We’re at the 11th pat­tern for the 12 Days of Wood­land Crea­tures (and Their Favourite Things) project! :D

But first, apolo­gies for the recent delays of post­ing these pat­terns! My com­put­er had died a week ago, so it’s been chal­leng­ing to re-size and upload pho­tos for the blog. As Mike is help­ing me set up a replace­ment com­put­er hope­ful­ly there won’t be as long of a wait for the last pat­tern of the series!

As men­tioned in my first post for this project, I’m mak­ing all these crea­tures and their favourite things for a baby mobile. And I heard through the Rav­el­ry CAL group that there are oth­ers who are inter­est­ed in mak­ing mobiles too! That’s awesome!

For the foliage, I chose oak for strength, gink­go for peace and wis­dom, and vine for the resilience and tenac­i­ty to over­come the chal­lenges that comes his way. All my best wish­es for the young one.

SO! My plan for this gar­land is to attach it around the wood­en hoop that the oth­er crea­tures and things will dan­gle from. (I might use an embroi­der hoop if I can’t find a plain wood­en hoop or ring, I envi­sion it to be about 6–7″ in diameter.)

But it can also be a reg­u­lar gar­land for dec­o­rat­ing the walls. And it can have oth­er crea­tures added to it, like this adorable bat by Lucy Raven­scar that I just spot­ted today :D And again I spaced the leaves rather close­ly in prepa­ra­tion for the mobile, but you can adjust the lengths in between leaves in any way you like.

The con­struc­tion involves cro­chet­ing the oak and gink­go leaves sep­a­rate­ly, and then mak­ing a chain of vine and small­er leaves, and attach­ing the oak and gink­go leaves as you cro­chet the vine. You can attach oth­er crea­tures to it in the same way.

I used:

Worsted weight yarn in orange, yel­low, dark green, bright green, and blue-green (but I’m sure oth­er colour com­bi­na­tions will look fab­u­lous too!)

3.5 mm hook

Pat­tern:

Oak (make as many as you’d like)

The oak leaf is cre­at­ed by first cro­chet­ing half the leaf down the mid­dle chain, then mak­ing the stem, then cro­chet­ing the oth­er half of the leaf, going up the same mid­dle chain.

First half: ch 12, sc in 5th ch from hook, ch 2, dc in next ch, ch 2, sc in next ch, ch 3, 2‑tr-tog over next 2 ch, ch 3, sc in next ch, ch 2, dc-sc-tog* over next 2 ch, ch 1, sl st in last ch, do not fas­ten off.

*dc-sc-tog: yo, insert hook in next ch, draw up a loop, yo and pull through 2 loops on hook, insert hook in next ch, draw up a loop, yo and pull through all loops on hook.

Stem: ch 4, sl st in 2nd ch from hook, sl st in next 2 ch, do not fas­ten off.

*you can make the stem longer or short­er by mak­ing more or few­er ch.

Sec­ond half: cro­chet­ing in the remain­ing loop of the mid­dle chain, sl st in first ch of mid­dle chain, ch 1, sc-dc-tog* over next 2 ch, ch 2, sc in next ch, ch 3, 2‑tr-tog over next 2 ch, ch 3, sc in next ch, ch 2, dc in next ch, ch 2, sl st in next ch, fas­ten off, weave in ends.

*sc-dc-tog: insert hook in next ch, draw up a loop, yo, insert hook in next ch, draw up a loop, yo and pull through 2 loops on hook, yo and pull through all remain­ing loops on hook.

Gink­go (make as many as you’d like)

For the gink­go leaf we are cro­chet­ing in the front loop only.

ch 9.

Row 1: sc in sec­ond ch from hook, sc in next 3 ch, turn.

Row 2: sl st in first sc, sl st in next 2 sc, sc in last sc, ch 1, turn.

Row 3: sc in first sc, sl st in next 3 st, sl st in next ch in the begin­ning chain, turn.

Row 4: sl st in first st, sl st in each st across until last st, sc in last sc, ch 1, turn.

Row 5: sc in first sc, sl st in each st across, sl st in next ch in the begin­ning chain, turn.

Row 6: sl st in first st, sl st in next 3 st, ch 3, turn.

Row 7: sc in sec­ond ch from hook, sl st in next ch, sl st in each st across, sl st in next ch in the begin­ning chain, turn.

Row 8–10: repeat rows 4–5, then row 4 once more.

Row 11: sc in first sc, sl st in next 4 st, turn.

Row 12: skip first st, sl st in next st, sl st in next 2 st, sc in last st, ch 1, turn.

Row 13: sc in first sc, sl st in next 3 st, sl st in skipped st in the row below, sl st in remain­ing unworked st in 2 rows below, sl st in the first ch of the begin­ning ch (the ch 9 in the very begin­ning), don’t fas­ten off.

Stem: ch 7, sl st in sec­ond ch from hoo, sl st in each ch across, sl st in the first ch of the begin­ning ch (the ch 9 in the very begin­ning). Fas­ten off, weave in ends.

Vine

The vine is made of chains, and you can cro­chet the leaves as fre­quent­ly as you like between chains.

Small leaf: ch 4, dc in 3rd ch from hook, ch 1, sl st in top of dc just made, ch 3, sl st in same ch where dc was made. Con­tin­ue ch for vine.

When you want to attach an oak or gink­go leaf, make sl st across the back of the leaf. Here’s a back view of the gar­land to show how the leaves are attached.

It might even make a nice leaf crown :D (silli­ness is absolute­ly necessary)

 

Have a love­ly week­end, everyone!