September Dog
September Dog is the ninth large square pattern in the 2024: A Year of Dogs series. This month’s square is a puppy leaning on a giant bone and my 7-year-old son has declared it is his favorite!
Crochet Colorwork
Like all the dog squares in this series, September Dog can be done using your choice of colorwork technique: interlocking crochet or overlay mosaic crochet.
You’ll receive the fully written pattern and charts for both techniques. The mosaic crochet option uses an adjusted chart that is solid in the solid areas (so you don’t see any of the interlocking mesh dots when you use the mosaic technique).
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Wrong Sides
Interlocking crochet produces an almost-opposite image on the back (the wrong side).
Overlay mosaic crochet produces a striped background with a faint illusion of the design on the front.
These differences occur because of how each stitch is made.
With interlocking crochet, every stitch gets hidden or shown depending on whether you put the next row’s stitch in front or in back. But whatever is shown on the front is hidden on the back! Vertical lines end up being horizontal dashes, so it’s not always a clear image on the wrong side.
There are a few fancy mosaic crochet techniques that involve locking the flaps down or making reversible images, but I just do the basic stitches so I’m left with stripes.
Joining Squares
With interlocking crochet, it’s relatively easy to join the squares. With overlay mosaic crochet you have to deal with the cut ends first.
Head back to this section on the Year of Dogs Landing Page to read more.
Photos
As with all the realistic animal patterns, it’s often best practice to use a really dark color for the Main Color (MC / first color used) because of how it affects the pupils and the shadows in the drawing. BUT! Sometimes it does work out to look just as interesting when the colors are switched.
Overlay mosaic crochet sample of September Dog by Eva.
Interlocking crochet sample of August Dog by Maja Serec with optional border added.
Overlay mosaic crochet sample of September Dog by Linda Bakker.
Thank you to Anonymous Squirrel, CrochetCarob, CynCityCrochet, Eva, Linda Bakker, Maja Serec, and Margaret Maillet for testing 2024: A Year of Dogs.
Interlocking crochet sample of August Dog by an Anonymous Squirrel.
Overlay mosaic crochet sample of September Dog by Margaret Maillat; white used as MC.
Interlocking crochet sample of September Dog by CynCityCrochet.
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Important Details for September Dog
As with all the dog squares, September Dog comes with the fully written pattern and charts for two colorwork techniques: interlocking crochet and overlay mosaic crochet.
Click here to go to my tutorials for these crochet techniques.
Interlocking Crochet
Each dog square has 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 written pattern (view key)
- instructions on reading a chart (view)
- a one-page chart (good for viewing on a screen)
- a four-page chart (better for printing)
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) (dark lines) – 250 yards plus 75 for optional border
- Accent color (AC) (background) – 240 yards
My interlocking crochet sample of September Dog. Black used as MC.
Overlay Mosaic Crochet
The mosaic crochet version of each dog square uses an adjusted chart. This means I’ve removed the interlocking mesh dots and unneccessary border lines. Read more about the differences at https://ashleeslint.com/tutorials/interlocking-and-mosaic-crochet/.
Click here to learn more about the options for dealing with the cut ends at the end of each row when doing overlay mosaic crochet.
Overlay Mosaic Crochet file includes:
- line-by-line written pattern (view key)
- instructions for optional envelope border (view)
- instructions on reading a chart (view)
- 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 20″ / 56cm x 52cm
- 5 mm hook (H-8)
- Worsted weight yarn (590 – 840 yards)
- Main color (dark lines) – 260 yards
- Contrasting color (background) – 330 yards
- Optional envelope border – 250 yards
My overlay mosaic crochet sample of September Dog. Black used as MC.
