Stylecraft Blogstar Tour 2018: Stacking Hexagon Baskets

Welcome to Crochet Between Worlds for the Stylecraft Blogstar Tour! 

This year's Blogstar Tour yarn is Bellissima which came out earlier this month. Man, we are in love (and we are not obliged to say so!!) - it is incredibly soft and lovely to work with. It is effectively the grown up version of the Bambino yarn we made Michelle's baby blanket out of! 

So when we were asked to design a pattern with the yarn, we were very happy to do so! Unfortunately this year, we are both incredible busy during the Blogtour (and before) with life, so please bear with us if there aren't super fancy tutorials and pictures. We do have good excuses though (we think): Michelle has a newborn at home and Anne just moved country from Germany to the Netherlands last week!

The pack we used for our design is called Autumn Leaves (scroll down for a chance to win this pack!). It contains five colors and a skein has 100 grams. 

If you follow our blog, you know that we dislike sewing. And we love useful and easy things. Combining these "features" the Stacking Hexagon Baskets were born. They can we used for everything really... a bread basket, a toy basket or whatever tickles your fancy. When not used, they can easily stacked into each other, so they won't be space eaters. We hope you like them as much as we do!

Want to win a Autumn Leaves Yarn Pack to make these baskets? The giveaway is open until 10am GMT tomorrow! The giveaway is run by Stylecraft yarns.

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Tomorrow the Blogtour will stop at Cherry Heart! 

Make sure not to miss out on the other Blogstars' patterns (and more chances to win yarn). The tour will run for quite a few more days.

You can visit their blogs here: Crystals and Crochet, Get Knotted Yarn Craft, Every Trick on the Hook, Zooty Owl, Lucia's Fig Tree, Cherry Heart, Hand Knitted Things, Josiekitten, The Twisted Yarn, Annaboo's House, Crafternoon Treats, The Patchwork Heart, Emma Varnam,  Jane Crowfoot and Catherine's Crochet Corner.

Anyway without further ado.... the Stacking Hexagon Baskets!

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FREE PATTERN: Stacking Hexagon Baskets
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Queue and favourite on Ravelry here: 
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/stacking-hexagon-baskets

Materials:

5 balls of Stylecraft Bellissima or other 8 ply yarn

4mm hook

scissors

yarn needle

Stitches:

US terminology

st – stitch

slst – slip stitch

ch – chain

dc – double crochet

Notes:

1. Use the same pattern for all 4 baskets - just add rows to each hexagon to make each consecutive basket bigger: 

• Basket 1 - 4 rows
• Basket 2 - 6 rows
• Basket 3 - 8 rows
• Basket 4 - 10 rows. 

There is enough yarn to make another 4 row basket, possibly 6 rows depending on your colour choices. The size 8 and 10 baskets are real yarn eaters - they look very innocent but man they are hungry! 

2. The first three hexagons of each basket are made in Colour A, and the second three in Colour B.

JAYG INSTRUCTIONS

Basically, the joining method is to drop the loop from your hook, insert your hook front to back through the top two loops of the corresponding dc on the adjacent hexagon, pick up the loop again and pull it through. 

For joining to one corner: After the first dc in a corner chain space, Ch1, drop loop from your hook, insert hook front to back through the chain space you want to join to, pick up the loop again and pull it through. Ch1. continue with the second dc in the corner space.

For joining to two corners: After the join to the final dc, ch1, drop loop from your hook, insert hook front to back through the first corner chain space you want to join to, pick up the loop again and pull it through. Ch1, drop loop from your hook, insert hook front to back through the second corner chain space you want to join to, pick up the loop again and pull it through. Ch1, continue with the second dc in the corner space. 

I've had another go at a brief tutorial video - I hope it helps! 

PATTERN

Start with a magic circle

Row 1: ch5, (2dc, 2ch) 5 times, dc, join to 3^rd of ch5 with slst.

Row 2: slst into chain space, (ch5, dc into same chain space). *dc in each dc, (dc, ch2, dc) into chain space.* Repeat * to *, omitting last dc on final corner. slst to 3^rd of ch5 with slst to close.

Hexagon 1:

Repeat Row 2 until the hexagon is the correct number of rows. 

Hexagon 2:

Repeat Row 2 until you are one row short of the correct number of rows. On the final row, JAYG to Hexagon 1 on two sides.

Hexagon 3:

Repeat Row 2 until you are one row short of the correct number of rows. On the final row, JAYG to Hexagons 1 and 2 on 4 sides.

Hexagon 4:

Repeat Row 2 until you are one row short of the correct number of rows. On the final row, JAYG to Hexagons 1 and 2 on 2 sides.

Hexagon 5:

Repeat Row 2 until you are one row short of the correct number of rows. On the final row, JAYG to Hexagons 2, 3 and 4 on 4 sides.

Hexagon 6:

Repeat Row 2 until you are one row short of the correct number of rows. On the final row, JAYG to Hexagons 1, 3, 4 and 5 on ALL sides.

(The giveaway is run by Stylecraft Yarns, so this makes this a sponsored post. Please note that even though we are Stylecraft Blogstars, we are not obliged to say anything nice or bad about the yarns - we can share our opinions freely and we aren't compensated monetary in any way).