Crochet Granny Spike Stitch
The Crochet Granny Spike Stitch is a variation of the granny cluster stitch, but without big holes! Perfect for blankets and cardigans.
Materials
- Scrap yarn
- 6mm hook
- Tapestry needle
Abbreviations (US terms)
- ch = Chain
- dc = Double Crochet
- ch sp = Chain space
- sc = Single crochet
Notes
Used scrap yarn with various blues and white; any color combination is suitable. Change colors every 2 rows for an uneven chevron pattern. Adjust stripe thickness by changing colors less frequently. A stitch swatch; continue for a scarf or other project. Modify chain length, ensuring divisibility by 4, +1 for the turning chain.
Instructions
- This pattern is worked in rows.
- Row 1: Ch x29 and turn your work
- Row 2: Starting in the 5th chain from the hook, make 3dc in the same stitch. Then *ch x1 + skip 3 stitches, then 3dc in the next stitch*. Then repeat what is between the * for the rest of the row. When there are 4 stitches left, ch x1 + skip 3 stitches, and make 2dc in the last stitch. Ch x2 and turn.
- Row 3: In each ch sp across make dc x1 into the ch sp, dc spike stitch x1 (instead of working into the ch sp, work into the top of the middle dc in the cluster below), into the center stitch in the row below, then dc x1 into the ch sp. Finally ch x1. And that is how you do a spike granny stitch cluster. Repeat for the rest of the row.
- To finish the row, make 2dc in the beginning ch sp of the previous row.
- This is where I suggest switching colors. Ch x2 in the new color and turn.
- Row 4: Just keep repeating row 3 until the length of your project is desired.
- Final row: Instead of doing a dc either side of the dc spike stitch, make a sc. So instead of dc, dc spike, dc, ch. It’s sc, dc spike, sc, ch.
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