Chapter 8 • Flower, Snowfl ake, and Joining Motifs 213
Gallica Motif
The popcorns burst from this motif to make eye-catching flowers
that you can use as fun dish scrubbies.
Popcorn (pop): 5 dc in st indicated, remove hk, insert hk into 1st
dc, place free lp on hk and pull through dc.
Beginning Popcorn (beg pop): 4 dc in st indicated, remove hk,
insert hk into 1st dc, place free lp on hk and pull through dc.
Make an adjustable ring.
Rnd 1 (RS): Ch 1, 6 sc in ring, pull ring closed, do not turn.
Rnd 2: Ch 3, beg pop in 1st sc, [ch 3, pop in next sc] 5 times, ch 3,
sl st to beg pop, do not turn—6 pop.
Rnd 3: Ch 3, beg pop in prev ch-sp, [(ch 3, pop) twice] in ea ch-3
sp around to last ch-sp, ch 3, pop in last ch-sp, ch 3, sl st in beg
pop, do not turn—12 pop.
Rnd 4: Ch 3, beg pop in prev ch-sp, [(ch 3, pop) twice] in ea ch-3
sp around to last ch-sp, ch 3, pop in last ch-sp, ch 1, hdc in beg
pop, do not turn—24 pop.
Rnd 5: Ch 3 (counts as dc), [dc, hdc, sc] around post of hdc, [sc,
hdc, 3 dc, hdc, sc] in ea ch-3 sp around, [sc, hdc, dc] in 1st ch-1
sp, sl st to top of t-ch, fasten off. 1
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