Get your home ready for the spring months with this Crochet Step Up Pillow Pattern. It uses a brown and yellow color combination reminiscent of bees and spring, but feel free to pick your own colors to make it truly yours. By crocheting through the back loop, you add a gentle ribbed texture that makes the colors pop and adds an interesting detail to your decor. Completing a set of these crochet pillows will bring a fresh and lively vibe to any room, perfect for welcoming the summer season. So, whether you want to add a cozy touch to sofas, brighten up beds want comfy support in reading nooks, following the beginner-friendly pattern we are sharing will surely delight you!
Making Your Step Up Pillow
Materials
- Bernat® Maker Home Dec™ (8.8 oz/250 g; 317 yds/290 m)
- Contrast A Gold (11003) 1 ball
- Contrast B Clay (11008) 1 ball
- Size U.S. L/11 (8 mm) crochet hook or size needed to obtain gauge. 20″ [51 cm]pillow form.
Abbreviations:
- Approx = Approximately
- Beg = Beginning
- Ch = Chain(s)
- Cont = Continue(it)
- Dc = Double crochet
- Pat = Pattern
- Rem = Remain(ing)
- Rep = Repeat
- RS = Right side
- Sl st = Slip stitch
- St(s) = Stitch(es)
- Tog = Together
- WS = Wrong side
- Yoh = Yarn over hook
Measurement
- Approx 20″ [51 cm] square.
Gauge
- 10 sc and 11 rows = 4″ [10 cm].
Step By Step pattern
Note: To join a new color, work to the last loops on the hook of the first color. Yoh with new color, draw through loops and proceed with a new color. With A, ch 94.
- Foundation row: (RS). 1 dc in 4th ch from hook. 1 dc in next ch. Ch 3. Sl st in next ch. Skip the next 3 ch. 1 dc in each of the next 2 ch. Skip the next 2 ch. Slip St in next ch. *Ch 3. 1 dc in each of the next 2 ch. Ch3. Sl st in next ch. Skip the next 3 ch. 1 dc in each of the next 2 ch. Skip the next 2 ch. Slip St in next ch. Rep from * to last 3 ch. Ch 3. 1 dc in each of the last 3 ch. Turn.
- 1st row: Working in back loops only, *Ch 3.1 dc in each of the next 2 dc. Ch 3. Sl st in top of next ch 3 from the previous row. 1 dc in each of next 2 dc. Sl st in top of next from the previous row. Rep from * to last 3sts. 1 dc in each of the last 2 dc and top of ch-3 from the previous row. Turn.
The Last Row Forms Pat:
- Cont in pat as established until work frombeg measures approx 40″ [101.5 cm], working 2 rows of A and B throughout. Fasten off.
Finishing:
- Fold work in half with WS tog. Sew 2 sides of tog. Insert pillow form. Sew remedies closed.