It’s time for part 4 in our crochet along. We have already crocheted flowers so now I feel it’s time to add some leaves to the table runner. A branch with tiny spring leaves!

This part might seem difficult but read the text carefully and look at images and diagrams and I’m sure it will be alright.

For links to previous parts, information about materials and colors, please see the introduction and material post.

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 For pattern in Swedish please visit Järbo Garns blog.

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Abbreviations (US Terms) and symbols

st/sts – Stitch/stitches
ch – Chain
ch-3 – chain with three stitches
sc – Single crochet
hdc – Half double crochet
dc – Double crochet
sk –  Skip
tr3tog – Treble crochet three stitches together, see description below.
fpsc – Front post single crochet, see description below.
flo – Front loop only
blo – Back loop only
3lo – Third loop only
** – Repeat instructions between asterisks the amount of times specified.
() – Instructions inside parenthesis are made in the same stitch.

Special Stitches

Treble crochet 3 together (tr3tog) – *Yarn over twice, insert hook in specified st, pull up a loop , yarn over, pull through 2 loops, yarn over, pull through 2 loops* repeat 3 times.   (4 loops on hook), yarn over, pull through last 4 loops.

Front post single crochet (fpsc) – Insert hook from front to back around post of specified st, yarn over and pull up a loop, yarn over and draw through all loops on hook .

Read more about post stitches here.

Third loop (3lo) – In this pattern you will only crochet in the third loop when you hold the work with the wrong side facing you. In that case you will find the third loop below the front loop, see image below.

Standing stitches – link to description.

General

• Turn your work after each row. When you crochet odd rows you have the right side of the work facing you and when you crochet even rows you have the wrong side facing you.
• The first chain or chains on each round does not count as a stitch.
• Join the round with a sl st in the first st of the round if nothing else is described.
• Crochet through both loops of a stitch if nothing else is described.
• Crochet first and last stitch on rows crocheted in blo or flo through both loops to get more stable edges.
• Remember to check your stitch cound now and then. There are always 85 stitched on rows containing one stitch type only.
• Images are shown from the right side of the work if nothing else is described.

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Description

(Diagram below)

Use color A. Hold your work with the right side facing you when crocheting row 39.

Row 39:

Crochet in blo!

Ch 1 and make 1 sc in the same st or make a standing sc.
Make 1 sc in each st on row.

Change to color C!

Row 40:

Crochet in flo!

Ch 1 and make 1 hdc in the same st or make a standing hdc.
Make 1 hdc in next st, *sk  1 st, 1 hdc each in next 2 sts, 1 hdc in the st you just skipped *, repeat until there is 2 sts left on row.

Make 1 hdc each in the 2 last sts.

 

Row 41:

Ch 1, 1 hdc in each st on row.

 

Row 42:

Ch 2, 1 dc in first st, *ch 1, sk 1sts, 1 dc in next st* repeat until end of row.

Row 43:

Ch 1, 1 hdc in first st, *1 hdc in next ch-1, 1 hdc in next st* repeat until end of row.

 

Row 44 – 45:

Ch 1, 1 hdc in each st on row.

Row 46:

Ch 1, 1 hdc each in first 6 sts, * 1 hdc (3lo) in next st (see image below), 1 hdc each in next 5 sts * repeat until 13 sts left on row.

make 1 hdc (3lo) in next st, 1 hdc each in the last 12 sts on row.

We will now change to color A but do not cut the yarn, just pull out a big loop so that it does not unravel while crocheting row 47a.

Row 47a:

Start in st 5 on row. Ch 1 and make 1 sc (blo) in the same st or make a standing hdc (blo).

Make 1 sc each in the next 4 sts, *tr3tog in the free loops below to the left (see image) , sk 1 st, 1  sc (blo) each in next 5 sts*, repeat until you have made a tr3tog in the last free loops.

Sk 1 st and make 1 sc (blo) in next st .

Cut the yarn and fasten ends!

Note: The tiny leaves are only visible on the right side of your work!

Let’s go back to where we left the loop from row 46 and continue crocheting there!

Row 47b:

Ch 2 and make 1 dc each in the 4 first sts on row 46. After that we will go on crocheting in the stitches of row 47a.

Make 1 sc (blo) each in next 4 sts, * ch 1, sk 1 st, 1 sc (blo) each in next 5 sts * repeat until there are 3 sts left on row 47a. 

Make 1 dc each in the last 8 sts of row 46.

Row 48:

Ch 1 and make 1 hdc in  each st on row (including ch-1).

We will now change to color A again but do not cut the yarn, just pull out a big loop so that it does not unravel while crocheting row 49a.

Row 49a:

Start in the 10:th sts on row. Ch 1 and make 1 sc (blo )in the same st or make a standing sc (blo).

*tr3tog in the st that we skipped on row 47a below to the right (see image), sk 1 st, 1 sc (blo) each in next 5 sts* repeat until you have made a tr3tog in the last skipped st on row 47a.

Sk 1 st and make 1 sc (blo) in next st.

Cut the yarn and fasten ends!

Let’s go back to where we left the loop from row 48 and continue crocheting there!

Row 49b:

This row is crocheted in the sts of row 48, except for the post stitches that are made around the tr3tog on row 49a!

Make 1 hdc each in the first 9 sts. Make 1 hdc (flo) in next sts (i.e the in front of the first sc on row 49a).

*1 fpsc around next tr3tog, 1 hdc (flo) each in next 5 sts* repeat until you have made a fpsc around the last tr3tog on row.

Make 1 hdc (flo) in next st, 1 hdc each in the 7 last sts on row.

Row 50 – 51:

Ch 1, make 1 hdc in each st on row.

Row 52:

Ch 2, 1 dc in first st, *ch 1, sk 1sts, 1 dc in next st* repeat until end of row.

Row 53:

Ch 1, 1 hdc in first st, *1 hdc in next ch-1, 1 hdc in next st* repeat until end of row.

 

Row 54:

Ch 1,  1 hdc eachin next 2 sts, *sk  1 st, 1 hdc each in next 2 sts, 1 hdc in the st you just skipped *, repeat until there is 2 sts left on row.

Make 1 hdc each in the 2 last sts.

Change to color A!

Row 55:

Ch 1 and make 1 sc in the same st or make a standing sc.
Make 1 sc in each st on row.

When you have finished row 39 – 55 on one side you’ll repeat the rows on the other side of the table runner. And after that part 4 of Feeling of Spring CAL is finished!

Diagram

Row 39 – 48

Row 49a – 55

Happy crocheting!