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Granny Bobble Spiral

Project Details

Intermediate

This pattern is written in US Crochet Terminology and uses standard Crochet Abbreviations.

You will need 4 different colours on separate balls to make this square.

Special Abbreviations

Make bobble – (work 4 dc, drop loop from hook; insert hook from front to back under the top loops of the 1st dc worked; also catch dropped loop onto hook; holding yarn tight pull loop through st to make a bobble). 

Description

  1. With 1st colour make a magic loop and chain 4.  Make bobble (see special abbreviations above).  Ch3, pull up loop (make it large so that it doesn’t unravel) and drop from hook.
  2. Attach next colour into magic loop and repeat stitches worked in the 1st colour – so ch4, make bobble, ch3. Again draw up the loop and drop from your hook.
  3. Repeat with the last 2 colours and then tighten magic loop. You should have in each colour a chain 4, 1 bobble, and then chain 3.
  4. Insert hook back into loop 1st colour worked and tighten.
  5. You are now going to work into the side of the ch4 of the next colour on round 1.
  6. You will create the 1st corner; so (make bobble, ch4, make bobble) then chain 3. Pull up loop and drop from hook.
  7. Repeat with the other 3 colours.
  8. Pick up loop of 1st colour again and make bobble in next chain space. Chain 3.
  9. Now create next corner in next chain space – so (make bobble, chain 4, make bobble) then chain 3. Pull up loop and drop from hook.
  10. Repeat rows 8 & 9 with other 3 colours.
  11. Carry on set pattern working a bobble and then a chain 3 in each side space and working a bobble, chain 4, another bobble in each corner, then chain 3 once more in each colour. (usually when working spirals it is useful to use stitch markers so that you know where each colour on each row finishes, however as each colour on every row finishes with the corner bobbles you will always know when you have completed each row’s colour).
  12. To finish, make bobble in next chain space & ch3.
  13. The next bobble will be made with half double crochet stitches, so instead of dc4, hdc 4. When bobble is completed chain 3.
  14. The next bobble will be made with single crochet stitches instead of dc.
  15. To finish, ch 2 and sl st into ch2 corner space. Cut yarn and fasten off.
  16. Repeat with other 3 colours, but with final colour don’t fasten off…
  17. *Dc 3 in corner ch sp, [ch1, dc3] in next 4 ch spaces, ch2; rep from * 3 times more.  Sl st into 1st dc.  Fasten off.