The Crochet Rowan Square is the second designed round of the Treesacret afghan project and features the bobble 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. Rowan (January 21 – February 17) is considered the thinker and exhibits influence, patience, and intelligence.

PATTERN

Description

A crochet rowan square pattern that makes up the second design for my Celtic tree zodiac afghan.

Materials

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

Hook: L/11 – 8.00mm

Stitch markers

Tapestry needle

Scissors

Sizing 

Finished Dimensions: 13” length x 13” width

Abbreviations (US)

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

Special Stitches

Bobble Stitch: *yarn over, insert into st indicated, yarn over and pull up a loop, yarn over and pull through 2 loops, repeat from * three times (total of 5 loops on the hook), yarn over and pull through all loops

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 Rowan Square (Treesacret Afghan) – Instructions

Rowan Square

Join with the sl st of the Birch Square

Round 6: ch 3, turn, [dc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, *dc 19 across, [dc 2, tc, dc 2] in the corner tc of the previous round, repeat from * twice, dc 19 across, [dc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, sl st in the top of the starting ch (92 dc, 4 tc)

Round 7: ch 3, turn, [dc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, *[ch 1, sk], dc, continue alternating across and ending with a [ch 1, sk] before working the corner, [dc 2, tc 1, dc 2] in the tc of the previous round, repeat from * twice, ch 1, sk, dc, continue alternating across and ending with a [ch 1, sk], [dc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, sl st in the top of the starting ch (48 ch-sp, 60 dc, 4 tc)

Round 8: ch 3, turn, [dc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, *dc, [ch 1, sk], bobble st in the ch-sp, continue alternating [ch 1, sk] and bobble across ending with a [ch 1, sk], dc, [dc 2, tc 1, dc 2] in the tc of the previous row, repeat from * twice, dc, [ch 1, sk], bobble st in the ch-sp, continue alternating [ch 1, sk] and bobble across ending with a [ch 1, sk], dc, [dc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, sl st in the top of the starting ch (48 bobbles, 52 ch-sp, 24 dc, 4 tc)

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

Block

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