https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/catherine-wheel-stitch • Posted by Search Press
Catherine Wheel is a really interesting stitch and certainly one that benefits from being worked in more than one colour. It is similar in construction to Starburst stitch, but this time the circles are broken up by rows and columns of double crochet between the fans and clusters. This difference becomes more apparent when the stitch is worked in two colours and helps to create the illusion of the circles spinning. As with Petal stitch, it will become necessary to break colours when they change and so weaving these in as you go will save lots of finishing at the end of your project. There is no reason why you should not use more than two colours as a repeating or random sequence. However, the original image will tend to be lost as the eye tries to read the colour pattern, rather than the stitch pattern. Catherine wheel uses the cluster technique. This involves working [yarn round hook, insert hook into designated stitch, yarn round hook, draw loop through, yarn round hook, draw through two loops] over the directed number of stitches and is then completed by one final yarn round hook and drawing through all the loops on the hook.
Catherine Wheel is a really interesting stitch and certainly one that benefits from being worked in more than one colour. It is similar in construction to Starburst stitch, but this time the circles are broken up by rows and columns of double crochet between the fans and clusters. This difference becomes more apparent when the stitch is worked in two colours and helps to create the illusion of the circles spinning. As with Petal stitch, it will become necessary to break colours when they change and so weaving these in as you go will save lots of finishing at the end of your project. There is no reason why you should not use more than two colours as a repeating or random sequence. However, the original image will tend to be lost as the eye tries to read the colour pattern, rather than the stitch pattern. Catherine wheel uses the cluster technique. This involves working [yarn round hook, insert hook into designated stitch, yarn round hook, draw loop through, yarn round hook, draw through two loops] over the directed number of stitches and is then completed by one final yarn round hook and drawing through all the loops on the hook.
Multiple 10 sts + 6, plus 1 for the foundation chain. (WS) 1dc in 2nd ch from hook, 1dc in next ch, *miss 3ch, 7tr in next ch, miss 3ch, 1dc in each of next 3ch; rep from * to last 4ch, miss 3ch, 4tr in last ch, turn.
Ch1, 1dc in each of first 2tr, *ch3, work 1Cl over next 7 sts, ch3, 1dc in each of next 3 sts; rep from * to last 4 sts, ch3, 1Cl over last 4 sts, turn.
Ch3 (counts as 1tr), 3tr in first st, *miss 3ch, 1dc in each of next 3dc, miss 3ch, 7tr in loop that closed next Cl; rep from * and end by missing 3ch and working 1dc in each of last 2dc, turn.
Ch3 (counts as 1tr), miss first st, 1Cl over next 3 sts, *ch3, 1dc in each of next 3 sts, ch3, 1Cl over next 7 sts; rep from * to end, ch3, 1dc in last st, 1dc in tch, turn.
Ch1, 1dc in each of next 2dc, *miss 3ch, 7tr in loop that closed next Cl, miss 3ch, 1dc in each of next 3dc; rep from * to end, miss 3ch, 4tr in tch, turn.
Repeat Steps 2–5.
Cl (cluster): work [yrh, insert hook, yrh, draw loop through, yrh, draw through 2 loops] over the designated number of sts, yrh, draw through all loops on hook.