Clover Crochet Pillow
Materials
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- Yarn: Medium (4) Weight
- Caron Simply Soft Tweeds
- Caron Simply Soft
- Hook: I – 5.5 mm
- Yarn Needle
- Scissors
- 18” Pillow Form
Sizing
- Measurements: 18″x 18″
- Gauge: 6 blocks by 6 blocks = 4”x4”
Pattern Key
- WS – Wrong Side
- RS – Right Side
- ch – Chain
- slst – Slip Stitch
- sc – Single Crochet
- hdc – Half Double Crochet
- st/sts – Stitch/Stitches
Specialty Stitching
• Picot Cluster
(sc, hdc, sm picot, hdc, lg picot, hdc, sm picot, sc) in the same stitch
• sm picot – Small Picot
ch3, slip stitch in first ch.
• lg picot – Large Picot
ch4, slip stitch in first ch.
Experience Level
- Intermediate
Special Pattern Notes:
- You will use the C2C stitch with the double crochet (dc), working the square on the diagonal starting from bottom right corner to top left.
- The even rows will be worked on the right side of work.
- The uneven rows will be on the wrong side of work.
- On the graphic you will read the even rows from top to bottom and the uneven rows from bottom to top.
- The first color changes happens in the 11th row, an uneven row.
Yarn Colors
Clover Crochet Pillow Pattern Instructions
Row 1: [WS] ow
2: [RS] (ow) x2
3: [WS] (ow) x3
4: [RS] (ow) x4
5: [WS] (ow) x5
6: [RS] (ow) x6
7: [WS] (ow) x7
8: [RS] (ow) x8
9: [WS] (ow) x9
10: [RS] (ow) x10
11: [WS] (ow) x4, pi, ow, pi, (ow) x4
12: [RS] (ow) x4, (pi) x4, (ow) x4
13: [WS] (ow) x4, (pi) x5, (ow) x4
14: [RS] (ow) x5, (ds) x4, (ow) x5
15: [WS] (ow) x4, pi, ow, (ds) x3, ow, pi, (ow) x4
16: [RS] (ow) x4, pi, ds, ow, (ds) x2, ow, ds, pi, (ow) x4
17: [WS] (ow) x4, (pi) x2, ds, ow, ds. ow, ds, (pi) x2, (ow) x4
18: [RS] (ow) x5, pi, (ds) x6, pi, (ow) x5
19: [WS] (ow) x6, pi, (ds) x5, pi, (ow) x6
20: [RS] (ow) x6, pi, (ds) x6, pi, (ow) x6
Corner – start decreasing!
21: [WS] (ow) x5, (pi) x2, ds, ow, ds, ow, ds, (pi) x2, (ow) x5
22: [RS] (ow) x5, pi, ds, ow, (ds) x2, ow, ds, pi, (ow) x5
23: [WS] (ow) x5, pi, ow, (ds) x3, ow, pi, (ow) x5
24: [RS] (ow) x6, (ds) x4, (ow) x6
25: [WS] (ow) x5, (pi) x5, (ow) x5
26: [RS] (ow) x5, (pi) x4, (ow) x5
27: [WS] (ow) x5, pi, ow, pi, (ow) x5
28: [RS] (ow) x12
29: [WS] (ow) x11
30: [RS] (ow) x10
31: [WS] (ow) x9
32: [RS] (ow) x8
33: [WS] (ow) x7
34: [RS] (ow) x6
35: [WS] (ow) x5
36: [RS] (ow) x4
37: [WS] (ow) x3
38: [RS] (ow) x2
39: [WS] ow
Fasten off and weave in ends.
Steam
With Dark Sage, Chain 40 fasten off leaving long tail to sew stem on to pillow.
Pin on pillow, then stitch it on using tail.
Pillow Back
Make second c2c square in solid Off White.
Rows 1 – 20: Increase rows
Rows 21 – 39: Decrease rows
Fasten off and weave in ends.
Finishing Notes:
Edging
Edge in Dark Sage (ds) on both squares of pillow.
Row 1: Evenly place sc crochet stitches around each side of the square.
Row 2: sc in each stitch around with 2 sc sts in each corner. Join with a slst, fasten off and weave in ends.
Assembly
With wrong sides facing each other, attach (ds) yarn to any corner and sc the back loops of each stitch around three sides, insert the pillow form and continue sc in back loops of each stitch to close pillow.
Fasten off and weave in ends.
Border
Attach Pistachio (pi) to any corner, ch1, work * Picot Cluster in same stitch, sc in the next 5sts * repeat from * around pillow, join with a slst, fasten off and weave in ends.
I know your going to love this Clover Pillow. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask.
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