2022 VVCAL
Published on June 17, 2022

2022 VVCAL: Gravity 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 Gravity Motif pattern, in US, and UK Terms, Chart, Video, and Step by step photos.

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Gravity Motif

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

The Cosmos: Gravity

Gravity is the force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass. Here are some interesting facts about gravity!

  • Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician and mathematician and physicist who lived from 1642-1727. The legend is that Newton discovered Gravity when he saw a falling apple while thinking about the forces of nature. Whatever really happened, Newton realized that some force must be acting on falling objects like apples because otherwise they would not start moving from rest. Newton also realized that the moon would fly off away from Earth in a straight line tangent to its orbit if some force was not causing it to fall toward the Earth. The moon is only a projectile circling around the Earth under the attraction of Gravity. Newton called this force “gravity” and determined that gravitational forces exist between all objects. Using the idea of Gravity, Newton was able to explain the astronomical observations of Kepler. The work of Galileo, Brahe, Kepler, and Newton proved once and for all that the Earth wasn’t the center of the solar system. The Earth, along with all other planets, orbits around the sun. Two astronomers, J.C. Adams and U.J.J. LeVerrier, later used the concept of Gravity to predict that the planet Neptune would be discovered. They realized that there must be another planet exerting a gravitational force on Uranus because Uranus had odd perturbations in its orbit. (Perturbations are deviations in orbits.) [More]
  • The modern theory of gravity—Einstein’s general theory of relativity—is one of the most successful theories we have. General relativity is Einstein’s understanding of how gravity affects the fabric of space-time. The theory, which Einstein published in 1915, expanded the theory of special relativity that he had published 10 years earlier. Special relativity argued that space and time are inextricably connected, but that theory didn’t acknowledge the existence of gravity. Einstein spent the decade between the two publications determining that particularly massive objects warp the fabric of space-time, a distortion that manifests as gravity. At the same time, we still don’t know everything about gravity, including the exact way it fits in with the other fundamental forces. [More]
  • The gravitational force tugging between two bodies depends on how massive each one is and how far apart the two lie. Even as the center of the Earth is pulling you toward it (keeping you firmly lodged on the ground), your center of mass is pulling back at the Earth. But the more massive body barely feels the tug from you, while with your much smaller mass you find yourself firmly rooted thanks to that same force. Yet Newton’s laws assume that gravity is an innate force of an object that can act over a distance. Albert Einstein, in his theory of special relativity, determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and he showed that the speed of light within a vacuum is the same no matter the speed at which an observer travels. As a result, he found that space and time were interwoven into a single continuum known as space-time. And events that occur at the same time for one observer could occur at different times for another. (And now I need to have a lie down.) [More]
  • Gravity only attracts—there’s no negative version of the force to push things apart. And while gravity is powerful enough to hold galaxies together, it is so weak that you overcome it every day. If you pick up a book, you’re counteracting the force of gravity from all of Earth. For comparison, the electric force between an electron and a proton inside an atom is roughly one quintillion (that’s a one with 30 zeroes after it) times stronger than the gravitational attraction between them. In fact, gravity is so weak, we don’t know exactly how weak it is. [More]

Gravity Motif Pattern

Scroll down past written instruction for chart and video.

Reference

Stitch Guide (US Terms)

Note: Scroll down for UK Terms.

  • 4trcl 4tr cluster: * yoh 2 times, insert hook in st, yoh pull through, (yoh, pull through 2 lps on hook) 2 times, rep from * 3 times, yoh and pull through all 5 lps
  • beg beginning
  • beg 4trcl beg tr, * yoh 2 times, insert hook in same st, yoh pull through, (yoh, pull through 2 lps on hook) 2 times, rep from * 2 times, yoh and pull through all 4 lps
  • beg dc (1sc, ch1) – counts as 1 dc
  • beg tr (1sc, ch2) – counts as 1 tr
  • bobble [yoh, insert hook in st/sp, yoh, pull up lp, yoh, pull yarn through 2 lps] 4 times, yoh, pull yarn through 5 lps
  • 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
  • tr treble crochet
  • yoh yarn over hook

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

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

Rnd 2 1sc in 18 st/sps, ss in first sc, turn. [18 sc]

Rnd 3 1sc in same st, [bobble in next st, 1sc, ch3, 1sc in next st] 6 times omt final sc, ss in first sc, turn. [6 bobble, 12 sc, 6 sp]

Rnd 4 [3sc in ch-sp, 3sc] 6 times, ss in first sc. [36 sc]

Rnd 5 Ss in next 2 sts, beg 4trcl in next st, [(ch2, 4trcl) 2 times, ch4, sk3, 4trcl] 6 times omt final 4trcl, ss in first 4trcl. [18 4trcl, 18 sp]

Rnd 6 [3sc in next ch-sp, 1sc in next 4trcl, 3sc in next ch-sp, 5sc in next ch-sp] 6 times, ss in first sc. [72 sc]

Rnd 7 [8sc, 3sc in next st, 3sc] 6 times, ss in first sc, cut yarn and weave ends. [84 sc]

Stitch Guide (UK Terms)

  • 4dtrcl 4dtr cluster: * yoh 2 times, insert hook in st, yoh pull through, (yoh, pull through 2 lps on hook) 2 times, rep from * 3 times, yoh and pull through all 5 lps
  • beg beginning
  • beg 4dtrcl beg dtr, * yoh 2 times, insert hook in same st, yoh pull through, (yoh, pull through 2 lps on hook) 2 times, rep from * 2 times, yoh and pull through all 4 lps
  • beg tr (1dc, ch1) – counts as 1 tr
  • beg dtr (1dc, ch2) – counts as 1 dtr
  • bobble [yoh, insert hook in st/sp, yoh, pull up lp, yoh, pull yarn through 2 lps] 4 times, yoh, pull yarn through 5 lps
  • 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
  • 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, [1tr, ch1, 1tr] 5 times, 1tr, ch1, ss in beg tr. [12 tr, 6 sp]

Rnd 2 1dc in 18 st/sps, ss in first dc, turn. [18 dc]

Rnd 3 1dc in same st, [bobble in next st, 1dc, ch3, 1dc in next st] 6 times omt final dc, ss in first dc, turn. [6 bobble, 12 dc, 6 sp]

Rnd 4 [3dc in ch-sp, 3dc] 6 times, ss in first dc. [36 dc]

Rnd 5 Ss in next 2 sts, beg 4dtrcl in next st, [(ch2, 4dtrcl) 2 times, ch4, sk3, 4dtrcl] 6 times omt final 4dtrcl, ss in first 4dtrcl. [18 4dtrcl, 18 sp]

Rnd 6 [3dc in next ch-sp, 1dc in next 4dtrcl, 3dc in next ch-sp, 5dc in next ch-sp] 6 times, ss in first dc. [72 dc]

Rnd 7 [8dc, 3dc in next st, 3dc] 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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