2022 VVCAL
Published on April 22, 2022

2022 VVCAL: Saturn Motif

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Hello, and a huge welcome to Week 8 of the 2022 Vibrant Vintage Crochet-A-Long (VVCAL)! I can’t believe we are almost halfway! Remember on Week 11, the full pattern PDF will be released – on May, Friday the 13th!

Attention!

If you have not yet seen the Week 8 Instruction post, please head there first and see the instructions for the version that you are working. Below, you will find the Pulsar Motif pattern, in US, and UK Terms, Chart, Video, and Step by step photos.

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Saturn Motif

Find the Ravelry Page for this motif here and add your project!

The Cosmos: Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It has 62 known moons. Here are some interesting Saturn facts!

  • Saturn is the most distant planet that can be seen with the naked eye. It is the fifth brightest object in the solar system and is also easily studied through binoculars or a small telescope. Saturn was known to the ancients, including the Babylonians and Far Eastern observers. It is named for the Roman god Saturnus, and was known to the Greeks as Cronus. [More]
  • Saturn is the least dense planet in the Solar System with a density of 0.687 grams/cubic centimeter. Just for comparison, water is 1 g/cm3 and the Earth is 5.52. Since Saturn is less dense than water, it would actually float like an apple if you could find a pool large enough. About two tons of Saturn’s mass came from Earth—the Cassini spacecraft was intentionally vaporized in Saturn’s atmosphere in 2017. [More]
  • Saturn is a flattened ball that spins so quickly on its axis that the planet flattens itself out into an oblate spheroid. You see this by eye when you look at a picture of Saturn; it looks squished, because the rapid spinning causes the equator to bulge out. While the distance from the center to the poles is 54,000 km, the distance from the center to the equator is 60,300 km. We have a similar phenomenon here on Earth, where points on the equator are more distant from the center of the Earth, but on Saturn, it’s much more extreme. [More]
  • Its beautiful rings are not solid. They are made up of bits of ice, dust and rock. Some of these bits are as small as grains of sand, and some are much larger than tall buildings, up to a kilometer (more than half-a-mile) across. The rings are huge but thin. The main rings could almost go from Earth to the moon, and yet they are less than a kilometer thick. While other planets have rings, Saturn’s are the only ones that can be seen from Earth. All you need is a small telescope. [More]
  • Saturn shares some similarities with Jupiter. Just like Jupiter, Saturn has an inner mantle made of metallic hydrogen, due to its heat and pressure. Under those conditions, hydrogen turns from a gas into a metallic liquid, which also generates Saturn’s powerful magnetic field. Compared to Jupiter’s outer mantle, Saturn’s has more helium. Unlike Jupiter’s fragmented core, all evidence points to Saturn’s core existing in one piece. Saturn generates radio waves of its own. This is yet another similarity it shares with Jupiter, but Saturn’s radio waves aren’t nearly as strong as those of Jupiter’s. Much like with the planet’s magnetic field, scientists believe that reactions in the metallic hydrogen in Saturn’s depths produces its radio waves. [More]

Saturn Motif Pattern

Reference

Chart

Note: Chart is meant as a visual guide to the written instruction and might not be able to stand alone due to special stitches.

Video

Note: Video is spoken in US Terms. Watch on mute to avoid confusion for UK Terms,

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Stitch Guide (US Terms)

Note: Scroll down for UK Terms.

  • 2dccl 2dc cluster: (yoh, insert hook in st/sp, yoh, pull up lp, yoh, draw yarn through 2 lps) 2 times, yoh, draw yarn through 3 lps
  • 3dccl 3dc cluster: (yoh, insert hook in st/sp, yoh, pull up lp, yoh, draw yarn through 2 lps) 3 times, yoh, draw yarn through 4 lps
  • 3trpc 3 treble popcorn: 3tr in st/sp indicated, remove lp from hook, insert hook front to back through first tr, grab lp, pull to front of work to close 3trpc
  • beg beginning
  • beg 3dccl (beg dc, 2dccl) in same st/sp – counts as 1 3dccl
  • beg 3trpc beginning 3 treble popcorn: (beg tr, 2tr) in st/sp, remove lp from hook, insert hook front to back through beg tr, grab lp, pull lp to front of work to close beg 3trpc
  • beg dc (1sc, ch1) – counts as 1 dc
  • beg dc5tog beg dc, (yoh insert hook into next st/sp, yoh, pull up lp, yoh, draw yarn through 2 lps) 4 times, yoh, draw yarn through 5 lps on hook
  • chN chain N number of times
  • dc double crochet
  • dc5tog (yoh insert hook into next st/sp, yoh, pull up lp, yoh, draw yarn through 2 lps) 5 times, yoh, draw yarn through 6 lps on hook
  • dtr double treble crochet (wrap yarn 3 times)
  • hdc half double crochet
  • lp loop
  • MR make ring: slip knot, ch3, ss in third ch from hook
  • sc single crochet
  • sp space (ch-sp = chain space)
  • ss slip stitch
  • st stitch
  • tr treble crochet
  • yoh yarn over hook

Written Instructions & Step-by-step Photos (US Terms)

Rnd 1 MR, beg 3dccl, [ch3, 3dccl] 3 times, ch3, ss in beg 3dccl. [4 3dccl, 4 sp]

Rnd 2 Beg 3trpc in first ch-sp, [(ch2, 3trpc in same ch-sp) 2 times, ch2, 3trpc in next ch-sp] 4 times omitting final 3trpc, ss in beg 3trpc. [12 3trpc, 12 sp]

Rnd 3 Beg dc in first ch-sp, [4dc in same ch-sp, 1dc in next ch-sp] 12 times omitting final dc, ss in beg dc. [60 dc]

Rnd 4 Beg dc5tog over first 5 dc, [ch5, dc5tog over next 5 dc] 11 times, ch5, ss in beg dc5tog. [12 dc5tog, 12 sp]

Rnd 5 [(3sc, 2hdc) in next ch-sp, ch2, (2hdc, 3sc) in next ch-sp, 1sc in next dc5tog] 6 times, ss in first sc. [24 hdc, 42 sc, 6 sp]

Rnd 6 [4sc, 3sc in ch-sp, 7sc] 6 times, ss in first sc, cut yarn and weave ends. [84 sc]

Stitch Guide (UK Terms)

  • 2trcl 2tr cluster: (yoh, insert hook in st/sp, yoh, pull up lp, yoh, draw yarn through 2 lps) 2 times, yoh, draw yarn through 3 lps
  • 3trcl 3tr cluster: (yoh, insert hook in st/sp, yoh, pull up lp, yoh, draw yarn through 2 lps) 3 times, yoh, draw yarn through 4 lps
  • 3dtrpc 3 double treble popcorn: 3tr in st/sp indicated, remove lp from hook, insert hook front to back through first tr, grab lp, pull to front of work to close 3dtrpc
  • beg beginning
  • beg 3trcl (beg tr, 2trcl) in same st/sp – counts as 1 3trcl
  • beg 3dtrpc beginning 3 double treble popcorn: (beg dtr, 2dtr) in st/sp, remove lp from hook, insert hook front to back through beg tr, grab lp, pull lp to front of work to close beg 3dtrpc
  • beg tr (1dc, ch1) – counts as 1 tr
  • beg tr5tog beg tr, (yoh insert hook into next st/sp, yoh, pull up lp, yoh, draw yarn through 2 lps) 4 times, yoh, draw yarn through 5 lps on hook
  • chN chain N number of times
  • dc double crochet
  • tr5tog (yoh insert hook into next st/sp, yoh, pull up lp, yoh, draw yarn through 2 lps) 5 times, yoh, draw yarn through 6 lps on hook
  • dtr double treble crochet
  • htr half treble crochet
  • lp loop
  • MR make ring: slip knot, ch3, ss in third ch from hook
  • sp space (ch-sp = chain space)
  • ss slip stitch
  • st stitch
  • ttr triple treble crochet (wrap yarn 3 times)
  • yoh yarn over hook

Written Instructions & Step-by-step Photos (UK Terms)

Rnd 1 MR, beg 3trcl, [ch3, 3trcl] 3 times, ch3, ss in beg 3trcl. [4 3trcl, 4 sp]

Rnd 2 Beg 3dtrpc in first ch-sp, [(ch2, 3dtrpc in same ch-sp) 2 times, ch2, 3dtrpc in next ch-sp] 4 times omitting final 3dtrpc, ss in beg 3dtrpc. [12 3dtrpc, 12 sp]

Rnd 3 Beg tr in first ch-sp, [4tr in same ch-sp, 1tr in next ch-sp] 12 times omitting final tr, ss in beg tr. [60 tr]

Rnd 4 Beg tr5tog over first 5 tr, [ch5, tr5tog over next 5 tr] 11 times, ch5, ss in beg tr5tog. [12 tr5tog, 12 sp]

Rnd 5 [(3dc, 2htr) in next ch-sp, ch2, (2htr, 3dc) in next ch-sp, 1dc in next tr5tog] 6 times, ss in first dc. [24 htr, 42 dc, 6 sp]

Rnd 6 [4dc, 3dc in ch-sp, 7dc] 6 times, ss in first dc, cut yarn and weave ends. [84 dc]

Links to Weekly Instruction Posts

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