I had originally hoped to use the triangles in this bunting to make a ‘Pansy Pizza’.  Unfortunately, I am still not completely happy with how the finished Pansy Pizza looks, so you will have to wait a little bit longer while I tweak the triangle pattern. In the meantime, feel free to make this Crochet Pansy Bunting.

This is a dribs and drabs design, by which I mean that it is not a stand-alone pattern.  If you intend to follow these instructions offline, please make sure that you also save the instructions for the Crochet Pansies, which you can find HERE.

Granny’s Crochet Pansy Triangle

©Dedri Uys 2014.  All Rights Reserved.  Edited by Venetia Smith

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Difficulty

Intermediate

Materials

• Double knit yarn in 1 (or 2) colours for the triangles and 3 colours for the pansies.
• 4 mm Crochet Hook  (US G/6  UK 8)
• Yarn needle

Abbreviations

US Crochet Terminology used throughout.  US/UK Conversion HERE.  

• Ch – Chain
• Dc – Double crochet
• Sc – Single crochet
• Sl st – Slip stitch
• Sp/sps – Space/spaces
• St/sts – Stitch/stitches
• [] – used to indicate stitches to be worked into the same st/sp
• () and * – repeat the instructions between parentheses and asterisks the number of times specified.

Optional Special Stitches

First Bobble Stitch

Start with a sl st in the indicated st/sp.  Ch 3.  (Yarn over and insert your hook into the same st as the sl st, yarn over and pull up a loop, yarn over and pull through 2 loops) twice.  Yarn over and pull through all 3 loops on your hook.

Subsequent Bobble Stitches

Yarn over and insert your hook into the indicated st/sp.  Yarn over and pull up a loop.  Yarn over and pull through 2 loops.  (Yarn over and insert your hook into the same st/sp, yarn over and pull up a loop, yarn over and pull through 2 loops) twice.  Yarn over and pull through all 4 loops on your hook.

You can find the photo tutorial for the First Bobble Stitch and the Subsequent Bobble Stitch HERE.

Instructions

Following the photo tutorial below, make as many Pansy Triangles as you want/need for your bunting.  Then follow the instructions for joining them to each other to create the bunting. If you would like to add leaf-like bobbles to your bunting, you will find additional instructions at the end of Round 1.

Step 1:  Crochet the Pansy Triangles

Pansy

To start, make a Pansy following THIS PANSY PATTERN.  When you have crocheted the Pansy, continue with Round 1 below.

Round 1

With the right side of the Pansy facing you, join your yarn by making a sl st in the 5^th ch-2 sp of the first Large Petal {Photos 1 and 2}.  Ch 8 (counts as first dc and ch-5 sp) and dc in the same ch-2 sp {Photo 3}.

Ch 5, skip the next ch-2 sp and sc in the next ch-2 sp {Photo 4}.  Ch 5, skip the next 8 ch-2 sps and sc in the next ch-2 sp {Photo 5}.  Ch 5 and skip the next ch-2 sp.  [Dc, ch 5, dc] into the next ch-2 sp {indicated with an arrow in Photo 6 and illustrated in Photo 7}.

Ch 5, skip the next 2 ch-2 sps and sc in the next ch-2 sp.  This sc should fall in the second-to-last ch-2 space of the second Large Petal {Photo 8}.

Ch 5, sc in the 5^th st of the first Small Petal {in other words, the third tr -see Photo 9}.  Ch 5.  [Dc, ch-5, dc] in the 5^th st of the next Small Petal {in other words, the third tr -see Photo 10}.  Ch 5, sc in the 4^th st of the last Small Petal {in other words, the second tr -see Photo 11}.

Ch 5, sc in the 2^nd ch-2 sp of the first Large Petal {Photo 12}.  Ch 5 and join to the third chain of the initial ch-8 with a sl st {Photo 13}.

Stitch Count:  6 dc, 6 sc, and 12 ch-5 sps

Optional Leaves

If you would like to make little Bobble Stitch leaves in the corners, replace the beginning ch-3 with a First Bobble Stitch {Photo 1} and replace all the other dc in this round with a Subsequent Bobble Stitch {Photos 2 and 3}.

You can find the photo tutorial for the Bobble Stitch HERE.

Round 2

Ch 3 (this counts as your first dc).  *[2 dc, tr, ch 2, tr, 2 dc] into the ch-5 corner sp {Photo 1}.  (Dc in the next st {Photo 2} and make 5 dc in the next ch-5 sp {Photo 3}) three times {Photo 4}.  Dc in the last st before the corner sp.*  Repeat from * to * 2 more times, omitting the very last dc on the last repeat.  Join to the top of the beginning ch-3 with a sl st.

Stitch Count:  75 sts and 3 ch-2 sps {25 sts per side}

Round 3

Ch 1 and sc in the same st.  Sc in the next 3 sts {Photo 1}.  ([Sc, ch 2, sc] into the ch-2 corner sp {Photo 2}.  Sc in each of the 25 sts across) 3 times, omitting the last 4 sc on the last repeat.  Join to the first sc with a sl st.  Fasten off and work away your ends.

Stitch Count:  81 sc and 3 ch-2 sps {27 sc per side}

Step 2:  Creating the Bunting

This is the super easy bit.  You can make the chains on either end of the bunting as long or as short as you fancy.  You can also put the triangles right next to each other, or space them with 20 chains, as I have done.  I’m going to tell you how I did it, and then you can improvise :)

With any colour yarn and using the same size hook as for the triangles, chain 40 {Photo 1}.  *Sc in the first ch-2 sp along the top of the first triangle {Photo 2}.  Sc in each of the 27 sts along the top of the triangle {Photo 3}.  Sc in the ch-2 corner sp.*

Chain 20 and add the next triangle by repeating the instructions between asterisks above.  Do this until you have attached all your triangles {Photo 4}.  When you have attached the last one, chain 40 again and fasten off.

And there you have it… Colourful Crochet Pansy Bunting!

Update 2021:  You can see from my photos that I did not block my triangles.  This was one of the first patterns I ever shared, and I wasn’t so hot on blocking back then.  Now, I would advise you to block the triangles so that the corners are nice and crisp!  Blocking will also ‘open up’ the lace part of the pattern so that the Pansy has more room to breathe.

Please note that the photo below shows an updated version of the triangle, not the original used above for the bunting.  I am sharing it merely to illustrate what a good blocking can achieve.

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