The Crochet Willow Round is the fifth round designed for the Treesacret afghan project and features front and back loop only techniques.

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 willow tree, I chose a design that resembles the flowing branches of a weeping willow. I love how the stitches in this round ended up looking like leaves too. Willow (April 15 – May 12) is deemed the Witness and represents tranquility, sympathy, and intuition.

PATTERN

Description

A crochet willow inspired round pattern and the fifth design for my Celtic tree zodiac afghan.

Materials

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

Hook: L/11 – 8.00mm

Stitch markers

Tapestry needle

Scissors

Sizing 

Finished Dimensions: 27” length x 27” width

Abbreviations (US)

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

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

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Crochet Willow Square (Treesacret Afghan) – Instructions

Willow Round

Join with the last sl st of the Alder Round

Round 18: ch 2, turn, [hdc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, *hdc 52 in the front two loops only, [hdc 2, dc, hdc 2] in the corner tc of the previous round, repeat from * until the final corner, [hdc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, sl st in the top of the starting ch (224 hdc, 4 dc)

Round 19: ch 2, turn, [hdc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, *hdc 56 blo, [hdc 2, dc, hdc 2] in the corner dc of the previous round, repeat from * until the the final corner, [sc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, sl st in the top of the starting ch (240 hdc, 4 dc)

Round 20: ch 2, turn, [hdc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, *hdc 60 flo, [hdc 2, dc, hdc 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 (256 hdc, 4 dc)

Round 21: ch 2, turn, [hdc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, *hdc 64 blo, [hdc 2, dc 1, hdc 2] in the dc of the previous round, repeat from * until the final corner, [hdc 2] in the same st as the starting ch, sl st in the top of the starting ch (272 hdc, 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: Treesacret Afghan, Baby Countdown Series