The Bouquet of Flowers Afghan CAL is here! Last year lots of you loved the Friendship blanket so much. This year the designers were asking me to organise another one! So I did. Why call it the Bouquet of Flowers Afghan? It’s been a long …
Raised Diagonal Friendship Square Pattern Today’s Friendship Square is the Raised Diagonal Friendship Square and was designed by me (Sara). I wanted something that had a little flair but would still be pretty easy to work up. One trick I can tell you about this …
We are so excited to be kicking off the Friendship Blanket CAL today with the Friendship Square!
We have teamed up with no less than 29 of our designer friends to bring you this CAL. Each designer has designed at least 1 square that should be 9″ square and easily assembled to make this blanket. Of course, you can use the squares for whatever you desire. You can find out more about how this CAL works here.
The theme for the blanket is texture, and I hope you agree that this square certainly ticks that box!
Skill level – beginner
It is a simple square so is suitable for a beginner as long as you can sc. hdc and dc. If you are new to front and back posts we have a video tutorial to show you how to do this. By the time you have done a row you will be a pro at the post stitches!
Use it as a washcloth?
So you don’t want to make the blanket? That’s OK! Use this square as a washcloth or a dishcloth! There are other ideas of things that you can make with these squares which will be posted nearer the end of the CAL but I will link it here.
Don’t forget you can sign up for our Events and CALs emails and never miss a square or one of our events! Just click the button below
If you are making this as part of the CAL please use the code from our roundup post and if you have the code you can download it using the buttons below!
Pattern links
You can get a pdf version of this pattern in all of our shops:
I find this has a more aesthetically pleasing finish than the chain starts to projects, but it is not necessary to start this project!
FPDC –
YO and insert hook between the posts of the previous st and the one you want to work and bring the hook back to the front (between the posts of the stitch you want to work and the next st).The hook should not be positioned horizontally behind the dc that you are working. YO and draw the yarn around the post of the stitch. You now have 3 loops on your hook, YO and draw the yarn through two loops on the hook, yo and draw yarn through the last two loops. Stitch is complete.
YO and insert your hook from the back to the front between the posts of the first and the second dc on the row below, and then from the front to the back again between the posts of the second and the third stitches, The hook should now be positioned horizontally in front of the dc that you are working. YO and draw the yarn around the post of the stitch. You now have 3 loops on the hook, YO and draw through 2 loops on the hook, yo and draw through 2 loops on the hook. Stitch completed.