Relief and Pearled Patterns Afghan
You’ll need:
1360g of yarn (82% acryl, 10% wool, 8% viscose; 97m/170g);
Circle knitting needles 8 (75 cm long).
Size: 117 x 137 cm.
Used Patterns
Double broaching: slip 1 knit st, knit2tog, throw the slipped st on the knit st;
Decrease with left decline: slip2 sts to the right-hand needle, leave unfinished. Insert the left-hand needle in 2 slipped sts from left to right, making them as 1 st through the upper lobes;
Pearled pattern:
1st row: 1 knit st, 1 purl;
2nd row: purls above knit sts, knit sts above purls.
Relief pattern:
1st row: 1 knit st, * 1 yarn over, decease with left decline, 7 knit sts, knit2tog, 1 yarn over, 1 knit st*; repeat from * to * on all the sts;
2nd and all wrong-side rows: purls;
3rd row: 1 knit st, * 1 yarn over, decease with left decline, 5 knit sts, knit2tog, 1 yarn over, 1 knit st*; repeat from * to * on all the sts;
5th row: 1 knit st, * (1 yarn over, decease with left decline) x twice, 3 knit sts,( knit2tog) x twice, 1 knit st*; repeat from * to * on all the sts;
7th row: 1 knit st, *1 knit st, (1 yarn over, decease with left decline) x twice, 1 knit st,( knit2tog, 1 yarn over) x twice, 2 knit sts*; repeat from * to * on all the sts;
9th row: 1 knit st, * (1 yarn over, decrease with left decline) x twice, double broaching, 1 yarn over, (knit2tog, 1 yarn over) twice, 1 knit st*; repeat from * to * on all the sts;
11th row: 1 knit st, * 3 knit sts, knit2tog, 1 yarn over, 1 knit st, 1 yarn over, decrease with left decline, 4 knit sts*; repeat from * to * on all the sts;
13h row: 1 knit st, * knit2tog, 1 yarn over, 3 knit sts, 1 yarn over, decrease with left decline, 3 knit sts*; repeat from * to * on all the sts;
15th row: 1 knit st, * 1 knit st, (knit2tog, 1 yarn over) x twice, 1 knit st, (1 yarn over, decrease with left decline) x twice, 1 knit st*; repeat from * to * on all the sts;
17th row: 1 knit st, *(knit2tog, 1 yarn over) x twice, 3 knit sts, (1 yarn over, decrease with left decline) x twice, 1 knit st*; repeat from * to * on all the sts;
19th row: knit2tog, 1 yarn over, *(knit2tog, 1 yarn over) x twice, 1 knit st, (1 yarn over, decrease with left decline) x twice, 1 yarn over, double broaching, 1 yarn over*; repeat from * to * on all the sts;
20th row: purl.
Vertical pattern repeat – 1st-20th rows.
Stitches control: 8 sts x 13 rows = 10 x 10 cm.
Instructions
Cast on 95 sts and make 6 rows with pearled pattern. Then, make 5 sts of pearled pattern from the sides, make central part with the relief pattern. Repeat the relief pattern 8 times. Finish work with 6 rows of pearled pattern. Bind off the sts.