Crochet the Center-to-Corner Way!

By Margret Willson

Using many of the same techniques that make Corner-to-Corner (C2C) crochet so popular, Center-to-Corner crochet begins each piece at the center and works to the outside edge. 7 great designs are included. Market Bag is made with simple chain spaces within the basic Center-to-Corner stitch to create an openwork bag. Cables and puff stitch bobbles add texture to half double crochet fabric in Cable Corners Afghan. You can also find a delicate doily with a floral center and corners with diamonds set in lace, along with a triangle shawl worked from center back neck to lower edge with openwork—the stitch creates its own sawtooth edge. And there's more!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Annies
• Release date: Feb 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9781640254282

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Guide

Cable Corners Afghan

Skill Level

Finished Measurements

48 inches wide × 60 inches long

Materials

•Bernat Super Value medium (worsted) weight acrylic yarn (7 oz/426 yds/197g per skein):

8 skeins #53010 oatmeal

•Size K/10½/6.5mm crochet hook or size needed to obtain gauge

•Tapestry needle

Gauge

Rnds 1–4 = 6½ inches measured from corner to corner across center

Pattern Notes

Weave in loose ends as work progresses.

Join with slip stitch as indicated unless otherwise stated.

Half double crochet at end of round counts as chain-2 space.

Special Stitches

Block: (Sl st, ch 2, 2 hdc) in ch-2 sp of next block.

Puff stitch (puff st): (Yo, insert hook in indicated sp, yo, draw lp through) 5 times, yo, draw through 11 lps on hook, ch 1.

Puff-stitch block (psblock): (Sl st, ch 2, puff st–see Special Stitches) in ch-2 sp of next block.

Repeated pattern (rep pat): Psblock in next sp, block in each of next 2 sps.

Corner (WS only): Sl st in next ch-2 sp, ch 2, bptr (see Stitch Guide) in each of next 4 sts, ch 2.

Cable: Sk next 2 sts, fpdtr (see Stitch Guide) in each of next 2 sts, fpdtr in each of 2 sk sts.

Cable corner (RS only): Sl st in next ch-2 sp, ch 2, cable (see Special Stitches), ch 2.

End round (WS only): Join in beg sl st, sl st in each of next 2 chs, turn.

Decrease (dec): Ch 1, sl st in each of next 2 hdc.

Afghan

Center Section

Rnd 1 (RS): Ch 6, sl st in 6th ch to form ring, ch 4 (counts as first tr), 23 tr in ring, join (see Pattern Notes) in 4th ch of beg ch-4. (24 tr)

Rnd 2 (RS): Ch 2, *cable (see Special Stitches) in next 4 sts**, ch 2, sl st in each of next 2 sts, rep from * around, ending last rep at **, hdc in last st (see Pattern Notes), turn. (4 cable corners)

Rnd 3 (WS): Ch 1, *corner (see Special Stitches), block (see Special Stitches) in next sp, rep from * around, end round (see Special Stitches). (4 corners, 1 block per section between corners)

Rnd 4 & all RS rnds (RS): Ch 1, *block in each sp to corner, cable corner (see Special Stitches), rep from * around, ending last rep with hdc in sl st of first block, turn. (4 corners, 2 blocks per section—each successive RS rnd will have 4 corners and 1 more block per section than the