Cape Breton Tartan Blanket

Cape Breton Tartan

 Materials 4.5 mm crochet hook
700 g of green
400 g of light gray
200 g of black
200 g of yellow
all worsted weight.   I used Redheart Ss

 Chain 174 stitches. Double crochet in 4th chain from hook , chain 1 and skip next stitch now double crochet in next stitch repeat from chain 1 across you should have 86 spaces .

 Work base of blanket using the following colours

 12 rows green
  6 grey
  4 yellow
   2 black
    6 grey
4 black
2 grey
2 green
3 grey

Repeat twice for afghan ending with 12 rows of green

Weave starting from the right hand side.  Weave over under over, first row, then under over under and repeat across following above colour sequence

Add a nice fringe to bottom of each row.  I used five strands 10 inches long all the way across both ends.

This is not my pattern, it is a passed down pattern developed to replicate in colour only this beautiful tartan, and this pattern and picture are not to be sold.

3 grey

Newfoundland Tartan # 2 finished.

Newfoundland Tartan

Newfoundland Tartan crochet and weave pattern

Newfoundland Rug adaption of Newfoundland Tartan

This is a passed down version and to my knowledge and the knowledge of the lady who gave it to me years ago, is exactly that. If there is a problem with a copyright, I will certainly remove this.

My personal variation is:- 

Materials:= 5 mm crochet hook for afghan 6 mm crochet hook for woven chains.

Yarn - 4 200 gram balls of green

3 200 gram balls of dark brown

1 100gram ball each of red - yellow - white

Using smaller hook and brown chain 201 stitches. Double crochet in fifth chain from hook, skip one single crochet and double crochet in next single crochet. Repeat across for a total of 99 spaces. This is very important. When you are changing colours chain four to move up.

2 brown

9 green

1 yellow

9 green

2 brown

1 white

4 brown

1 green

2 red

1 green

4 brown

1 white

2 brown

repeat above from top to bottom twice, then end with

9 green

1 yellow

9 green

2 brown

This is the mesh background of the afghan, you can either weave strands of yarn through or do as I do and crochet a chain that is the length from top to bottom and add four inches for wiggle room. I personally change to a larger hook as stated above and chain 200 stitches. You will need one chain for each row.

Weave over under on first row, then under over and repeat the weaving in this form, this is what fill it in so nicely.

I have also found that crocheting in the ends as you go along is a great time saver. If you do not want fringe, weave in each chain strand on the top and bottom and work a row of single crochet around the afghan, working three single crochets in each corner. Then go around with a half double crochet followed with a round of single crochet to finish.

Start weaving in the same order as crocheted from the extreme right towards you. Mark right side.

I lock on top and bottom of each chain with crochet hook pull through, and then add a five strand fringe cut at least ten inches long to match the colour in each of the woven strands. It will go as illustrated. I have used Red heart in this particular afghan and love bright colours.

Beautiful tartans

Canadian Maple Leaf Tartan

WILSON Scotch tartan  my mother's tartan.

James tarta my mother in laws tartan

Black Watch tartan in bright blue rather than the darker navy and bottle greens.

Moore Scotish tartan.

Book that started it all and is now outrageously priced when one can find a copy of the original.  

This is another of Jenny Kings beautiful books on tartans, a ltof detail.   There are several others and all worth their mimimal cost as the directions are second to none.

Jenny King designs beautiful book to work from with a lot of hard work gone into this.  It is different from the patterns I had passed down and crocheted and I prefer her intellect and beauty in working these large blankets.

Wilson Tartan my mom's maiden name and this is Wilson scotch tartan.  I plan to work my rendition of this one out and crochet.

Work in progress pictures.

 Weaving more than one cord at a time and being confident that they will not come undone until I need to shorten or lengthen them.

Weaving being done with single safety pin, later reverted to safety pins in each cord being woven though, it moved along quicker.  Nova Scotia tartan.

Newfoundland tartan displaying how the weave looks like all woven using a crochet cording rather than three strands of yarn woven through.  My personal preference.

Weave of Cape Breton tartan showing white tv tray/table used underneath.