Rainbow Half Grannies Square Pattern: Baby Groovyghan CAL(2)

In Part 1 of the Baby Groovyghan CAL we made 8 RAINBOWS AND DAISIES SQUARES

The squares were assembled into a strip using the VISIBLE JOIN

Your blanket should be looking something like this:

The second square we will be making is the Rainbow Half Granny Square.  

RAINBOW HALF GRANNY SQUARE:

Foundation:  ch4

Round 1:  into fourth ch from hook 2dc, 2ch, 3dc

Round 2:  3ch turn;   2dc into sp between first two dc;   3dc, 3ch, 3dc into 2ch sp,  3dc into sp between last 2dc

Round 3 and 4:   3ch turn, 2dc into sp between first two dc,  3dc into sp between clusters; 3dc, 3ch, 3dc into 3ch sp (corner);  3dc into sp between clusters;  3dc into sp between last 2dc.

Break off yarn at the end of Round 4.

NOTE:   Row 4 is the "right side" of the granny - you need to remember this when we start joining.

Make 16 half grannies and then proceed as follows:

Put two triangles on top of one another, right sides facing inward, and join along the bottom edge with the VISIBLE JOIN

 Join your half grannies 2 by 2 until you have eight of these little parcels

Fold them open and smooth them flat - do not panic! - at this point they are more "diamond" shaped than square - we will compensate for this in Round 5!

 
Round 5:  Join your white yarn (or whatever colour you are using as your border colour) in any sp between 3dc clusters;  3ch, 2dc;  3dc into sp between every 3dc cluster;   3dc, 3ch, 3dc into corner

Over join work as follows:   into sp between last 2dc crochet 1dc;   2tr through loop of visible join, 3ch, 2tr through loop of visible join;  1dc into sp between first 2dc on second triangle

repeat to complete the square;   ss into top of 3ch to join

Round 6:  2ch, 1hdc into top of each dc;    2hdc, 3ch, 2hdc into each corner (there should be 20hdc on each side of your square)

Arrange your 8 squares in a row (use the 1st row as a visual placement guide) and work them together with the visible join

You should now have two rows of 8 squares each which look something like this:

I am going to neaten up my two rows by working in the ends (lots and lots of ends).    I will post the next part of the CAL by latest Wednesday next week - we will be adding 10 rows of stripes to the Rainbows & Daisies row - then joining to the Rainbow Half Grannies row, and then adding ten stripes to that - quite a lot of work for next week so get those hooks ready!