Desperate for this pattern

[TwoInTheMourning]

In UK English. happy to pay!
giuliana-dicuore.blogspot.it/2014/04/granny-square-finita.html

[tribpot]

Do you have the Google Translate Chrome extension? It will translate the page for you when it detects one in a foreign language. I have had a marvellous time looking at that page and 'how to make the blanket grandmother'

I think however the pattern itself is a chart? giuliana-dicuore.blogspot.it/2010/03/tutorial-granny-square.html

One of the hookers will be along shortly I'm sure, but this looks like a bog standard granny square to my untrained eye?

[AnyaKnowIt]

First one look like its got a puff stitch in it

[AnyaKnowIt]

How about this bunnymummy-jacquie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/daisy-granny-square-pattern.html

Its in US terms but has step by step pictures

[TheWoollybacksWife]

It looks very similar to the square used in the summer garden throw on the Attic24 blog (or the "blog of the Lucy" as Guiliana refers to it) She definitely uses Lucy's "join-as-you-go" method to join the squares together.

The chart that tribpot linked to is relatively easy to follow - but she hasn't published a key to the symbols which is very confusing. I can write it out in UK terms if you want.

[TwoInTheMourning]

Thank you tribpot. I don't feel confident about the chart, I'm quite a new crocheter. And if I'm going to attempt this blanket I need step by step instructions.

[TwoInTheMourning]

TheWoollybacksWife would you please?? Also, join as you go, would that be better than just creating the squares and sewing at the end? Does the end result look different?

Thank you Anya, looking at those links now

[TheWoollybacksWife]

OK. I'm happy to write out the instructions for you but I'm off out to the cinema with two small boys in ten minutes. So I'll do it this afternoon if I'm not a gibbering wreck.

I only got the hang of charts a year or so ago and I have been crocheting for nearly 40 years.

[TheWoollybacksWife]

I love join as you go but I'm a lazy trout

Lucy does a fab photo tutorial - I do it very slightly differently to her but I based my version on hers.

[TwoInTheMourning]

Thank you TheWoollybacksWife , I really appreciate that. I only learned how to crochet about a year ago, having been a knitter all my life. Charts look like a mathematical equation to me.

I have made several granny stripe blankets and now I'm ready for something different. I love the Italian little squares blanket, I do worry I'll make a mess of the joining though.

Lucy's tutorial I could follow, but the end result doesn't look quite like the Italian blanket. The flower is less puffy.

[OwlCapone]

Nothing in the Italian pattern explains why the "petals" are puffier. It looks like they should be puff stitches but according to both the chart and the photos they aren't - it's just a standard granny square.

[TwoInTheMourning]

the plot thickens...

[OwlCapone]

Let me see if I can work it out... I have 4 tonnes of Stylecraft within grabbing distance...

[Bedofwool]

I think the petals are an optical illusion - they look puffy because they are quite bold against the the other colours. In the second picture you get a slightly better idea. I think they are three triples joined together and very much like Attic24's blanket.

[Bedofwool]

Sorry meant to say also it is a lovely blanket. Might have a go once I have finished my Attic24 ripple blanket. sometime in the next 10yrs then

[TheWoollybacksWife]

The commentary under the chart seems to indicate that the first two rounds are "clustered trebles" rather than straightforward trebles, then the final round is normal trebles. I'm working on a test square and will report back when I can get it to look right. The chart (if I'm interpreting it correctly) also shows a front post treble is used for the groups between the corners - but there is a gap in the row below so no post to work around.

Very thick plot now

[OwlCapone]

The chart is wrong insofar as it doesn't correspond to the photos below.

[TwoInTheMourning]

Wow you're all amazing

[OwlCapone]

Google translate implies she has amended the chart to use a single chain between treble groups.

[OwlCapone]

She's using a 3.5mm hook... Would that make a difference? I can't make mine puff.

[OwlCapone]

Hmmm... Slightly puffy.

3.5mm hook.
1 chain between treble groups.
Turn the centre over before working the second row and turn over again for the third.

Not sure it puffs enough though.

[Catsmamma]

i would say from the chart it looks like a standard granny BUT

in the last round the central chain gap is one chain one treble one chain

and another BUT

the central treble is worked into the centre stitch of the first round treble

1)so make your loop
2) 1st round: do four groups of three trebles with three chains between them
3) 2nd round: do your four corners, each 3 treble/3chain/3 treble with a single chain between them
4) 3rd round: same principal for each of the corners, but you space each corner with a chain, a treble down to the centre treble in the first round, chain and then next corner.

I'll give that a whirl and see if I can get a picture.

[TheWoollybacksWife]

This is mine

1st round was "treble clusters" with 3 chains in between. Fasten off and turn work over.

2nd round was "treble clusters" with three chains in the corners and 1 chain for the side. Fasten off and turn work over.

3rd round normal trebles with three chains in the corners and 1 chain between clusters at the side.

Treble cluster at start of round = 3 chain, (one loop on hook) *yarn over hook, (two loops on hook) hook into chain space and draw through (three loops on hook) yarn over hook and draw through first two loops (two loops on hook). Repeat from *once more (three loops on hook) draw yarn through all loops.

Treble cluster for the rest of the round = don't start with the chain and work from **three times.

I can do photos if you need them.

[OwlCapone]

If you look at the commentary under the photos, there's only one chain between each treble group of the first and second rounds.

[Catsmamma]

IThis is mine as described in last part.... I did three colours to show the long treble...It is a bit puckered but I think that would vanish when joined and then give the pouff .