Connor Blanket - May CAL Part 5

Good afternoon all. Well, here it is! The last 3 rounds for this crochet along!

I truly hope everyone has enjoyed this pattern. There have been a few hiccups along the way with typo's and I am truly sorry for that. Not enough proof reading on my behalf! I feel like I'm a little out of practice, it's the first pattern I've put up in a very long time. Promise the next one will be much better <3

Errors aside, if you've got to this point you should have a pretty round baby blanket! I am so pleased with the stitches of the Connor blanket!

Now a note on the edge. Once you get to the end of the blanket, you'll notice a slight ruffle. This is pretty typical of most round blankets. Your options are to leave it, or to block it (using a method that works with the yarn type you've used) Personally I like it like that, so I've left it, but if I was going to flatten the blanket completely I'd go with a soak in water and pinning it out to a board to dry.

Be sure to add your finished photos over on the Ravelry project page, I'd love to see what your end products look like! If you are in Australia and are looking for a home for your blanket, I can't recommend Chance's Clothes Project enough! Every donated item gets used to make amazing bereavement packs distributed freely across Australia.

Enough chatter though, let's finish this blanket!

Pattern Notes:

Starting chain is counted in the final stitch count, and counts as the first stitch of each round.
Instructions within * * are to be repeated.
slst - slip stitch
picot - ch3, slst into the first ch.

With colour C

27: Ch3, dc in the same stitch, dc, hdc, sc, 3sc in the ch3 space, sc, hdc, dc, *2dc in the next stitch, dc, hdc, sc, 3sc in the next ch3 space, sc, hdc, dc* -308 stitches

With colour A

28: Ch2, in back loop only for all stitches on this round, hdc in the next stitch, sc in the next 4 stitches, 2sc in the next stitch, sc in the next 4 stitches, *hdc in the next 2 stitches, sc in the next 4 stitches, 2sc in the next stitch, sc in the next 4 stitches*, repeat around, join to the ch2. -348

If you want to make your blanket larger, you can jump back to round 4 and repeat the rounds until the blanket is the size you like. If you are not going to do all the rounds from 4 back to 28, I recommend ending on a round that has a straighter edge (not one of the chain rows for instance) and then completing the picot edging. The edging is a 4 stitch repeat, however because it's a simple picot edge you can change the placement easily enough and make it any stitch number repeat you like. 

With colour A

29: Ch3, dc in the next 2 stitches, picot (to make a picot ch3, slst into the first ch), dc in the next stitch, *dc in the next 3 stitches, picot, dc into the next stitch*, repeat around, join to the ch3. 

That's it lovelies, you are finished! WOOHOO!!