The crochet pattern of the “spider” for many years remains one of the most common in the world. It serves for the manufacture of a huge variety of items: from clothing and bags to pillowcases and jewelry.
The reason for the popularity and relevance of the pattern is that it is quite simple to calculate, it can be combined with other schemes, it can be easily increased or decreased, and can also be used to form vertical or horizontal openwork stripes.
The components of the pattern
Using the example of the diagram shown in the following figure, we can describe the formation of the main element of the spider pattern.
The ornament owes its name to the outward resemblance of the openwork part of each quadrangular element to a spider, whose paws stick out in different directions. These quadrangles can be very close to each other (as on the bottom of the diagram) or be scattered across the canvas (as in the diagram above).
The crochet pattern of the “spider” consists of the following components:
- Framing the pattern.
- Dense central part (spider body).
- Chains of air loops (VP) that connect the frame with a dense middle (spider legs).
We will learn to perform this pattern.
Crochet spider pattern: basic principle of education
The framing of the pattern is most often made up by “bushes”: double crochet with a common base, a variant is also common in which four double crochet (CCH) are used. Framing has steps with a shift to the right or left:
- I p: one step of 3SSN.
- II r: two steps from 3SSN between which there is an air loop.
- III p: the left step is shifted to the right, 3VP, a column with two yarn, 3VP, the left step is shifted to the left.
- IV p: right step with a shift to the right, 3VP, 3 single crochet (RLS), 3VP, left tupenka with a shift to the left. Further formation of the rhombus occurs with increasing distance between the steps. It is compensated by an increase in the number of RLS in the center of the element. The number of VPs in the chains is always the same.
- V p: in this example, this series is the widest, here 5. Further, the pattern provides for the convergence of the framing steps and a reduction in the number of RLS in the center.
- VI r: the right step moves to the left (the first CCH fits in the last CCH steps of the previous row, the rest - in the first VP of the chain), 3VP, 3SBN, 3VP, the left step moves to the right.
- VII p: right step, 3VP, double crochet, 3VP, left step.
- VIII p: two steps, between them 1VP.
- IX p: one step.
How to expand or shorten a pattern
This ornament may contain a larger number of rows. If desired, knitting after the 5th row can continue to expand. To do this, the right step should be shifted to the right, and the left - to the left, while the number of air loops in the chains will remain the same (three), and the number of single crochet columns will increase by two in each row (seven, nine, and so on). Naturally, the crochet pattern of the “spider” will also include a larger number of rows in which the steps will shift to the center of the element.
To reduce the width of each rhombus, it is worth stopping the expansion, stopping, for example, on the 4th row. In this case, the 5th row will include the shift of the right step to the left, and the left to the right.
Practical knitting: spiders pattern in clothes
With the help of this ornament, the craftswomen knit various summer products:
- Skirts.
- Blouses, pullovers and blouses.
- Dresses.
- Scarves, shawls, capes, pelerines.
Shawls with the "spiders" pattern are easiest to knit from corner to wide edge. In this case, the canvas will constantly expand on both sides. The addition of loops is quite simple: when moving the steps at the beginning of the row, additional VPs are gathered, and at the end of the row, each double crochet is knitted from the base of the previous one.