April Knot
This month’s Celtic knot design is said to symbolize luck.
Interlocking & Mosaic
The 2023: A Year of Celtic Knot series can be made using interlocking crochet or overlay mosaic crochet. Both of these colorwork techniques use one color of yarn per row.
Bottom-Up or Center-Out
The interlocking crochet option is made from the bottom-up and the original overlay mosaic crochet option was done from the center-out.
As of the end of November 2023, there’s also a third option: overlay mosaic crochet from the bottom-up!
April Knot – using the original interlocking crochet and center-out overlay mosaic crochet options. This photo shows the right side and wrong side of each technique.
Good luck!
Since this month’s knot is supposed to represent luck I thought it might help you get lucky with my 3rd Year Designaversary Celebration and Giveaways! I’ll be making the big draw on May 1, 2023 but I’ll also have a few random giveaways throughout the month along with some super deals!
April Knot
April is the 4th month in our year and this is our 4th square in this Celtic knot series. I really love seeing all your work! Keep posting on Instagram and Facebook!
If you haven’t purchased the eBook yet, you can use January Knot (Ravelry only) as a trial to see if you like my style.
January Trial
Throughout 2023, if you purchase “January Knot” on Ravelry and then decide to upgrade to the full eBook, “2023: A Year of Celtic Knots“, it will be automatically discounted by the cost of the individual square. This way you don’t have to pay for January twice!
Unfortunately, Etsy doesn’t have the same promo capabilities. But you can purchase the eBook there if you prefer that platform.
The eBook listing (on Ravelry or Etsy) saves you 40% compared to buying each square individually. Each month it will be updated to include the next square at no additional cost, you only pay once.
I’ve also posted this one square on Ribblr. I am still deciding how much I want to use Ribblr, so I haven’t yet decided if I will make more patterns available there or not.
Interlocking crochet sample of April Knot by Maja Serec. Light blue used as the Main Color (MC).
Tunisian Mosaic Crochet
A few weeks ago I unveiled the tunisian mosaic crochet option and then I was asked if I’ll be making a bottom-up mosaic version of the squares since the main reason for doing it from the center-out is so we don’t have to worry about cut ends which is also what the tunisian mosaic crochet technique solves.
I have added this to my to-do list. But I can’t guarantee when I will have those ready for you.
UPDATE: there is now a bottom-up overlay mosaic crochet file for each of the Celtic knot squares!
Loops
Do you think the inner circle is another rope or a metal ring? I kind of imagine it is a never-ending rope looped around a metal ring.
And I like the corner detail in this square when it’s joined to more squares with the corner detail!
CrochetCarob crocheted this beautiful navy and gold center-out overlay mosaic crochet sample of April Knot and I edited it to look like a blanket made up of lots of April Knot squares! What do you think?
Important Details
As always, my designs come with the fully written pattern and charts for two techniques: interlocking crochet and overlay mosaic crochet. The mosaic versions of these Celtic knot squares have solid stitches (no interlocking mesh dots).
Originally, the mosaic crochet option was done from the center-out so there would be no cut ends to worry about. But after many requests I added a bottom-up overlay mosaic crochet version of each Celtic knot square as well.
You can use an envelope border to hide the cut ends or you can use Tunisian mosaic crochet and you won’t have cut ends at all! Another idea is to crochet three squares all at once (make your foundation row as wide as three squares, then do row 1 of square a, b, c without cutting between them).
See my tutorials if you’re new to any of these techniques!
Interlocking Crochet
The interlocking crochet version is done from the bottom-up.
All of the Celtic Knots squares are on a chart size of 81 x 81. This means they begin with 40 windows in the foundation row and will finish to about 20″ square.
Interlocking crochet / LFM crochet file includes:
– line-by-line instructions- instructions on reading a chart
– a one-page chart
Interlocking Crochet Details
- Chart is 81 x 81
- Gauge: 8 (dc, ch) x 8 rows = 4”
- 20″ x 20″ / 51cm x 51cm
- 4.5 mm hook (US7)
- Worsted weight yarn (490 – 565 yards total)
- Main color (MC) (knot) – 250 yards plus 75 for optional border
- Accent color (AC) (background) – 240 yards
Pleva crocheted April Knot using the interlocking crochet technique.
Center-Out Overlay Mosaic Crochet
The original overlay mosaic crochet version is done from the center-out so we don’t have to worry about any cut ends when we join our squares!
The mosaic crochet charts have been adjusted from their interlocking crochet counterparts. They are solid (there are no interlocking mesh dots on it) and they do not have the unnecessary border lines.
The full chart is 77 x 77 and will finish to about 19″ square. Take note, you’ll receive the top 1/4 of the x-marked chart that gets repeated for all 4 sides of the square.
Center-Out Overlay Mosaic Crochet file includes:
– line-by-line instructions
– instructions on reading a chart
– a one-page chart marked with X’s for mosaic crochet
Center-Out Mosaic Crochet Details
- Chart is 77 x 77
- Gauge: 16 sc blo stitches x 16 rows = 4”
- 19″ / 48cm
- 5 mm hook (H-8)
- Worsted weight yarn (600 yards)
- Main color (knot) – 250 yards
- Contrasting color (background) – 350 yards
MadeByMrsJones crocheted this pretty center-out overlay mosaic crochet sample of April Knot.
Bottom-Up Overlay Mosaic Crochet
The additional bottom-up overlay mosaic crochet version can be done using Tunisian mosaic crochet if you’re trying to avoid an envelope border. Or you can weave in the cut ends. Another option is to crochet the squares together as you make them – create your foundation row as wide as three squares, for example, and crochet row 1 of all three squares, one after another, without cutting between them.
The bottom-up charts use the same solid image as the center-out mosaic crochet charts.
Gauge when worked from the bottom-up will be slightly different than when you work from the center-out.
You’ll receive both a single-page chart and a multi-page chart. Both charts have x’s marked on them for the dropped double crochets.
Bottom-Up Overlay Mosaic Crochet file includes:
– line-by-line instructions
– instructions on reading a chart
– a one-page chart marked with X’s (good for viewing on a screen)
– a four-page chart marked with X’s (better for printing)
Bottom-Up Mosaic Crochet Details
- Chart is 77 x 77
- Gauge: 14 sc blo stitches x 15 rows = 4”
- 22″ x 21″ / 56cm x 52cm
- 5 mm hook (H-8)
- Worsted weight yarn (600 – 850 yards)
- Main color (knot) – 250 yards
- Contrasting color (background) – 350 yards
- Optional envelope border – 250 yards
