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Macey Ann by

A Yarn of Serendipity Pam Knighton-Haener

The Macey Ann Square is the second in a series of squares named after my grandchildren. My intention is to design a square that demonstrate their personalities. The first square, Lauren Rose, can be found on my Ravelry page. All these squares will be designed to be used as blanket squares, a center piece for a blanket, a pillow or tote. This square represents Macey’s unique creativity, and love of everything pretty and sparkly.

Difficulty: Intermediate

Hook: 4.5 mm or any hook you prefer, as gauge is not important

Crochet Terms: US Terminology throughout

Yarn: I Love This Cotton #4 (Medium-Worsted Weight), 100% cotton Mini Square 50 -60 yards Large Square 125 - 175 yards

Colors used: The colors used in the rounds of the pattern are for the square shown above. Photos used for stitch placement instructions, are to help identify the stitch.

Mini Square - A = Buttercup; B = Rosy II; C = Sage; D = Royalty; E = Ivory; F = Antique Cream

Large Square - A = Buttercup; B = Royalty; C = Mulberry; D = Deep Teal; E = Olive; F = Ivory

Final Stitch Count: Mini Square - 100 total and 25 per side Count for Large Square - 140 total and 35 per side

STITCHES USED Magic Ring (Double Magic ring) ch (Chain) slst (Slip stitch) st(s) (Stitch/stitches)

Invisible Join (join) Standing Stitch sc (Single crochet) hdc (Half double crochet) dc (Double crochet)

tr (Treble crochet) BLO sc (Back loop single crochet) BLO hdc (Back loop half double crochet) dtr (Double treble crochet)

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trtr (Triple treble crochet) Long hdc (Long half double crochet) Long dc (Long double crochet)

Long tr (Long treble crochet) FPsc (Front post single crochet) FPhdc (Front Post Half Double Crochet) FPdc (Front post double crochet)

2-dc-cluster (2 double crochet cluster) pc4 (Popcorn st with 4 dc) Back-Stitch Picot

Double Magic Ring Oombawka Design: https://youtu.be/tLFTOm3SlqU

Standing Stitch • Start with a slip stitch on your hook.

• Insert your hook into the designated st or ch sp and finish the st as normal. Moogly Video: https://youtu.be/8MsVeIId2UY

pc4 • Work 4 dc st in the same st.

• Drop the loop from your hook. • Insert your hook from front to back under the top 2

loops of the first double crochet of the group.

• Grab the dropped loop with your hook and pull it through the st.

dtr • Yarn over 3 times, insert hook into next st, yarn over,

pull up a loop, (yarn over, pull through two loops) 4 times.

trtr

• Yarn over 4 times, insert hook into next st, yarn over, pull up a loop, (yarn over, pull through two loops) 5 times.

Long hdc

• Yarn over, insert hook into designated st and pull up a loop. Pull the loop up almost to the length of the previous st.

• Yarn over once and pull through the last three loops on hook.

Long dc

• Yarn over, insert hook into designated st and pull up a loop. Pull the loop up almost to the length of the previous st.

• Yarn over once and pull through the first two loops. Yarn over again and pull through the last two loops on hook.

Long tr • Yarn over twice, insert hook into designated st and pull

up a loop. Pull the loop up almost to the length of the previous st.

• Yarn over once and pull through the first two loops. Yarn over once and pull through the next two loops. Yarn over again and pull through the last two loops on the hook.

2-dc-cluster • Yarn over, insert hook in st, yarn over, pull through st,

yarn over, pull through 2 loops on hook, yarn over, insert hook in same st, yarn over, pull through st, yarn over, pull through all 3 loops on hook.

Back-Stitch

• Identify the designated stitch and fold the work toward you. Insert your hook into the inverted “v” of the stitch one row below, from back to front, move around the base of the stitch and complete the stitch (sc, hdc, dc, etc.).

Invisible Join • Do not join after the last st of the rnd is completed; cut

the yarn and pull the yarn tail through the st.

• Remove hook and insert it from the back to the front of the 2nd st of the rnd; grab the yarn and gently pull through.

• Insert the hook from back to front and bottom to top of the center of the last st of the rnd; pull yarn gently through and weave in end.

Picot • Once you have completed the treble, ch 3, insert hook

into the back bar of the first ch, yarn over, pull though all loops on the hook.

Symbol Guide

ASTERISKS: * to* means that the steps following the asterisk are to be repeated in order the number of times indicated.

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Example *(2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc); ch 1, skip 2 st; [(dc, ch 1, dc in next st), ch 1, skip 3 st] twice; (dc, ch 1, dc), ch 1, skip 2 st*; REPEAT FROM *to* 3 MORE TIMES

PARENTHESIS: ( ) indicates a group of st that are to be worked together in the same st. Example: (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc)

BRACKETS: [ ] Work the st between the brackets the number of times indicated. Example: [(dc, ch 1, dc in next st), ch 1, skip 3 st] twice

COUNT TOTALS: Chain spaces are included in the stitch count; corner spaces are not included in the total. (x total sts/y per side) Example: (100 total/25 per side)

ALL ROUNDS BEGIN WITH A STANDING STITCH UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE.

ROUND 1 – COLOR A

Into a magic ring, ch 5 (as a dc, ch 2), dc into magic ring; *ch 2, dc; REPEAT 6 MORE TIMES; ch 2*; finish with an invisible join in 3rd ch of beginning ch 5. Count – 8 dc, 8 ch 2 sps (16 total)

ROUND 2 – COLOR B

Starting in any ch 2 sp, *(sc, ch 4, sc)*; REPEAT FROM *to* 7 MORE TIMES, join, fasten off and weave in ends. Counts –

16 sc, 8 ch 4 sps (48 total)

ROUND 3 – COLOR B

Starting In any ch 4 sp, *(sc, 3 hdc, dc, tr, picot, tr, dc, 3 hdc, sc), skip first sc, slst in next sc*; REPEAT FROM *to* 7 MORE TIMES; join, fasten off and weave in ends. Count: 16 sc, 48 hdc, 16 dc, 16 tr, 8 picot, 8 slst (112 total)

ROUND 4 – COLOR E

Starting in the slst between petals, *trtr back-stitch in the sp between the 2 sc from rnd 2, ch 4; in the top of next picot (sc, ch 1, sc), ch 4*; REPEAT FROM *to* 7 MORE TIMES; join, fasten off and weave in ends. Count: 8 trtr back-stitch, 16 ch 4 sps, 16 sc, 8 ch 1 sps (96 total)

ROUND 5 – COLOR C

trtr stitch placement on back of square

trtr stitch placement on front of square

completed trtr stitch

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In any ch 1 sp, *(sc, ch 2, sc) place stitch marker in the corner, ch 4; skip ch 4; pc4 in next trtr, ch 4; skip ch 4; sc in next ch 1 sp, ch 4; skip ch 4; pc4 in next trtr, ch 4; skip ch 4*; REPEAT FROM *to* 3 MORE TIMES; join, fasten off and weave in ends. Count: 8 pc4, 16 ch 4 sps, 12 sc, 4 ch 2 corners (84 total/21 per side)

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ROUND 6 – COLOR F

In any ch 2 corner sp, *(dc, ch 1, dc, ch 2, dc, ch 1, dc) place stitch marker in the corner; skip sc;

(2-dc-cluster in ch 4 sp of rnd 5 only, long dc around ch 4 from rnd 4 and 5, 2-dc-cluster in ch 4 sp of rnd 5 only); FPhdc around pc4; in ch 4 sp (hdc, long hdc including the ch 4 from rnd 4 and 5, sc in ch 4 sp of rnd 5 only); FPsc around sc;

(sc into ch 4 sp, long hdc including the ch 4 from rnd 4 and 5, hdc in ch 4 sp of rnd 5 only); FPhdc around pc4;

(2-dc-cluster in ch 4 sp of rnd 5 only); long dc including the ch 4 from rnd 4 and 5, 2-dc-cluster in ch 4 sp of rnd 5 only); skip sc*

REPEAT FROM *to* 3 MORE TIMES; join, fasten off and weave in ends. Count: 16 dc, 16 2-dc-cluster, 8 FPhdc, 8 long-dc, 8 long-hdc, 8 hdc, 8 sc, 4 FPsc, 8 ch 1 sps, 4 ch 2 corner sps (84

total/21 per side)

ROUND 7 – COLOR F

In any ch 2 corner sp, *(sc, ch 2, sc); sc in next dc, sc in next ch 1 sp, sc in next 17 st; sc in ch 1 sp, sc in next dc*; REPEAT FROM *to* 3 MORE TIMES; join, fasten off and weave in ends. Count: 92 sc, 4 ch 2 corner sps (92 total/23 per

side)

COMPLETE ROUND 8 ONLY, FOR MINI SQUARE

ROUND 8 – COLOR A

In any ch 2 corner sp, *(sc, ch 2, sc); sc in next st, [sc back-stitch, sc] eleven times*; REPEAT FROM *to* 3 MORE TIMES, join, fasten off and weave in ends. Count: 56 sc, 44 sc back-stitch, 4 ch 2 corner sps (100 total/25 per side)

FRONT ~ identification of the stitch BACK ~ location of the stitch BACK ~ insert hook into stitch

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COMPLETE ROUNDS 8a-13, FOR LARGE SQUARE

ROUND 8a – COLOR D

In any ch 2 corner, *(2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc); long tr in ch 2 corner sp of rnd 5; FPdc in the next dc from rnd 6; long dc in ch 1

sp from rnd 6;

sc in the 4th sc from the corner; BLO sc in the next 15 st; sc in the 4th sc from the

corner;

long dc in ch 1 sp from rnd 6; FPdc in the next dc from rnd 6; long tr in the ch 2

corner sp of rnd 5*; REPEAT FROM *to* 3 MORE TIMES; join, fasten off and weave

in ends.

Counts – 16 dc, 8 long tr, 8 FPdc, 8 long dc, 8 sc, 60 BLO sc, 4 ch 2 corner sp (108 total/27

per side)

ROUND 9 – COLOR B

Working over the ch 2 corner from rnd 8a, and in the ch 2 corner sp from rnd 6, *(3

dtr); ch 1, skip dc;

BLO hdc in next 4 st; BLO sc in next 17 sc; BLO hdc in next 4 st; skip dc, ch 1; *;

REPEAT FROM *to* 3 MORE TIMES; join, fasten off and weave in ends.

Counts – 12 dtr, 32 BLO hdc, 68, BLO sc, 8 ch 1 sps (120 total/30 per side)

ROUND 10 – COLOR E

*sc in ch 1 sp after 3 dtr, [ch 3, skip one st, sc in next st] 12 times; ch 3; skip next st, sc in ch 1 sp; ch 4*; REPEAT FROM

*to* 3 MORE TIMES; join, fasten off and weave in ends. Counts – 56 sc, 52 ch 3 sps, 4 ch 4 corner sps (112 total/28 per

side)

ROUND 11 – COLOR F

In any ch 4 corner sp, *over ch 4 sp, and into the center dtr (tr, ch 2, tr); 2dc in next dtr and behind ch 4 sp, skip sc;

[sc in next ch 3 sp, skip one st, ch 1] 12 times; sc in next ch 3 sp, skip sc; 2dc in next dtr and behind ch 4 sp*; REPEAT

FROM *to* 3 MORE TIMES; join, fasten off and weave in ends. Counts – 8 tr, 16 dc, 52 sc, 48 ch 1 sps, 4 ch 2 corner sp (124

total/31 per side)

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ROUND 12 – COLOR C

In any ch 2 corner sp, *(2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc); dc in next 3 st, [dc back-stitch in the ch 3 sp from rnd 10, dc in next ch 1 sp]

12 times; dc back-stitch in the ch 3 sp from rnd 10; dc in next 3 st*; REPEAT FROM *to* 3 MORE TIMES; join, fasten

off and weave in ends. Counts – 88 dc, 52 dc back-stitch, 4 ch 2 corner sps (140 total/35 per side)

Front view of stitch Back view of back-stitch placement Back-stitch hook placement Front view of finished stitch

ROUND 13 – COLOR C

In any ch 2 corner sp, *(sc, ch 2, sc); sc in next 35 sts*; REPEAT FROM *to* 3 MORE TIMES; join, fasten off and

weave in ends. Counts – 148 sc, 4 ch 2 corner sps (148 total/37 per side)

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- Front - identification of the stitch

- Back - location of the stitch

- Back – Insert hook into stitch

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