Block 43 of the Block a Week CAL (hosted by Kimberly Slifer) is Melissa Green’s Sadie Square. I don’t know if you remember Addie Square (week 25).  This Sadie Square uses the same first 7 rounds as the Addie Square, so we are sailing in familiar waters.

Sadie Crochet Square

{Pattern © 2014 Melissa Green. Photo tutorial done with kind permission}

Pattern

Available as a Free Ravelry Download.

Suggested Materials

• 5.5 mm Clover Amour Crochet Hook (US I/9 UK 5)
• Worsted weight yarn

Size

• Using the hook and yarn specified, your square should be a nice even 12″ when you are done.
• Using a 4 mm crochet hook (US G/6 UK 8) and double knit yarn, as I have done, your finished square will be about 8.5″ big.

 

My Yarn and Colour Choices

I am using Stylecraft Special DK.

• Saffron (Round 1)
• Fondant (Round 2)
• Pomegranate (Round 3)
• Lipstick (Round 4)
• Magenta (Round 5)
• Sherbet (Rounds 6 – 9)
• Turquoise (Round 10)
• Meadow (Rounds 11 – 13)

Notes

US Crochet Terminology used. (See this comparative chart if you need help transcribing from US to UK)

Special Stitches

See Addie Square Tutorial

Corrections

Round 9:  Stitch count reads (115 dc, 4 tr).  It should read (116 dc, 4 tr)

Sadie Square Photo Tutorial

This photo-walkthrough is NOT the actual pattern and should not be used instead of the pattern, but rather in conjunction with it.

Thank you very much to Melissa Green for giving us permission to do this photo-tutorial for her Sadie Square. And a special thank you to Kimberly Slifer for letting me do these tutorials and for obtaining the necessary permission.

Rounds 1-7

If you need help with Rounds 1 – 7, have a look at the detailed photo tutorial for Addie Square (Week 25).  The first 7 rounds of Sadie and Addie are exactly the same.  Do not worry if your flower buckles.  After a bit of (firm) blocking your square will be perfectly square and wonderfully wonderful.

Below you can see the first 5 Rounds of Sadie lying on top of the completed Addie.

And this is the first 7 Rounds done.

Round 8

As written in the pattern.

When you skip the first dc of any side, remember that you are skipping the first hidden stitch.  You want to end up with 15 dc’s and 12 ch-1 spaces per side.

Stitch count: 60 dc’s, 48 ch-1 spaces, and 4 ch-2 spaces  {15 dc’s and 12 ch-1 spaces per side}

Round 9

As written in the pattern.

Don’t accidentally skip the first (hidden) stitch after the corners.

Stitch count: 116 dc’s and 4 corner tr’s  {29 dc’s per side – not including the central corner tr}

Round 10

Join you new yarn by making a standing half-double crochet in the central tr of any corner.  (Hdc, ch 2, 2 hdc) in the same stitch.  This is your first corner made.

*Hdc in the next 3 st’s (Photo 1).  Make a dtr in the skipped stitch from Round 8 (indicated with an arrow in Photo 2 and illustrated in Photo 4).  You want to work in front of Round 9, so when inserting your hook into that stitch, make sure that you fold Round 9 out of the way – see Photo 3.

Skip the next st of Round 9 and make a hdc in the next stitch.  To make this easier for you, identify the dc’s from Round 8 (between the ch-1 spaces).  Now identify the dc’s made into those dc’s (NOT the dc’s made into the ch-1 spaces).  Each hdc after a skipped stitch should fall in a dc from Round 9 made into a dc from Round 8 – indicated with arrows in Photo 5.  Photo 6 shows the hdc made.

(Dtr in the next skipped stitch from Round 8.  Skip the next dc from Round 9 and make a hdc in the next dc) 11 more times.  Hdc in the last 2 dc’s.  (2 hdc, ch 2, 2 hdc) in the next stitch, which should be the central corner tr.*

Repeat from * to * 3 more times, omitting the last corner on the last repeat.  Join to the top of the standing hdc with a sl st.

Stitch count: 48 dtr’s, 84 hdc’s, and 4 ch-2 corner spaces  {12 dtr’s and 21 hdc’s per side}

Now isn’t that pretty?

Round 11

As written, BUT…

Right after the corner you are told to dc into the first 4 st’s.  To make the stitch-count work you should actually skip the first (hidden) stitch and make a dc in the next 4 st’s (Photo 1).  The first hdc after the corner is very tricky to get into anyway, so consider yourself lucky that you are skipping it :)

This round is slightly asymmetric.  Each side will have 4 dc’s at the start (not including 2 corner dc’s) and 5 dc’s at the end (not including 2 corner dc’s) – see Photos 1 and 2.

To make sure that you have started in the right stitch you can use the skipped stitches along the side as a landmark.  If you are skipping all the fptr’s, you have done it correctly.  If you are skipping the hdc’s between fptr’s, you have started in the wrong stitch/counted incorrectly.

Have a good look at Photos 1 and 2 below.  Can you see that each ch-1 space falls over a skipped fptr?

Stitch count: 96 dc’s, 48 ch-1 spaces, and 4 ch-2 corner spaces  {24 dc’s and 12 ch-1 spaces per side}

Round 12

As written.

Stitch count: 152 hdc’s and 4 dc’s  {38 hdc’s per side – not including central corner dc}

Round 13

I have altered my last round ever so slightly to allow for a ch-2 corner and to make the square 8.5″ like my other squares.  This is purely to make it easier to attach my final squares.  You can find the instructions for this alteration here.

Alternatively just do the last round as written.

Stitch count: 164 hdc’s  {40 hdc’s per side – not including central corner hdc}

 

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More Blogs Following the CAL

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• Lou Mander from Tea, Crochet and Me – using Stylecraft in White, Mocha and Raspberry
• Wendy from Little Wendy Crochet (Dutch photo tutorials)

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