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Wheel Circle Motif Free Pattern

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A popular use for circle motifs these days is sewing a single crocheted circle as a decorative trim on a t-shirt, tank top or other type of fabric top. You may also enjoy crocheting multiples of this motif to join into other types of items. This is a pattern that I adapted from an 1899 pattern called a "wheel trimming".

My Rewritten Directions, With My Own Variation of the 1899 Pattern:

Abbreviations:
ch = chain
dc = double crochet
dtr = double treble
sl st = slip stitch
st = stitch
tr = treble

Materials: Use size thread of your choice. Just to give an idea of finished width, the sample is made with size 10 thread and a US size 8 steel hook and is about 3 inches in diameter.
Starting Chain: Chain 15. Join to form a ring.
Rnd 1: Ch 1, 36 sc in ring. End with a slip stitch in the beginning sc.
Rnd 2: Ch 5 (counts as first dtr), work a 2 dtr cluster over next 2 sts, * ch 4, work a 3 dtr cluster over next 3 sts, repeat from * around. End with a sl st in the top of the beginning cluster. (12 clusters altogether).
Rnd 3: Ch 3 (counts as first dc), (tr, dtr, ch 2, dtr, tr) in ch-4 space, * dc in next cluster (tr, dtr, ch 2, dtr, tr) in ch-4 space, repeat from * around. Join in top of ch-3.
Rnd 4: Sl st in next tr and sl st in next dtr (to reach the ch-2 space), sl st in ch-2 space, ch 1, sc in ch-2 space, * ch 7, sc in next ch-2 space, repeat from * around. Sl st in first sc, to join.
Rnd 5: Sl st in ch-7 space, ch 1, 10 sc in ch-7 space, * 10 sc in next ch-7 space, repeat from * around. Join with sl st to beginning stitch.
End off.

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Pattern originally printed in A Treatise on Embroidery, Crochet and Knitting, published in the year 1899. This places the book as old enough to now be in the public domain.
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