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Dream A Dream

Follow the FREE pattern on YouTube or purchase a PDF

You can get the fully written pattern and charts in PDF form for both techniques from my Ravelry store or Etsy shop.

Videos!

You don’t NEED to buy the pattern in order to follow along with the videos.

You can view the Keys for the Interlocking Crochet method or the Overlay Mosaic Crochet method here and each row is written on the screen on the video; the charts are only available in the paid PDF.

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"Dream a Dream" on Ravelry
"Dream A Dream" on Etsy

The charts are only available in the PDFs.

The written pattern can be found on-screen when following the YouTube videos.

The KEY can be found here on my website.

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Center-Out Crochet

Have you had a chance to bump up your crochet skills yet? My tutorial on crocheting from the Center-Out has been live for 2 weeks now. I have seen a few of your Tutorial Squares and I am eager to see what everyone plans to do with a square so small. I think I will have to design more of that size!

The tutorial and this pattern (and all my other patterns) come with written line-by-line instructions and charts for two techniques.

Overlay Mosaic Crochet seems to be the most popular. Interlocking Crochet is fun too (and sometimes goes by other names, such as Locked Filet Mesh / LFM)!

Center-Out Tutorial Square

Dream A Dream

My new pattern, Dream a Dream, is a little bit larger than the tutorial square. But it is not an overwhelming size. Plus, to make it more accessible I have created a full video walk-thru for each technique!

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Center-out Interlocking Crochet Pattern Key

AC = accent color (pink on chart / even-numbered rounds)

MC = main color (green on chart / odd-numbered rounds)

Back = the wrong side of your work

Front = the right side of your work (you never turn your work, so the right side is always facing you)

AC/MC to Back indicates you need to place the AC/MCyarn towards the BACK of your project

AC/MC to Front indicates you need to bring the AC/MC yarn towards the FRONT of your project

BLO = use the back loop only

ch = chain: pull a loop of yarn through the loop on your hook

dc = double crochet: yarn over, insert hook, yarn over, pull up loop, *yarn over, pull through two loops* twice

hdc = half double crochet: yarn over, insert hook, yarn over, pull up loop, yarn over, pull through all three loops

sk = skip a stitch

SS = slip stitch: insert hook, pull a loop through everything on your hook

I used purple as the MC in this square. White is used as the AC.

MR = magic ring: place yarn across the front of your fingers with the tail hanging down, wrap yarn over and behind your fingers, cross yarn at the top of your hand towards your wrist, insert hook under first loop on the back of your hand and grab the second loop, pull the loop up and chain to keep it in place. View my video tutorial or photo tutorial online: AshleesLint.com/magicring. 

Key (con’t): Special Stitches

Ch3 in Back/Front counts as your first dc and chain

C = Corner: chain 2 (when added to previous stitch that makes 3 chains between the double crochets in each corner)

B = double crochet (dc) behind the previous row, and chain 1

F = double crochet (dc) in front of the previous row, and chain 1

Join = SS to finish the round. This stitch goes into the 2nd chain of the first ch3 of the round, or it can be made into the first window space

Interlocking Crochet Technique

  • You are creating two layers of mesh that happen to be worked around each other.
  • Each color of yarn gets stitched into itself only.
  • Each double crochet goes into the previous row’s double crochet.
  • There is a chain space between each double crochet that doesn’t get worked into.
  • You alternate using each color of yarn and thus can do the double crochet in front or behind the opposite color’s chain space (never yarn over in a way that it encloses that chain space on both sides).
  • Do not cut your yarn at the end of each round, just use a stitch marker to keep the live loop waiting.

Detailed tutorial on this technique in PDF and YouTube video format can be found at https://ashleeslint.com/interlocking-crochet-tutorial-center-out/.

Two squares; one used worsted weight yarn, the other used DK.

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Important Interlocking Crochet Details

Interlocking Crochet Details

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Interlocking Dream a Dream Video

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Center-out Mosaic Crochet Pattern Key

MC = Main Color: blue in chart

CC = Contrasting Color: white in chart

ch = chain: pull a loop through

SC = single crochet: insert hook, pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through both loops on hook

DC = double crochet: yarn over, insert hook, pull up a loop, *yarn over, pull through two loops* twice

I used blue as the MC in this square. White is used as the CC.

MR = magic ring: place yarn across the front of your fingers with the tail hanging down, wrap yarn over and behind your fingers, cross yarn at the top of your hand towards your wrist, insert hook under first loop on the back of your hand and grab the second loop, pull the loop up and chain to keep it in place. View my video tutorial or photo tutorial online: AshleesLint.com/magicring. 

Key (con’t): Special Stitches

Take note of the lower case versus upper case

sc = SC into Back Loop only

dc = dropped double crochet: DC into Front Loop of stitch in the round below, skip the sc stitch that gets hidden behind this dropped stitch

scC = single crochet corner: SC into Back Loop Only of previous round’s corner chain, chain 1, SC into the same Back Loop again

dcC = double crochet corner: do a dropped DC into front loop of previous round’s corner chain, chain 1, do another dropped DC into same front loop again. The next stitch, if it is a dc, will use this same front loop as well.

Remember to skip the same number of stitch(es) behind your dc(s) before doing your next sc.

Mosaic Crochet Technique

  • The front of your work is always facing you (this is the right side, the side showing the design)
  • Yarn colors can be anything you like
    • They need to contrast well (try a black and white photo to see if they are too similar)
    • They need to be the same weight (size/thickness)
  • Do not cut your yarn at the end of each round, carry it up through the corner stitch
  • Join at the end of each round; use an invisible join into the first stitch of the round
  • After joining, pick up a loop of the other color and make a really tight chain to lock it all in, then continue with your corner stitches in the chain of the previous round’s corner stitches
  • Even-numbered rounds use MC; odd-numbered rounds use CC. We start with round 1.

A stack of squares.

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Important Mosaic Crochet Details

Overlay Mosaic Crochet Details

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Mosaic Dream a Dream Video

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