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Color Block Pillow Cover

November 17, 2016 By: Cre8tion Crochet

Color Block Pillow Cover

This Color Block Pillow Cover is perfect for whipping up a pillow cover to go with your décor. With using the color block technique you can combine two colors to create a great design yet keeping it simple.

Crocheting your very own pillow cover can be a freeing exercise for the interior decorator in you. You can use color blocking to play with different colors that either are contrasting or complimenting.

YARN

  • Red Heart Super Saver, #4, worsted weight, 364 yds/skein
    • Lavender (CA)
    • Pale Plum (CB)

MATERIALS

  • 16″ Pillow form
  • I/5.5mm hook
  • 12” zipper
  • Needle and thread for sewing zipper to pillow
  • Stitch markers
  • Needle for weaving in ends

DIFFICULTY
Easy to Intermediate – The crocheting is simple but you should know how to sew a zipper onto a crocheted piece

FINISHED SIZE
16 ½” x 17”

GAUGE
12 dc sts = 4”; 8 dc rows = 4”

STITCH GUIDE
Ch – chain; st(s) – stitch(es); ea – each; RS – right side; sc – single crochet; dc – double crochet; sl st – slip stitch; Fdc – foundation double crochet; CA – color A; CB – color B

SPECIAL STITCHES
Foundation double crochet (Fdc) – ch2, yo, insert hook into 2nd ch from hook, pull yarn through, (3 loops on hook), yo, pull through 1 loop (you will have 3 loops on hook), yo, pull through 2 loops (2 remaining loops on hook), yo, and pull through the remaining 2 loops on hook. You have created your first Fdc. Tutorial here from Cre8tion Crochet.

NOTES

  • Ch1 and ch2 do not count as stitches.
  • When switching from CA to CB, or CB to CA, change colors before completing the last stitch in a row.
  • Your Fdc row is your right side. Use a stitch marker to help you recognize the RS.
  • Instructions on border and attaching sides included in pattern instructions.

Click HERE to continue on to this pattern on the Same DiNamics Crochet blog.

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