Hello again! Yesterday, I wrote a post about the Gourmet Crochet- Flat Braid method for joining squares and many of you requested the pattern for the square. So, today's post is about that beautiful shell-stitch pattern and 9 more variations, all courtesy of Carolyn Christmas. That would make 10 beautiful variations on a pretty shell-stitch pattern.
I’m ready to start off the new year with a pretty afghan project! How about you? I've had many requests to do a mystery afghan crochet-along, so I thought we'd try this. This afghan is called “Variations on a Theme” because as I worked on stitch swatches, I found myself wanting to create many variations of one basic stitch pattern just to see how far it could go. We'll be doing a stitch sampler afghan using many of these patterns. (Source)
Click on the names of the patterns you like to go to their pattern pages!
Variations on a Theme Square #2
Variations on a Theme Square #3
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why can’t i get number one i could get the others but something wrong when you click on the first one
Hi Debbie, I replaced the link, please try again. Thanks for noticing!;-)
Thank you! I was having the same problem. Now I have all the instructions to try this!
So pretty !!
This is a neat pattern I have try it next
Looking for pattern #1 thank you
Absolutely love the way pattern #1 turned out. I made my daughter’s bedspread with it. She loves it! Thank you for sharing the pattern!