The Crochet Hawthorn Round is the sixth round designed for the Treesacret afghan project and features puff v-stitches.

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 hawthorn tree, the design resembles the fruit or haws of the plant. Hawthorn (May 13 – June 9) is deemed the Impressionist and represents passion, mystery, and amusement.

PATTERN

Description

A crochet hawthorn-inspired round pattern and the sixth design for my Celtic tree zodiac afghan.

Materials

Yarn: Lion Brand Hue + Me (weight 5 – bulky)
Love Song (4.4 oz/125 g, 137 yd/125 m) – 1 skein

Hook: L/11 – 8.00mm

Stitch markers

Tapestry needle

Scissors

Sizing 

Finished Dimensions: 29” length x 29” width

Abbreviations (US)

st – stitch
sl st – slip stitch
ch – chain
sk – skip
sc – single crochet
dc – double crochet
hdc – half double crochet
tc – treble crochet
blo – back loop only

Special Stitches

Puff V-stitch: yarn over, insert the hook, yarn over and pull up a loop a total of four times (9 loops on the hook), pull through all loops, chain 2, yarn over, insert the hook, yarn over and pull up a loop a total of four times, pull through all loops, ch 1

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 2 counts as a double crochet; beginning ch 3 counts as a treble crochet

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Crochet Hawthorn Round (Treesacret Afghan) – Instructions

Hawthorn Round

Join with the last sl st of the Willow Round

Round 22: ch 2, turn, [sc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, *sc blo 68, [sc 2, dc, sc 2] in the corner dc of the previous round, repeat from * until the final corner, [sc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, sl st in the top of the starting ch (288 sc, 4 dc)

Round 23: ch 3, turn, [dc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, {*sk 3, puff v-stitch, repeat from * 16 times, sk 3, dc, [dc 2, tc, dc 2] in the corner dc of the previous round}, repeat {pattern} until the the final corner, [dc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, sl st in the top of the starting ch (68 puff v-sts, 20 dc, 4 tc)

Round 24: ch 3, turn, [dc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, {dc 3,*dc in the ch1-sp, [dc 2] in the ch2-sp, repeat from * 16 times, dc in sk-sp, dc 2, [dc 2, tc, dc 2] in the corner tc of the previous round}, repeat {pattern} until the final corner, [dc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, sl st in the top of the starting ch (244 dc, 4 tc)

Mark the sl st to add the next round later

Block

If you enjoyed this pattern, check out these other projects: Treesacret Afghan, Baby Countdown Series