Written Instructions:
Wool Eater Instructions
Crocheted Wool-Eater Blanket
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4mm crochet hook
Ch 6, join with a slip stitch to form a ring.
1st round: * ch 5, work 4 dtr (wrap yarn around hook twice) into the ring, ensure to leave the last remaining loop of each stitch on the hook as shown in the photo below,
now, yarn over and pull the yarn through all 5 loops on the hook.
{1 cluny group made}.
ch 5, slip stitch into the ring.
Rep from * 3 more times.
{4 cluny groups made}.
Round 2: * ch 2, work 12 dtr into the top of the cluny group, ch 2, slip stitch into the slip stitch of the previous round.
Rep from * 3 times.
Fasten off.
{4 corners made}.
Round 3: Join new colour in between any 4th and 5th dtr of the previous round.
Ch 5, working from the back around to the front of the stem of the dtr of the previous round, and out at the back, make a cluny group over the next 4 dtr, ch 5, slip stitch in between the 8th and 9th dtr of the previous round, ch 5, work a cluny group of 8 dtr over the next 8 dtr of the previous round, ch 5, slip stitch between the 4th and 5th dtr of the next 12 dtr corner group.
Continue working round in this manner, finishing with a slip stitch into where the contrast yarn was joined at the beginning of the round.
Round 4: Ch 2, 12 dtr into the top of the 4 cluny group, ch 2, slip stitch into slip stitch of the previous round, ch 2, 8 dtr into the top of the 8 cluny group, ch 2, slip stitch into slip stitch of the previous round.
Continue working round in this manner, finishing with a slip stitch.
Fasten off.
Take a look at the Flickr group:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/795003@N25/pool/
Sometimes Your Yarn Gets Eaten
We'd like to thank Benita Campbell Mann for posting not only this great photo in her search for the name of the stitch, but also finding an online tutorial on how to make the blanket. It is a beautiful work of crochet art and we bet it is warm, too.
Don't you love, too, how it is so colorful!
It's called a "Wool Eater Blanket". Benita gave this link to a YouTube tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edVGSzaGhKc.
One of the nice things about social media is that we help each other out. Sandy, one of our readers, also commented and gave this link for another source of instructions: http://sarahlondon.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/wool-eater-instructions/
We're sure there are other sources for the pattern and instructions on how to make it. We just know that it is beautiful! Thanks to everyone who has helped us discover "wool-eaters".
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