Hello, lovely crafter! Welcome to the pattern for my Quarter-Mandala Square, part of the Gloria Blanket. I have written this pattern specifically with Scheepjes Catona in mind just to avoid confusion with so many yarn options.
For the Gloria Blanket CAL, please look for your yarn choice on the Week 9post. You will find specific yarn colors for each square, gauge, motif measurements, hook size, and lots more info on that post. In that post, scroll to your yarn choice and follow the steps to complete this week’s CAL work. You will refer back to this pattern to create the square.
The pattern is in US Terms and UK Terms (This post), and I provide step by step photos as well as a video which will release on Monday, Oct 5th on my YouTube channel.
Gloria Blanket CAL Quick Links
- Gloria Blanket CAL Main Info Page
- Gloria Blanket PDF Pattern Ravelry / Etsy / My Shop – As usual, the CAL will be released free every week here on my website, but I will offer the full blanket pattern in PDF form as soon as I write it up (I’ll have a date soon!)
- Instagram Sharing – I’m on Insta as @CypressTextiles. Hashtag your WIP and FO pics with #GloriaBlanket and #CypressTextiles so I can share and save them in my story highlights!
- CypressTextiles Tree Huggers Facebook Group – This is my main FB group (join!). Share your progress pics in this group if you like, and I will share CAL highlights there as well.
- YouTube Channel (Subscribe!) – Here I will be posting Gloria Blanket CAL pattern videos. Yay!
Social Media Hashtags: #GloriaBlanket and #CypressTextiles
Snowflake Square
This square was inspired by a photo of floor tiles that I saw in 2016 on the incredible Instagram account, @ihavethisthingwithfloors. After I saw that photo, I got to work designing the two motifs that are featured in this Gloria Blanket. The Snowflake Square will make a wonderful blanket on its own, but it is used in the Gloria Blanket as a foil to the Quarter-Mandala Square to break it up and add visual interest. Your first few motifs will require concentration, but after that, you should be able to sail through them in front of the telly.
You can use any amount of colors, one or many, to make this square. Here in this pattern, I use a background color plus two contrast colors, which I think you will really enjoy. Any color combination till be glorious – hence the name, Gloria! Hope you love the pattern! – Rachele C.
Details and Materials
Note: These details and materials are written for Catona yarn in general. Refer to the Week 9 CAL Post and find your yarn choice if you are using different yarn. Some notes for other versions will be given within the pattern, but please check the week 9 post first.
- Square measures 8in in Scheepjes Catona with a size 3mm hook, unblocked (I recommend blocking your squares before you join them.)
- To make each square, you need 8g each of 2 contrast colors (CC1 and CC2), plus 20g of main color (MC) (Ordering info below)
- 3mm hook
- 4 Stitch markers – Or use a small length of yarn, bobby pins, etc.
Order Yarn
For a variety of color, order the Scheepjes Catona 10g Colour Pack at the following shops. These are affiliate links, so shopping through them will help support CypressTextiles at no additional cost to you.
Order 50g balls of Scheepjes Catona background color from these shops. These are also affiliate links.
Stitch Guide (UK Terms)
- beg tr (dc, ch1) – counts as 1 tr
- beg dtr (dc, ch2) – counts as 1 dtr
- ch chain
- dc double crochet
- tr2tog (yoh, insert hook in next st, yoh, pull up lp, yoh, draw yarn through 2 lps on hook) 2 times, yoh, draw yarn through all 3 lps on hook
- tr3tog (yoh, insert hook in next st, yoh, pull up lp, yoh, draw yarn through 2 lps on hook) 3 times, yoh, draw yarn through all 4 lps on hook
- tr4tog (yoh, insert hook in next st, yoh, pull up lp, yoh, draw yarn through 2 lps on hook) 4 times, yoh, draw yarn through all 5 lps on hook
- dtr double treble crochet
- FPdtr Front Post double treble crochet
- htr half treble crochet
- lp loop
- MR (make ring) ch3, ss in third ch from hook
- rem remaining
- rep repeat
- RS right side
- ss slip stitch
- sk skip
- sp space
- st stitch
- tr treble crochet
- dtr4tog * yoh 2 times, insert hook in next st, (yoh, pull up lp, yoh, draw yarn through 2 lps on hook) 2 times, rep from * 3 times, yoh, draw yarn through all 4 lps on hook
- WS wrong side
- yoh yarn over hook
Instructions
Tips and Notes:
- To avoid having a lot of work when you are finished with the square, weave your ends after each time you cut the yarn. Please read the stitch guide for any abbreviations.
- Written instruction is followed by step-by-step photos with the respective snippet of instruction added above the photo for clarity.
- To get a neater result, I do not “chain up” for the first dc of the round/row; rather, I just jump straight into the first sc.
- Color Notes for the different CAL versions are added in where necessary. If you aren’t making this square for the Gloria Blanket CAL, just ignore these Color Notes.
Round 1
Rnd 1 (RS) Using MC, MR, (dc, ch1) 8 times, join round and change color by inserting hook in first dc and drawing CC1 (See color note below) through as if completing a slip st. [8 dc, 8 sp]
Gloria Blanket CAL Color Note
- Catona 10g Colour Pack Version – Use CC1.
- Cahlista 15g Colour Pack Version – Use CC1.
- Stone Washed / River Washed 10g Colour Pack Version – Use CC1.
- Metropolis 10g Colour Pack Version – Use CC throughout.
- Whirl + Whirlette Version – Use CC throughout.
- All other versions – Use CC throughout.
Step-by-step Photos
Using MC, MR, (dc, ch1) 8 times,
change color by inserting hook in first dc and drawing CC1 (See color note below) through as if completing a slip st.
Round 2
Rnd 2 (Beg tr, tr) in first ch-sp, (ch1, 2tr in next ch-sp) 7 times, ch1, ss in beg tr. [16 tr, 8 sp]
Step-by-step Photos
(Beg tr, tr) in first ch-sp,
(ch1, 2tr in next ch-sp) 7 times, ch1,
ss in beg tr.
Round 3
Rnd 3 Continuing with CC1, (beg tr, tr) in next st, (ch1, 2tr in next 2 tr sts) 7 times, ch1, 2tr in next st, close round and change color by inserting hook in beg tr and drawing MC through as if to complete the slip st. [32 tr, 8 sp]
Step-by-step Photos
Continuing with CC1, (beg tr, tr) in next st,
(ch1, 2tr in next 2 tr sts) 7 times, ch1,
2tr in next st, close round and change color by inserting hook in beg tr and drawing MC through as if to complete the slip st.
Round 4
Rnd 4 Continuing in MC, dc in next st, (dtr in ch-sp from Rnd 1, dc in next 4 sts) 8 times omitting final dc, ss in first dc, changing color to CC1 using same method as before. [8 dtr, 32 dc]
Step-by-step Photos
Continuing in MC, dc in next st,
(dtr in ch-sp from Rnd 1, dc in next 4 sts) 8 times omitting final dc,
ss in first dc, changing color to CC1 using same method as before.
Round 5
Rnd 5 Continuing with CC1, ss in next st, (beg tr, tr) in next st, (tr in next 2 sts, 2tr in next st, ch1, 2tr in next st) 8 times omitting final 2tr, ss in beg tr changing color to MC as before. [48 tr, 8 sp]
Step-by-step Photos
Continuing with CC1, ss in next st,
(beg tr, tr) in next st,
(tr in next 2 sts, 2tr in next st, ch1, 2tr in next st) 8 times omitting final 2tr, ss in beg tr changing color to MC as before.
Round 6
Rnd 6 Continuing with MC, (dc in next 5 sts, FPdtr around dtr from Row 4, dc in next st) 8 times, ss in first dc changing to CC1 as before. [8 FPdtr, 48 dc]
Step-by-step Photos
Continuing with MC, (dc in next 5 sts, FPdtr around dtr from Row 4, dc in next st) 8 times,
ss in first dc changing to CC1 as before.
Round 7
Rnd 7 Continuing with CC1, beg tr in next st, (tr in next 2 sts, 2tr in next st, ch1, 2tr in next st, tr in next 2 sts) 8 times omitting final tr, ss in beg tr changing color to MC as before. [64 tr, 8 sp]
Step-by-step Photos
Continuing with CC1, beg tr in next st,
(tr in next 2 sts, 2tr in next st, ch1, 2tr in next st, tr in next 2 sts) 8 times omitting final tr,
ss in beg tr changing color to MC as before.
Round 8
Rnd 8 Continuing in MC, (dc in next 4 sts, FPdtr around FPdtr from Row 6, dc in next 4 sts) 8 times, ss in first dc changing to CC1 as before. [8 FPdtr, 64 dc]
Step-by-step Photos
Continuing in MC, (dc in next 4 sts, FPdtr around FPdtr from Row 6, dc in next 4 sts) 8 times,
ss in first dc changing to CC1 as before.
Round 9
Note: For rounds 9-11, be sure to work over the dropped color.
Rnd 9 Continuing with CC1, beg tr in next st, (tr2tog changing color to MC on final step of tr2tog, using MC, 5tr in FPdtr changing color back to CC1 on final step of fifth tr, using CC1, tr2tog, tr in next 4 sts) 8 times omitting final tr, do not join round. [16 tr2tog, 72 tr]
Step-by-step Photos
Continuing with CC1 and this time working over MC, beg tr in next st,
(tr2tog changing color to MC on final step of tr2tog, working over CC1 make 5tr in FPdtr changing color back to CC1 on final step of fifth tr, working over MC tr2tog, tr in next 4 sts) 8 times omitting final tr,
do not join round.
Round 10
Rnd 10 Beg tr straight into beg tr st, tr in next st changing to MC on final step – these 2 sts count as 1 tr2tog, (using MC, 2tr in next 5 tr changing to CC1 in final step of tenth tr, using CC1, tr2tog, tr in next 2 sts, tr2tog changing to MC on final step) 8 times omitting final tr2tog, sk beg tr, ss in tr changing color to MC as before, cut CC1 unless instructed not to in color note below. [16 tr2tog, 96 tr]
Gloria Blanket CAL Color Note
- Catona 10g Colour Pack Version – Cut CC1.
- Cahlista 15g Colour Pack Version – Cut CC1.
- Stone Washed / River Washed 10g Colour Pack Version – Cut CC1.
- Metropolis 10g Colour Pack Version – Do not cut CC.
- Whirl + Whirlette Version – Do not cut CC.
- All other versions – Do not cut CC.
Step-by-step Photos
Working over MC make beg tr straight into beg tr st, tr in next st changing to MC on final step – these 2 sts count as 1 tr2tog,
(working over CC1 2tr in next 5 tr changing to CC1 in final step of tenth tr, working over MC tr2tog, tr in next 2 sts, tr2tog changing to MC on final step) 8 times omitting final tr2tog,
sk beg tr, ss in tr changing color to MC as before.
Round 11
Rnd 11 Continuing with MC, beg dtr in next st, dtr in same st, (2tr in next st, htr, dc in 4 sts, htr, 2tr in next st, 2dtr in next st changing to CC2 (see color note below) on final step of second dtr, using CC/CC2 dtr4tog changing to MC on final step of dtr4tog, using MC, 2dtr in next st) 8 times omitting final 2 dtr, using MC, ss in beg dtr, cut CC/CC2. [8 dtr4tog, 32 dtr, 32 tr, 16 htr, 32 dc]
Gloria Blanket CAL Color Note
- Catona 10g Colour Pack Version – Change to CC2.
- Cahlista 15g Colour Pack Version – Change to CC2.
- Stone Washed / River Washed 10g Colour Pack Version – Change to CC2.
- Metropolis 10g Colour Pack Version – Carry up CC – Use same CC throughout.
- Whirl + Whirlette Version – Carry up CC – Use same CC throughout.
- All other versions – Carry up CC – Use same CC throughout.
Step-by-step Photos
Continuing with MC, beg dtr in next st, dtr in same st,
(2tr in next st, htr, dc in 4 sts, htr, 2tr in next st, 2dtr in next st changing to CC2 (see color note below) on final step of second dtr, using CC/CC2 dtr4tog changing to MC on final step of dtr4tog, using MC, 2dtr in next st) 8 times omitting final 2 dtr,
using MC, ss in beg dtr.
Round 12
Rnd 12 (Dc in next 12 sts, 2dc in next st, dc in dtr4tog, 2dc in next st) 8 times, ss in first dc, cut MC. [136 dc]
Step-by-step Photos
(Dc in next 12 sts, 2dc in next st, dc in dtr4tog, 2dc in next st) 8 times,
ss in first dc.
Make Corner Triangle Fill
Row 1 Count 4 dc back on dc sts from Rnd 12, insert hook and bring CC/CC2 through, ss to secure lp, beg tr in same st, tr2tog – beg tr and tr2tog count as 1 tr3tog, tr in next 14 sts, tr3tog, turn. [2 tr3tog, 14 tr]
Step by step photos
Count 4 dc back on dc sts from Rnd 12, insert hook and bring CC/CC2 through,
ss to secure lp,
beg tr in same st,
tr2tog – beg tr and tr2tog count as 1 tr3tog,
tr in next 14 sts, tr3tog.
Row 2 Beg tr in tr3tog, tr2tog – counts as 1 tr3tog as before, (ch1, sk1, tr) 4 times, ch1, tr4tog, turn. [1 tr4tog, 1 tr3tog, 4 tr, 5 sp]
Step by step photos
Beg tr in tr3tog,
tr2tog – counts as 1 tr3tog as before,
(ch1, sk1, tr) 4 times, ch1, tr4tog.
Row 3 Beg tr in tr4tog, tr2tog – counts as 1 tr3tog as before, tr in next 5 sts/sps, tr3tog, turn. [2 tr3tog, 5 tr]
Step by step photos
Beg tr in tr4tog,
tr2tog – counts as 1 tr3tog as before,
tr in next 5 sts/sps, tr3tog.
Row 4 Beg tr in tr3tog, tr2tog – counts as 1 tr3tog as before, ch1, tr3tog, turn. [2 tr3tog, 1 sp]
Step by step photos
Beg tr in tr3tog, tr2tog – counts as 1 tr3tog as before,
ch1,tr3tog.
Row 5 Insert hook in tr3tog, yoh, pull up lp, rep in ch-sp and next tr3tog, yoh and draw yarn through all 4 lps on hook, cut yarn and weave ends.
Step by step photos
Insert hook in tr3tog, yoh, pull up lp, rep in ch-sp and next tr3tog,
yoh and draw yarn through all 4 lps on hook.
cut yarn and weave ends.
Using CC/CC2, repeat Corner Triangle Fill at other 3 corners of motif.
Square Border
Join MC in any corner, (3dc in corner, dc 34 evenly across) 4 times, ss in first dc, cut yarn and weave ends. [148 dc]
Finishing
Block square to same dimensions as your Quarter-Mandala Square.
The end! Give yourself a fist bump!
Hope you enjoy this square, and I can’t wait to see your WIP pics with all the awesome colors the community has picked. See you in the FB group and on IG!
Happy Crafting as always,
Rachele C.