This is it, Week 10 of our Festival of Fall Afghan CAL! You have 10 squares joined, now we will complete the edging and you will have a lovely Fall Afghan to keep in your home or give as a gift!
This project seemed to go so quickly! I hope you enjoyed it! If you haven’t finished or you haven’t even started, Good news… The full instructions are in the Crochet with Me tab at the top! And don’t forget to see how to enter the Grand Prize Drawing at the bottom of the page!!
My finished size after blocking is 43″ x 68″
Yarn:
Red Heart ~ I recommend 5 colors, but minimum of 2 to show off the textural stitching. I used both With Love (370 yds ea) and Super Saver (364 Yds ea)colors to get the color scheme I wanted:
- A~ With Love in Boysenberry (2 skeins)
- B~ Super Saver in Gold (3 skeins)
- C~ Super Saver in Dark Orchid (3 skeins)
- D~ Super Saver in Carrot (2 skeins)
- E~ With Love in Spinach (2 skeins)
Edging
There are 6 Rounds of this projects edging. I recommend using the 5 different colors or at least each round be a different color. I will share each round what I used, and you can do the same or a different color scheme.
Using the H hook and color B(which is the color I joined the squares with), Join with sl st in top right hand corner stitch Right side facing.
Round 1: Ch 1, *3 sc in same st(corner), sc 99 sts evenly across to the next corner st(this is a st in each st and in the join), 3 sc in next corner st, sc 167 evenly across to the next corner st*, Repeat *to* one more time. Join with sl st to beginning sc. = 544 sc Finish off
With color D, Join with sl st in top right hand corner stitch Right side facing.
Round 2: Ch 3, 2 dc in same st, {dc in next 6 sts, *ch 5, sk 5 sts, dc in next st*, repeat *to* 14 more times, dc in next 5 sts, 3 dc in next corner st, dc in next 7 sts, repeat *to* 26 times, dc in next 6 sts}, 3 dc in next corner st, repeat {to} 1 more time, join with sl st to top of beginning ch 3. = 82 ch 5, & 142 dc. Finish off
With color E, Join with sl st in top right hand corner stitch Right side facing.
Round 3: Ch 3, 2 dc in same st, {dc in next 7 sts, *(2 dc in next ch 5 sp, trc in 3rd st of empty sts from round 1 of edging(see pic), 2 dc in same ch 5 sp), fpdc around next dc st*, repeat *to* 13 times, (2 dc in next ch 5 sp, trc in 3rd st of empty sts from round 1 of edging(see pic), 2 dc in same ch 5 sp), dc in next 7 sts, 3 dc in next corner st, dc in next 8 sts, repeat *to* 25 times, (2 dc in next ch 5 sp, trc in 3rd st of empty sts from round 1 of edging(see pic), 2 dc in same ch 5 sp), dc in next 8 sts, 3dc in next corner st}, repeat {to} 1 more time, join with sl st to top of beginning ch 3. = 400 dc, 78 fpdc & 82 trc. Finish off
With color A, join with sl st in top right hand corner stitch Right side facing.
Round 4: Ch 3, 2 dc in same st, (dc in each dc, fpdc in each fpdc & trc across to next corner st), 3 dc in next corner st*, repeat *to* around, join with sl st to top of beginning ch 3. = 408 dc & 160 fpdc. Finish off
With color B, join with sl st in top right corner st. **Wrong Side of project facing**
Round 5: Ch 2, 2 hdc in same st, hdc in each st across to next corner, *3 hdc in next corner st, hdc in each st across*, repeat *to* around, join with sl st to top of beginning ch 2. = 580 hdc. Finish off
With color C, Join at top right corner st. Right Side Facing
Round 6: Ch 1, 3 sc in corner st, sc across to next corner st*, Repeat *to* around. Join with sl st to beginning sc. =588 sc
Finish off and weave in ends
Block entire project into shape.
That’s it… You have completed your Festival of Fall Afghan!!! Congratulations… I can’t wait to see all of them.
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Grand Prize
Here are the details of the Grand Prize: A drawing will be held for a $50 Amazon Gift Card.
To enter you will email me a picture of your finished Festival of Fall Afghan by 10/26 to [email protected]. One entry per finished project, each entry will be numbered as they come in and I will use a random number generator to pick the winner on October 30th. I will make a Fan Gallery post of all entries that I received so we can see all the beautiful afghans and announce the winner in the same post!
Good Luck and I can’t wait to see your Festival of Fall Afghans!
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Elena
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