Little Green Apples - lapghan

[darski]

Little Green Apples-lapghan:pinterest

Note that not all squares have leaves.

 

WW yarn in 3 colours (White. Dk Green and Apple Green ( RH col # 3229) are good J )an additional contrast colour makes your ghan pop! I chose a dark apple red for this.

 

6.mm, 5.5mm hooks

 

V-st: [dc, ch1, dc] in same st.

 

Tr V-st: [tr, ch1, tr] in same st.

 

Join all rows.

 

It helps if you are generally familiar with how Granny Squares work.

 

With my tension I get a 7” square at round 5. 50 X 32 Inches finished

 

Apple motif square…

 

w/ apple green ch 4 and join

 

Row 1: ch 3, 15 dc into ring (16 dc)

 

Row 2: 2 dc in 3, 2hdc in 2, 2dc in 11. Break off. Tidy ends. (28 dc, 4hdc)

 

 

 

Att white in any hdc st

 

Row 3: ch 5, tr in same st, work usual V-st in every other dc. Join and slst into space ( 15 V-st and 1 Tr V-st)

 

Row 4: ch 6, 3 tr in same st,{corner started} *3dc in next V-st, 2 hdc in next V-st, 3dc in next V-st, [3tr, ch2, 3tr] in next V-st* repeat this pattern around and continue to beginning sp, work 2 more tr in beg space and join. Slst into space

Row 5: ch 5, 3dc in same sp, work 3dc groups in every space with [3dc, ch2, 3dc] in corners, work 2 more dc in beg space and join. Break off and tidy ends.

 

 

Make 24 squares but on row 3 you should alter where you start so that your apples will face in different directions. When you start in a dc you will only make a regular V-st and not a Tr V-st. Just remember to put your Tr V-st into one of your hdc stitches. Rows 4 and 5 do not change.

 

Leaf : join dk green in middle of Tr V-st base. Ch 7 and join w/ slst in 1st ch. Break off and tidy all ends. I sometimes found that I had to secure the leaf in an upright position when I was working my ends in.

 

NOTE… I’m not convinced that you need the leaves to make them look like apples

 

Leaf square:

 

 

Non leaf Square:

 

 

 

Joining Motifs…

 

I joined my motifs by using a ch4 flat braid in continuous join method. Continuous join means you only have 2 tails to deal with at the end,

 

Continuous Join: http://crochetcabana.com/tutorials/joining_squares3a.htm

 

Video- 1 of 4

 

 

Flat braid join:

 

 

 

 

Edging: You should find/use any edging that you think would work for your ghan.

 

The dark green joining row became my first edging row.

 

2nd row, I worked a row of white ch 5 into each dk green loop.

 

3rd row: I did a dark red ch5 row working over the white row and into the dk green sc from the join row.

 

4th row: I did an apple green ch5 row working my sc into the white sc of edging row 2.

 

 

Copyright: Darlene Cutler - 2012

 

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[Peggy85225]

Thank you for the pattern.

[pinkroses]

so cute ; thanks for sharing it ; you do beautiful work. hugs

[lil_mama06]

Thank you for the pattern..Really cute.

[darski]

all for the kind words. :