With C:

Round 9: standing dc (tr) in any corner space, dc (tr) in same space, *dc (tr) in every st and ch space of previous round, 2 dc (tr) ch 2, 2 dc (tr) in corner space* 4 times omitting the last 2 dc (tr) in hte last repeat, join

With D:

Round 10: standing dc (tr) in any corner space, dc (tr) in same space, *dc (tr) in every st of previous round, 2 dc (tr) ch 2 2 dc (tr) in corner space*, 4 times omitting the last 2 dc (tr) in the last repeat, join

With C:

Round 11: standing tr (dtr) in any corner space, tr (dtr) in same space *tr (dtr) in every st of previous round, 2 tr (dtr) ch 2 2 tr (dtr) in corner space*, 4 times omitting the last 2 tr (dtr) in the last repeat, join

with B:
Round 12: standing dc (tr) in any corner space, dc (tr) in same space, *dc (tr) in every st of previous round, 2 dc (tr) ch 2 2 dc (tr) in corner space*, 4 times omitting the last 2 dc (tr) in the last repeat, join and fasten off.

I hope you enjoyed today’s square. You’ll find links to all the other patterns at the end of this post and I hope to see a picture of your creation in our facebook group :)

Happy Crocheting!