The Crochet Ash Round is the third round designed for the Treesacret afghan project and features the leaf stitch.

Design Inspiration

The Celtic zodiac has multiple iterations, including trees and animals. The ancient druids believed that a person’s birth correlated with a specific tree related to lunar cycles and that correlation contributed to one’s personality traits. My Treesacret afghan project incorporates each of these thirteen trees into one stitch sampler blanket. For the ash tree, I wanted to choose a design that most closely resembled the tree’s leaf pattern: the leaf stitch. Ash (February 18 – March 17) is considered the Charmer and embodies imagination, art, and individuality.

PATTERN

Description

A crochet ash round pattern and the third design for my Celtic tree zodiac afghan.

Materials

Yarn: Lion Brand Hue + Me (weight 5 – bulky)
Fatigues (4.4 oz/125 g, 137 yd/125 m) – 1 skein
Salt (4.4 oz/125 g, 137 yd/125 m) – 1 skein *the remaining yarn from the Birch Square*

Hook: L/11 – 8.00mm

Stitch markers

Tapestry needle

Scissors

Sizing 

Finished Dimensions: 19” length x 19” width

Abbreviations (US)

st – stitch
sl st – slip stitch
ch – chain
sk – skip
sc – single crochet
dc – double crochet
tc – treble crochet

Special Stitches

Leaf Stitch: working below the dc of the previous round, insert the hook into the sc one row below and two sts to the right, yarn over and pull up a loop, insert the hook into the dc two rows below and one st to the right, yarn over and pull up a loop, insert the hook into the sc three rows below, yarn over and pull up a loop, insert the hook into the dc two rows below and one st to the left, yarn over and pull up a loop, insert the hook in the sc one row below and two sts to the left, yarn over and pull up a loop, yarn over and pull through all loops on the hook (total of 6) *always skip working in the dc above the leaf

Notes

Brackets [ ] indicate directions worked in the same st. For example, sc 5 means sc 1 in five sts; [sc 5] means sc 5 in the same st.

Beginning ch 3 counts as a treble crochet

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Crochet Ash (Treesacret Afghan) – Instructions

Ash Round

Join with the last sl st of the Rowan Square

Round 9: ch 2, turn, [sc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, *sc 31 across, [sc 2, dc, sc 2] in the corner tc of the previous round, repeat from * twice, sc 31 across, [sc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, sl st in the top of the starting ch (140 sc, 4 dc)

Round 10: ch 3, turn, [dc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, *dc 35, [dc 2, tc 1, dc 2] in the corner dc of the previous round, repeat from * twice, dc 35, [dc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, sl st in the top of the starting ch (156 dc, 4 tc)

Round 11: ch 2, turn, [sc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, *sc 39 across, [sc 2, dc, sc 2] in the corner tc of the previous round, repeat from * twice, sc 39 across, [sc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, sl st in the top of the starting ch (172 sc, 4 dc)

Round 12: ch 3, turn, [dc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, *dc 43, [dc 2, tc 1, dc 2] in the tc of the previous round, repeat from * twice, dc 43, [dc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, sl st in the top of the starting ch (188 dc, 4 tc)

Round 13: ch 2, turn, [sc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, *sc 7, leaf st, sc 6, leaf st, sc 5, leaf st, sc 5, leaf st, sc 5, leaf st, sc 6, leaf st, sc 7, [sc 2, dc, sc 2] in the corner dc of the previous round, repeat from * twice, sc 7, leaf st, sc 6, leaf st, sc 5, leaf st, sc 5, leaf st, sc 5, leaf st, sc 6, leaf st, sc 7, [sc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, sl st in the top of the starting ch (24 leaves, 180 sc, 4 dc)

You can finish off or mark the sl st to add the next round later

Block

If you enjoyed this pattern, check out these other projects: Crochet Birch Square (Treesacret Afghan), Crochet Rowan Square (Treesacret Afghan), Baby Countdown Series