As I mentioned in an earlier post, Jenny and I have decided to chose our own square on the weeks that Wise Craft doesn’t give them to us for the Granny Square Sampler Afghan Project. This week we chose the Nordic Star Square from Priscilla’s Crochet. We sat down together to work on it last Friday. The square went together quite well until we reached round 8. Neither of us could get it to work out right. I went to look at notes from others on Ravelry who had done the square. A few people mentioned an error in round 8 and gave their fixes. We tried that and still it came out funky, so I played around a bit and came up with my own way to finish the square.

I’m not going to write up the whole pattern here as I want to respect Priscilla’s ownership of it. Instead, I will give you the instructions for the changes I made.

Modified Nordic Star Granny Square

I used worst weight yarn and a size USH8/5.5mm hook. My finished square measures about 6.5″ across.

Abbreviations:

• c – chain
• dc – double crochet
• sk st – skip the next stitch
• hdc – half double crochet
• sc – single crochet
• trc – triple crochet

Do rounds 1 – 6 of Priscilla’s Crochet’s Nordic Star

Round 7: Join your yarn to a dc at the bottom “v” of one of the sides of the star. (it’ll be the 5th dc from the dc at the point).

C4, sk st, dc in next stitch, sk st, hdc in next stitch, sc in next stitch (you should be at the top of the point), hdc in next stitch, sk st, dc in next stitch, trc in next two stitches, c3, trc in next two stitches (this forms your corner), dc in next stitch, sk st, hdc in next stitch, sc in next stitch, hdc in next stitch, sk st, dc in next stitch, sk st, trc in next stitch. *trc in next stitch, sk st, dc in next stitch, sk st, hdc in next stitch, sc in next stitch (you should be at the top of the point), hdc in next stitch, sk st, dc in next stitch, trc in next two stitches, c3, trc in next two stitches, dc in next stitch, sl st, hdc in next stitch, sc in next stitch, hdc in next stitch, sk st, dc in next stitch, sl st, trc in next stitch.* Repeat the directions between * two more times. Join into the top stich of the first c4.

Round 8: c3, dc into the next 8 stitches, 3dc into the c3 stitch from the last round, c3, 3dc into the same space, dc into the next 16 stitches, 3dc into the c3 stitch from the last round, c3, 3dc into the same space, dc into the next 16 stitches, 3dc into the c3 stitch from the last round, c3, 3dc into the same space, dc into the next 16 stitches, 3dc into the c3 stitch from the last round, c3, 3dc into the same space, dc into the next 8 stitches. Join into the top stitch of the first c3. End off.