October Dog
October Dog, a corgi, is our tenth pattern in the 2024: A Year of Dogs series. Each month’s design can be made using interlocking crochet or overlay mosaic crochet.
Crochet Colorwork
October Dog, like all the large squares in the Year of… series, 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).
Monthly Series
There will be twelve dog squares in 2024: A Year of Dogs.
The eBook will save you 40% versus buying each square individually. The eBook will be updated monthly with a new dog square.
January Trial
If you’re not ready to commit to the full eBook of all 12 dog squares, why not just try January Dog first?
If you later decide you DO want the eBook, the cost of January Dog will be deducted from your purchase of the eBook!
Available on Ravelry only, no code needed, cannot be combined with other offers.
Wrong Side of October Dog
Each technique creates the dog image on the front but the back sides are where you can really see a difference.
Interlocking crochet creates an inversed image that is less defined (smooth black lines become spiky blue lines, for example).
Overlay mosaic crochet is just stripes on the wrong side. But the stripes create an illusion of what’s on the front because of how each stitch lays (either completely flat, or with a big of a gap).
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 about the joining options.
Photos
A big thank you to my testers Anonymous Squirrel, CynCityCrochet, Eva, Linda Bakker, Maja Serec, and Margaret Maillet for testing this month’s dog square.
Interlocking crochet sample of October Dog by CynCityCrochet.
Overlay mosaic crochet sample of October Dog by Eva.
Interlocking crochet sample of October Dog by Maja Serec with optional single crochet border added.
Overlay mosaic crochet sample of October Dog by Linda Bakker.
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Important Details for October Dog
Each design 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 October 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 (600 – 850 yards)
- Main color (dark lines) – 230 yards
- Contrasting color (background) – 370 yards
- Optional envelope border – 250 yards
My overlay mosaic crochet sample of October Dog. Black used as MC.
