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Square Coaster

© Gillian Buchanan 2001

This motif inspired the Tatted Alphabet elsewhere in the site.

MATERIALS

• Shuttle and Ball Thread
  
• No. 40 Crochet Cotton

SIZE

5 cm across.

CENTRE

1. Wind shuttle without cutting off from ball thread.
   

2. R 4 DS, 3 P sep by 4 DS, 4 DS, cl. R, RW.
   
3. C 4 DS, P, 4 DS, RW.
   
4. R 4 DS, J to adjacent P of previous R, 4 DS, 2 P sep by 4 DS, 4 DS, cl. R, DNRW.
   
5. R 4 DS, J to adjacent P of previous R, 4 DS, 2 P sep by 4 DS, 4 DS, cl. R, DNRW.
   
6. R 4 DS, J to adjacent P of previous R, 4 DS, 2 P sep by 4 DS, 4 DS, cl. R, RW.
   
7. C 4 DS, P, 4 DS, RW.
   
8. R 4 DS, J to adjacent P of previous R, 4 DS, 2 P sep by 4 DS, 4 DS, cl. R, RW.

Repeat from No. 3 three times more, but join the last P of the last R to the first P of the 1st R, and make the final C as before. Join to the base of the 1st R and finish ends.

OUTER ROW

1. Wind shuttle without cutting off from ball thread.
   
2. R 4 DS, P, 4 DS, J to free P of any R of the centre section, preferably one in the middle of the row so that you don't have to finish off in the middle of the long corner C, 4 DS, P, 4 DS, cl. R, RW.
   
3. C 4 DS, P, 4 DS, RW.
   
4. R 4 DS, J to adjacent P of previous R, 4 DS, J to adjacent free P of R on centre, 4 DS, P, 4 DS, cl. R, RW.
   Repeat 3 and 4 to the end of the row.
   
5. C 4 DS, 3 P sep by 4 DS, 4 DS, RW.
   
6. R 4 DS, J to last P of previous R, 4 DS, J to adjacent P on same R of the centre as previous R, 4 DS, P, 4 DS, cl. R, RW.

Repeat all round the outer row of the motif, finishing as shown in the illustration.