Rainbow raindrops3/4/2023 So please if you don't mind, can you just overlook that wonky bit? Ta. You can see above that the bottom of the crochet is very skewed! This shows where I had trouble with the pattern in the beginning (remember this was me sampling the raindrops stitch from scratch), I had to adjust the way I started and ended each row in order to make it grow straight. The seventh extra repeat (which measures about 15cm) will form the envelope flap. I worked out that three repeats fit the 45cm cushion perfectly, so I would need 6 repeats to cover the front and back. Crochet stretches remember, so don't make your button hole loops too big. The button holes look quite small, but I did test them out with my 23mm buttons and they were fine. Work dc's into each dc from the previous row, putting 2dc's into each ch-2 button hole loop. I worked dc three times, then a chain-2, skip-2 to make the button hole, then dc 4 times to make the space between the button holes, then another chain-2, skip-2 button hole, then dc 4 times etc etc. Row 3 this is the button hole row.I wanted to make 8 button holes, so with 50 stitches I did some maths. Row 1 this is still part of the Raindrops pattern, the row with long and short half trebles (this will become clear when you read the pattern!) The button hole strip was easy to make, worked in four rows as follows :: So if you are making a 45cm cushion, your crochet needs to measure 45cm wide, and 105cm deep (45+45+15). The finished length needs to be twice that of your cushion, plus an extra third of the cushion depth. I made this cushion cover in one long piece, which allowed for a front, a back and a bit extra for an envelope style button flap thingy. I love the textural look of it, and the way it allows the colours to dance around with each other. I struggled with it a little at first (I had trouble keeping the edges straight), but after adjusting the pattern I managed to put that right. The Raindrops pattern is a great success I think. I use this method for all stripy crochet (including the ripple). It's a secure way of dealing with tail ends, plus you don't get the yarn ends poking out in the middle of a row this way, as they sit neatly at the edge of the work. You can then just snip them off at this point. My method is to crochet over the tail ends as I work the first 8-10 stitches, then pick the ends up with a darning needle and weave them back on themselves right to the outside edge. With this pattern, you change colours every other row, so there are a LOT of ends for a reasonably compact project. I tried hard to deal with my tail ends methodically as I went along. It is GREAT cushion yarn though, as the resulting fabric is so soft, dense, and well, chunky! I found I could only work in quite short bursts before my fingers and hands began to ache a little, so this would put me off using chunky yarn for a blanket project. The Stylecraft Speical chunky is a lovely yarn, very soft and squidgy and bouncy, but with a 6mm hook it did take quite a bit of "working", if you understand what I mean, and that made it quite slow going. I have to say, I did find this chunky yarn quite physical to work with. The very rainbowyness of this project really did lift my spirits and the very chunkyness of the yarn made the rainbow stripes grow satisfyingly fast. I deliberately went for a rainbow effect, I think I might have been subconsciously trying to counter balance the extreme drabness of the weather we've been having! It's rainy and grey, lets make yarn rainbows!! Unusually for me, I chose to order these colours into a repeating stripe (you know I usually go for random, so this was yet another new experience for me). There is enough yarn here to make two of these cushions, you only actually need 4 x 100g balls of chunky to make a 45cm cushion in this pattern. ♥ Raspberry ♥ Lipstick ♥ Fondant ♥ Camel ♥ Meadow ♥ Aspen ♥ Lavender ♥ Denim I've used Stylecraft Special Chunky yarn, worked on a 6mm hook, in eight colours as follows :: I also wanted to try using chunky yarn for the first time, so the combination of the new stitch and the new yarn was a whole new experience for me. This cushion has been such a happy project to work on, a quick and spontaneous make which I used to test out my new Raindrops stitch pattern.
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