Tunisian Crochet Blanket CAL 2021 – Square #4

Welcome to square 4 of the Tunisian Blanket CAL of 2021! This is my first CAL where I am collaborating with other designers. I am going to make my blanket / afghan with everyone and hope to learn some new Tunisian crochet stitches and techniques along the way 🙂

If you are new to the CAL, click here to find all the introductory information including the schedule, supplies, and giveaways.

If you are new to Tunisian crochet, I hosted a CAL in 2020 that was designed to teach Tunisian crochet to beginners. If this one seems advanced, you are welcome to check that out and practice a few basic stitches before you come back to this one. Click here to view the beginner CAL of 2020.

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Square #4 – Stashdown Square – designed by Capital Crochet

Square #4 is the perfect stash busting square designed by Capital Crochet. You can use yarn from your stash or pick the colors specific to your blanket to make this. It is made up of Tunisian Knit Stitches and uses the join-as-you-go technique to join different sections of the square.

Here is my square – I made it with 3 colors of the Wool of the Andes Superwash yarn by KnitPicks.

My Notes

Here are some things I noted while working on the square:

1. This is a very easy square to make, but needs your attention because it is easy to miss Knit Stitches while crocheting.
2. It is important to count your stitches while making OR at the end of every forward pass.
3. The pattern is fully customizable and can and it is very easy to make adjustments to this square because of the way it is constructed – see the Adjustments section below.
4. This square used more yarn than all previous squares – this is mostly because of the Knit Stitch which is shorter and more dense than the stitches that we have used in earlier squares.

Adjustments

1. Height – Add / remove rows as needed from either section.
2. Width – Add / remove stitches as needed from either section.

It is very easy to correct the shape of the square by modifying the number of stitches and rows of the last section – it requires no frogging at all!

Helpful Links and Tunisian Crochet Tutorials (Left and Right handed)

1. Tunisian Knit Stitch
2. Join as you go
3. Foundation Row
4. How to bind off a Tunisian Crochet project
5. How to block a crochet blanket/afghan
6. Tunisian crochet hooks’ review
7. Tunisian crochet basics

Click here to view the Playlist on YouTube that contains all my tutorials that will be helpful throughout the CAL. You can also subscribe to my channel!

What I did

I used 3 colors of the Wool of the Andes Superwash yarn to make my block and placed them as follows:

Section A – Alternating rows of Amethyst Heather and White
Section B – Amethyst Heather
Section C – Alternating Cobblestone Heather, White, and Amethyst Heather (2 rows each). I added 2 extra rows to end with a White row
Section D – Amethyst Heather

I used a 8 mm Tunisian crochet hook to make this square.

I used the stitch markers from Walnut Farm Design to keep track of my stitches and I wet blocked my square by soaking it in warm water and pinning it to my blocking mat until dry.

Yardage and Size

My square is 12″ x 12″ in size (along the edges) and used about 125 yards (115 m) of yarn and weighs 2.19 oz (62 gms).

Front and Back

The pattern

The pattern is available for free on the designer’s website:

CLICK HERE FOR THE PATTERN OF SQUARE #4 BY CAPITAL CROCHET

Important notes

The copyright for each pattern is held by the designer. You may ask for additional resources and tutorials from the designer of the square only. No one else can make a full tutorial of the pattern unless permitted by the designer. I have included my notes and links to my tutorials that I think might be helpful in making the square but those do not supersede the instructions and tutorials provided by the designer.

The only way for me to be able to provide this CAL for free is to monetize my blog through ads and affiliate links. Please consider making a purchase from my links because that gives me a small commission without any additional cost to you. If the ads bother you, you could copy the content of this post into a separate document and print (be aware that this page contains a lot of images which you might want to delete before you hit the print button).

Share your squares!

I’d love to see your squares! Please share them on your social media with the tags @knitterknotter,  #knitterknottertunisianblanketcal2021 and #knitterknotter so that I can find them.

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Thank you for joining me on this CAL! I hope you will enjoy working on your squares and that we can all learn some interesting stitches and techniques along the way.

Disclaimer: Materials provided by KnitPicks, KnitIQ, Clover USA, and Walnut Farm Designs; this post contains affiliate links.

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