2022 VVCAL
Published on May 6, 2022

2022 VVCAL: Evil Eye Galaxy Motif

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Hello, and a huge welcome to Week 10 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!

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If you have not yet seen the Week 10 Instruction post, please head there first and see the instructions for the version that you are working. Below, you will find the Evil Eye Galaxy Motif pattern, in US, and UK Terms, Chart, Video, and Step by step photos.

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Evil Eye Galaxy Motif

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The Cosmos: Evil Eye Galaxy

The Black Eye Galaxy (also called Sleeping Beauty Galaxy or Evil Eye Galaxy) is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy 17 million light-years away in the mildly northern constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair). Here are some interesting Evil Eye Galaxy facts!

  • The Evil Eye Galaxy was discovered by Edward Pigott on March 23, 1779, just 12 days before Johann Elert Bode found it independently on April 4, 1779. Roughly a year later, Charles Messier independently rediscovered it on March 1, 1780 and cataloged it as M64. However, Pigott’s discovery got published only when read before the Royal Society in London on January 11, 1781, while Bode’s was published during 1779 and Messier’s in late summer, 1780. Pigott’s discovery was more or less ignored and recovered only by Bryn Jones in April 2002! [More]
  • The galaxy is known for the enormous light-absorbing dust band in front of its central region, which gives the galaxy its name. This spectacular dark band obscures the stars in the galaxy’s bright core, yet it is still a popular target for amateur astronomers because it can be observed even in a small telescope or binoculars. A large telescope reveals the bright nucleus and the many arms spiraling outwards in the galaxy’s inner region. It is hard to note as a spiral galaxy because the arms are wound so tightly.
  • The galaxy is also known for being composed of two counter-rotating disks, roughly equal in mass. The inner disk contains the galaxy’s spectacular dust clouds and lanes. All the stars in the Black Eye Galaxy rotate in the same direction as the gas in its core region, clockwise, while the gas in the outer regions rotates in the other direction. As the two disks are rotating in opposite directions, this may explain the intense starburst activity with the galaxy. The gases in the disks collide, which results in new star formation. The Black Eye Galaxy is home to about 100 billion stars. [More]
  • Active formation of new stars is occurring in the shear region where the oppositely rotating gases collide, are compressed, and contract. Particularly noticeable in the image are hot, blue young stars that have just formed, along with pink clouds of glowing hydrogen gas that fluoresce when exposed to ultraviolet light from newly formed stars. Astronomers believe that the oppositely rotating gas arose when M64 absorbed a satellite galaxy that collided with it, perhaps more than one billion years ago. This small galaxy has now been almost completely destroyed, but signs of the collision persist in the backward motion of gas at the outer edge of M64. [More]

Evil Eye Galaxy Motif Pattern

Scroll down past written instruction for chart and video.

Reference

Stitch Guide (US Terms)

Note: Scroll down for UK Terms.

  • 2dccl 2 dc cluster: [yoh, insert hook in st/sp, yoh, pull up lp, yoh, draw yarn through 2 lps on hook] 2 times, yoh, draw yarn through all 3 lps
  • beg beginning
  • beg 2dccl (beg dc, 1dc) in st/sp – counts as 1 2dccl
  • beg dc (1sc, ch1) – counts as 1 dc
  • chN chain N number of times
  • dc double crochet
  • lp loop
  • MR make ring: slip knot, ch3, ss in third ch from hook
  • puff st (yoh, insert hook in st/sp, pull up lp) 3 times, yoh, draw yarn through all 7 lps
  • 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 2dccl, [ch2, 2dccl] 5 times, ch2, ss in beg 2dccl. [6 2dccl, 6 sp]

Rnd 2 Elongate lp to height of a puff st, [puff st, ch2] 2 times in all 6 sps, ss in top of first puff st. [12 puff sts, 12 sps]

Rnd 3 3sc in 12 sps, ss in first sc. [36 sc]

Note: tr sts on Rnd 4 should be squashed toward you in order to make tiny bobbles.

Rnd 4 1sc in next st, * (1tr, 1sc) in same st, [1tr, 1sc] 3 times, rep from * 5 times omitting final sc, ss in first sc [24 tr, 24 sc]

Stop and give your motif a smooch! Isn’t it the cutest! Okay, on to Round 5.

Rnd 5 [1sc in sc, ch2] 24 times, ss in first sc. [24 sc, 24 sp]

Rnd 6 [3sc in next ch-sp, 2sc in next ch-sp] 12 times, ss in first sc. [60 sc]

Rnd 7 Beg dc in next st, * ch1, 1dc in same st, [ch1, sk1, 1dc] 5 times, rep from * 5 times omitting final dc, ss in beg dc. [36 dc, 36 sp]

Rnd 8 [3sc in next ch-sp, 11sc] 6 times, ss in first sc, cut yarn and weave ends. [84 sc]

Stitch Guide (UK Terms)

  • 2trcl 2 tr cluster: [yoh, insert hook in st/sp, yoh, pull up lp, yoh, draw yarn through 2 lps on hook] 2 times, yoh, draw yarn through all 3 lps
  • beg beginning
  • beg 2trcl (beg tr, 1tr) in st/sp – counts as 1 2trcl
  • beg tr (1dc, ch1) – counts as 1 tr
  • chN chain N number of times
  • dc double crochet
  • dtr double treble crochet
  • lp loop
  • MR make ring: slip knot, ch3, ss in third ch from hook
  • puff st (yoh, insert hook in st/sp, pull up lp) 3 times, yoh, draw yarn through all 7 lps
  • sp space (ch-sp = chain space)
  • ss slip stitch
  • st stitch
  • tr treble crochet
  • yoh yarn over hook

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

Rnd 1 MR, beg 2trcl, [ch2, 2trcl] 5 times, ch2, ss in beg 2trcl. [6 2trcl, 6 sp]

Rnd 2 Elongate lp to height of a puff st, [puff st, ch2] 2 times in all 6 sps, ss in top of first puff st. [12 puff sts, 12 sps]

Rnd 3 3dc in 12 sps, ss in first dc. [36 dc]

Note: dtr sts on Rnd 4 should be squashed toward you in order to make tiny bobbles.

Rnd 4 1dc in next st, * (1dtr, 1dc) in same st, [1dtr, 1dc] 3 times, rep from * 5 times omitting final dc, ss in first dc [24 dtr, 24 dc]

Stop and give your motif a smooch! Isn’t it the cutest! Okay, on to Round 5.

Rnd 5 [1dc in dc, ch2] 24 times, ss in first dc. [24 dc, 24 sp]

Rnd 6 [3dc in next ch-sp, 2dc in next ch-sp] 12 times, ss in first dc. [60 dc]

Rnd 7 Beg tr in next st, * ch1, 1tr in same st, [ch1, sk1, 1tr] 5 times, rep from * 5 times omitting final tr, ss in beg tr. [36 tr, 36 ch]

Rnd 8 [3dc in next ch-sp, 11dc] 6 times, ss in first dc, cut yarn and weave ends. [84 dc]

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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