I love the pattern, Victorian Lattice Squares by Destany Wymore. I'm using Stylecraft Special DK acrylic yarn in mushroom and lapis. The yarns are slightly different in thickness, which makes it a challenge to crochet the squares to the same size, so I blocked them to about 7" and changed to a size F 4.0 hook. The yarn is so soft.
It's always hard to decide how to sew or crochet squares together. I decided to try the Flat Braid Join, and I really love the look. It's pretty easy to do, and it is a continuous join, which reduces ends to weave in. So, you can start with joining two squares and keep adding squares without cutting the yarn.
I followed a wonderful tutorial by Crochet 365 Knit Too, available here: https://www.crochet365knittoo.com/happily-ever-afghan-crochet-flat-braid-join/ .
It's helpful to single crochet around each square before joining. So, I ended up using Round 9 in the mushroom color around each square as my Single Crochet round, and crocheted the flat braid join using Lapis. The reason I crocheted around each square in mushroom is so the join would show up more--if some squares were finished in Lapis, the join would blend in too much with the blue squares.
I think I'll do a shell border around the afghan. My granddaughter loves the blue color, but I think the shell edging would look really pretty in the mushroom color because it would stand out a bit more. Ally loves her afghan and can't wait for it to be finished!
My notes:
I’m using Stylecraft DK yarn in Lapis blue and Mushroom and a size
4.0 mm F hook. The squares are about 7” before borders and joining.
I am using the sc, ch1 as the first DC where the pattern says it. It makes a smaller DC which blends in well with the join each round. Round 9 is SC around in mushroom. This is 14 sc, ch1 in space, 14 sc, then the corner of (2sc, ch3, 2 sc). I’m going to join with the blue with the flat braid join.
I am using the sc, ch1 as the first DC where the pattern says it. It makes a smaller DC which blends in well with the join each round. Round 9 is SC around in mushroom. This is 14 sc, ch1 in space, 14 sc, then the corner of (2sc, ch3, 2 sc). I’m going to join with the blue with the flat braid join.
I am blocking each square before joining. For the flat braid join, always go into the stitch for the sc from the right side of the block. Always go into the chains from the right side of the block, so go down into the chain to join. Make sure the blocks are facing the right side when joining. 17 chains along each side of each block.
Each join is SC in new block, chain 1, take loop off, go into chain 3 of opposite square and pull thru, chain 2, then skip one sc on new block and sc in next sc.
Corners: SC in corner space, ch 2, take off hook, pull through diagonal corner, chain 3, sc in corner of new square again.
Starting a square: chain 5 from last corner of last square, sc into corner space of new square.
Ideas for border: there will be loops along each side of the blanket from the flat braid join.
I could do a shell into each: sc, hdc, 2 or 3 dc, hdc, sc into each loop. I will sc in each loop first to add some structure.
I could do 3 sc into each loop with 5 in the corners. Then do the basic shell border: sc, skip one or two sc, 5 double crochets in the next stitch, skip one or 2 sc.. repeat.
Or a wave shell border is pretty. Or round of sc. 2nd round, sc skip one or two sc, then a shell of dc, ch1 (5 dcs with chain 1 between) or can use TC instead of dc.
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