2022 VVCAL
Published on June 17, 2022

2022 VVCAL: Galaxia Motif

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Hello, and a huge welcome to Week 16 of the 2022 Vibrant Vintage Crochet-A-Long (VVCAL)! The PDF is released! Enjoy!

PDF Version

Announcement! The 2022 VVCAL full PDF is now available to purchase from Etsy and Ravelry.

  • 42-Page PDF of the entire 2022 VVCAL
  • 36 full mix-and-match hexagons plus 2 half hexagons
  • 2 joining options plus border
  • All motifs have charted and written instructions
  • 2.5 pages of tips and tricks
  • Full layouts, motif progress tracker checklist, and yarn information for Scheepjes Catona Colour Pack, SW/RW Colour Pack (1 or 2 packs), and Metropolis Pack
  • Guidance and blank layout for Colour Crafter and Chunky Monkey stash yarn

Attention!

If you have not yet seen the Week 16 Instruction post, please head there first and see the instructions for the version that you are working. Below, you will find the Galaxia Motif pattern, in US, and UK Terms, Chart, Video, and Step by step photos.

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Galaxia Motif

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

The Cosmos: Galaxia

A galaxy is a huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems, all held together by gravity. Here are some interesting facts about galaxies!

  • There are about 170 billion galaxies in the observable universe. How do galaxies form? The Big Bang Theory theory states that the universe started as a hot single point that expanded and cooled down, and even now it is still expanding! The universe is so big that light from distant galaxies takes millions or even billions of years to reach us. By the time it reaches us, what we actually see is what it looked like in the past. The galaxies have long been here before us so thinking about how they came to be is quite a challenge. According to one theory, the universe started mainly with the light elements hydrogen and helium. Some areas became denser until more particles accumulated into swirling clouds. As these clouds grew bigger, they started to collapse because of gravity, then merge with other clouds and become even bigger. As they swirled and merged, the clouds continued to collapse and formed the stars. Another theory holds that the stars were formed first before the galaxies. It could be that the collection of dust and gas gave birth to stars and then those stars started to form groups or star clusters. These globular clusters continued to merge with other clusters, becoming the bigger galaxies we know today. Until now, the galaxies are still interacting and evolving. We have seen some that are in the process of merging, and usually, the bigger ones gobble up the smaller galaxies. In fact, our Milky Way galaxy has swallowed about 12 galaxies already. Also, it is projected to collide with its largest spiral neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy, roughly 4.5 billion years from now. [More]
  • Eighteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant was one of the first people to theorize that the Milky Way was not the only galaxy in the universe. Kant coined the term island universe to describe a galaxy. Astronomers now estimate that there are 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe. One of the earliest uses of the English term Milky Way was in Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th-century poem “The House of Fame.” He likened the galaxy to a celestial roadway. In 1924, Astronomer Edwin Hubble announced that the spiral nebula Andromeda is actually a galaxy and that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in the universe. Before Copernicus and Galileo, humans thought our world was the center of creation. [More]
  • Galaxies can range in size from a dwarf with as few as ten million stars to massive giant galaxies with a hundred trillion stars. Each star orbits its galaxy’s own center of mass. In almost every galaxy (including our own), the source of gravity is a supermassive black hole at its center. You can’t see the enormous black hole lurking in the center of the Milky Way, though if you’ve ever looked at the constellation Sagittarius, the archer, you’ve looked in the right direction.[More]
  • Two of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way — the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Large Magellanic Cloud — may not have black holes. Or, because both are low-mass galaxies, their central black holes may be too small to detect. Every galaxy does have dust, though. Produced by stars, the dust causes light to look redder than it really is when observed visually, which can make it difficult for astronomers studying properties of stars. That dust can really travel, too. Some galaxies drive galactic winds, expelling dust and gas at hundreds of kilometers per second into the intergalactic medium, the space between galaxies. These winds are caused by starlight exerting pressure on the dust and gas; the fastest galactic winds are in distant galaxies that are forming stars more rapidly than the Milky Way. [More]
In a breathtaking image of hundreds of galaxies, the Hubble Space Telescope provides an incredible display of a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing.

Galaxia Motif Pattern

Scroll down past written instruction for chart and video.

Reference

Stitch Guide (US Terms)

Note: Scroll down for UK Terms.

  • beg beginning
  • 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
  • sc single crochet
  • sp space (ch-sp = chain space)
  • ss slip stitch
  • st stitch
  • yoh yarn over hook

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

Rnd 1 MR, beg dc, [ch1, 2dc] 5 times, ch1, 1dc, ss in beg dc. [12 dc, 6 sp]

Rnd 2 [(1sc, ch3, 1sc) in next ch-sp, ch3] 6 times, ss in first sc. [12 sc, 12 sp] 

Rnd 3 Ss in 1 ch, beg dc in same ch-sp, [(1dc, ch1, 2dc) in same ch-sp, 2dc in next ch-sp, 1dc in next ch-sp] 6 times omt final dc, ss in beg dc. [36 dc, 6 sp]

Rnd 4 [1sc in next st, 3sc in next ch-sp, 5sc] 6 times, ss in first sc. [54 sc]

Rnd 5 Ss in next st, * (1sc, ch3, 1sc) in next st, [ch3, sk2, 1sc] 2 times, ch3, sk2, rep from * 5 times, ss in first sc. [24 sc, 24 sp] 

Rnd 6 Ss in 1 ch, beg dc in same ch-sp, [ch1, 2dc in same ch-sp, 2dc in next ch-sp, 3dc in next ch-sp, 2dc in next 2 ch-sps] 6 times omt final dc, ss in beg dc. [66 dc, 6 sp]

Rnd 7 [3sc in ch-sp, 11sc] 6 times, ss in first sc, cut yarn and weave ends. [84 sc]

Stitch Guide (UK Terms)

  • beg beginning
  • beg tr (1dc, ch1) – counts as 1 tr
  • chN chain N number of times
  • dc double 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
  • tr treble crochet
  • yoh yarn over hook

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

Rnd 1 MR, beg tr, [ch1, 2tr] 5 times, ch1, 1tr, ss in beg tr. [12 tr, 6 sp]

Rnd 2 [(1dc, ch3, 1dc) in next ch-sp, ch3] 6 times, ss in first dc. [12 dc, 12 sp] 

Rnd 3 Ss in 1 ch, beg tr in same ch-sp, [(1tr, ch1, 2tr) in same ch-sp, 2tr in next ch-sp, 1tr in next ch-sp] 6 times omt final tr, ss in beg tr. [36 tr, 6 sp]

Rnd 4 [1dc in next st, 3dc in next ch-sp, 5dc] 6 times, ss in first dc. [54 dc]

Rnd 5 Ss in next st, * (1dc, ch3, 1dc) in next st, [ch3, sk2, 1dc] 2 times, ch3, sk2, rep from * 5 times, ss in first dc. [24 dc, 24 sp] 

Rnd 6 Ss in 1 ch, beg tr in same ch-sp, [ch1, 2tr in same ch-sp, 2tr in next ch-sp, 3tr in next ch-sp, 2tr in next 2 ch-sps] 6 times omt final tr, ss in beg tr. [66 tr, 6 sp]

Rnd 7 [3dc in 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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Links to Weekly Instruction Posts

Quick Links to Each Week: 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/19/20

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