Pattern
| PAMPELONNE
PAMPELONNE
Pampelonne is a beach a few miles outside of
St Tropez; the colours and shapes in this blanket
By Amanda Perkins
are evocative of that beach.
About this
CIRCLES BASE Arrange your 6 colours in order, the
Pattern…
STARTER CIRCLE darkest to the lightest – you will crochet
Using the base colour: each block of 6 rows in this order.
Make 4 chain and join to form
DIFFICULTY foundation ring using a sl st into first st SIDE 1
Intermediate of chain, The top row is the 20 circle edge.
3 ch (counts as one tr), 4 tr, 1 chain, *Start at the side ch space of the top row.
FINISHED MASUREMENTS
*5 tr, 1 ch* repeat from * to * 2 times into Using colour 1, crochet 2 ch (counts as
IN CM (INCHES)
the foundation ring. 1 htr)
Blocked – 101.6x96.5cm
Sl st into the 3 ch Into the next and subsequent stitches of
(40x38 inches)
Break yarn. the top edge, crochet 1 htr, including the
YARN
joining sl st in between 2 circles.*
The Natural Dye Studio Sock Yarns
SECOND AND SUBSEQUENT CIRCLES
400gms for base circles
Follow the instructions for the starter Row 2: Repeat from * to * using colour 2.
circle until you reach the first 1 ch space. Continue down the blanket using the
40gms x 6 wave colours
(260gms in total)
Sl st into a 1 ch space of the starter next colour in order for each row.
circle, continue as for the starter circle.
NEEDLE/HOOK SIZE IN MM When you reach row 7, start again with
3.5mm hook For all the circles, except the outside colour 1.
edge, you will be joining all the 1 ch Repeat above until you have edged
PATTERN NOTES
spaces of each circle, follow the * to each row of circles.
The blanket is constructed in
* instructions above for each pair of You will finish with colour 3.
two stages.
circles joined.
The fi rst stage is a base of circles
SIDE 2
joined together, which determine the
Continue joining circles until you have a Turn the blanket over and using colour
fi nished size.
base of 22x20 circles. 4, start with the top row of circles.
The second stage is crocheting onto
Sew in all the ends. Join the yarn to the first 2 ch of side
the base circles to form the ripples.
1 with a sl st, 1 htr in the starter ch space.
You can make the blanket larger or Continue as for side 1, but do not

YARN ALTERNATIVES
small by increasing or decreasing the include the slip stitch joining 2 circles.
number of circles of the base.
Save • Opal, Handpaints
When you have edged all the circles,
Spend • Easy Knits, Bamboo Merino
Spoil yourself • Skein Queen, Plushness
RIPPLES sew in the ends.
68 | INSIDE Crochet
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