Welcome to the Chunky Monkey cal....all about octagons

Now all neatly stashed into its own box ready for a week or two of wondeful crochet

One of these fabulous colours will have to go but which?

We needed to have 14 Stylecraft Chunky colours......can you spot the colour I have taken away?

Decided on a 3 round octagon in 14 colours with dozens of colour combinations to follow in stages?

sample of some of the throw octagons below

14 colour, Three round Octagon Pattern

And

The 14 colour simpler pattern below will also be available.

Something for everyone

This cal is going to be all about OCTAGONS, fill-ins and lots of colour.

The pattern with detailed pictures will be added to this site soon.

Use the motif to make the throw or just a cushion if that's all you can manage, but there will be something for everyone I hope.

Links to other octagon patterns will also be available during the length of this

Octagan Chunky Monkey Throw Crochet Along.

We will be using a Stylecraft Special Chunky in 14 colours and you will need a 6mm hook

To access the octagon patterns on the side bar just click on the picture it is linked to the pattern.

All the patterns on this site are my own and free for you to use, give as presents or even sell but all I ask is you credit me for the design please.

ALL PARTS OF THIS PATTERN ARE NOW IN THIS POST

Thank You and have fun

Stage 1 of Pattern1:The 3 colour Octagon

PATTERN 2: Simple one colour Octagon

You will need 14 colours of Chunky or 2 strands of dk.
6 mm hook

US terms

NOTE: I always weave in ends and crochet over them as I go, so I never ever have ends to deal with when a project is finished.
It just takes a few seconds to deal with all the ends as you work a piece and saves the extra hours at the end dealing with them.
If there are any teeny tiny tips of ends showing you just nip them off to tidy up no waste now ends and the piece is finished once the crochet is finished

PATTERN 1: 3 COLOUR OCTAGON

Make a one finger wrap of 3 wraps, or you can ch5, but the finger wrap saves on yarn, has no end, and looks neater.

Round 1: ch2(counts as first dc), 15dc into wrap, sl st to complete. (16dc)

For Stage 1: make 7 circle in all 14 colours, plus 2 extra 1 in Lavender and 1 in Spice

making a total of 100 circles

Stage 2: will be posted in about 3weeks time...if you are quick and finish maybe you cold have a goo at one of the alternative pattern on the site

You could use lots of left overs in a multitude of colours anf join together in a random selection and have a go at....
PATTERN 2

SIMPLE OCTAGON PATTERN

Make a one finger wrap of three wraps, or ch5 sl st, into a circle.

Round 1: ch2 (counts as first dc), 15dc into circle wrap, sl st to complete. (16dc)

Round 2: ch2 (counts as first dc), 1dc into same st,*1dc, ch2,1dc, into next st, 2dc into next st, repeat from * to end,

finish with 1dc, ch2, 1dc in the last st, sl st, to complete. (8sides, 8 corners)

How easy was that?

JOIN AS YOU GO

Join all the octagons together at corners only

Make 100 OCTAGONS For a throw measuring approximately 43" square
109cms

Weight:each motif weighs approximately 6g
Measures: 3.5" (9cms)

This pattern can be made in almost any yarn but will vary in size.
Each motif measures:

Chunky: 4.25" (11cm)

DK: 2.5" ( 6.5cm)

DK Cotton: just under 2.5" (6cm)

If you use the DK or Cotton it will be smaller.

IF MAKING THE SIMPLE VERSION THEN IT COULD EASILY BE MADE BIGGER.

STAGE 2: ROUND 2
US Terms in Black, UK Terms in red

You should now have ready the 100 x 16dc, (16tr, UK Terms) circles.

7 circle in every colour plus two extra circle one in Spice and one in Lavender

Divide your circles into two groups makes it easier to work round 2

Round 2: Change colour, attach yarn in any st, 2sc, (2dc, UK Terms) into each st,

sl st to complete, cut and weave in end. (32sc) (32dc)

FOLLOW COLOURS below:

GROUP 1 x 7 colours

1st round in CAMEL: add a second round in
1 lavender
2 meadow
3 fondant
4 raspberry
5 pomegranate
6 spice
7 gold

1st round in FONDANT: add a second round in
1 spice
2 gold
3 camel
4 copper
5 raspberry
6 pomegranate
7 aspen

1st round in SPICE: add a second round in
1 aster
2 camel
3 pomegranate
4 raspberry
5 copper
6 fondant
7 magenta
8 gold

1st round in POMEGRANATE:add a second round in
1 spice
2 plum
3 fondant
4 raspberry
5 copper
6 camel
7 gold

1st round in RASPBERRY: add a second round in
1 magenta
2 fondant
3 pomegranate
4 spice
5 copper
6 gold
7 camel

1st round GOLD: add second round in
1 plum
2 fondant
3 raspberry
4 spice
5 copper
6 camel
7 pomegranate

1st round COPPER: add a second round in
1 teal
2 fondant
3 pomegranate
4 raspberry
5 spice
6 gold
7 camel

GROUP 2 x 7 colours

1st round in LAVENDER: add a second round in
1 raspberry
2 magenta
3 aspen
4 meadow
5/6 teal x 2
7/8 aster x 2

1st round in MAGENTA: add a second round in
1 spice
2 raspberry
3 teal
4 aspen
5 meadow
6/7 lavender x 2

1st round in TEAL: add second round in
1 gold
2 copper
3 magenta
4 lavender
5 aspen
6 aster
7 meadow

1st round in ASPEN: add a second round in
1 meadow
2 aster
3 meadow
4 teal
5 magenta
6 fondant
7 camel

1st round in ASTER: add a second round in
1 meadow
2 lavender
3 magenta
4 plum
5 gold
6/7 aspen x 2

1st round in PLUM: add a second round in
1 aster
2 meadow
3 aspen
4 lavender
5 magenta
6 pomegranante
7 fondant

1st round in MEADOW: add a second round in
1 camel
2 aspen
3 teal
4 aster
5 lavender
6 magenta
7 pomegranante

It took me bout 2 minutes to do round 2 which was twice what it took for round 1 so allow yourself a few minute per motif, so this round will take a little longer to do than the first but i wont post stage 3 which will be the joining round 3 and a colour chart to follow so you will be able to see how they will come together.

STAGE 3 Chunky Monkey CAL.

STAGE 3: THIRD ROUND AND JOINING ROUND

Round 3: change colour, ch2 counts as first dc, (UK Terms first tr)

1dc (1tr) in next 3 sts,

ch3, 1dc (1tr) into next 4sts,

repeat to end

finish with ch3. sl st to complete

NOTE: This is the join as you go round.

Join as you go....Complete the first row of octagonn motifs JOINING EACH OCTAGON THE THE NEXT

Following the colour chart BELOW.

In the second row match corners

JOIN BY...ch1, ch1 through the matching corner, ch1, then complete the next side

The Octagons are joined making small square holes that we will fill in, in Stage 4

already starting to look like a throw

COLOUR CHART TO COPY AND PASTE AND PRINT

10 Rows of 10 Otagons

Make the first row of 10 JOINING AT SIDE IN A LONG ROW

Listing of colours writen as you look at the throw, but joining as with all crochet is worked from right to left.

PICTURE ABOVE IS THE SAME AS THE CHART BELOW

SO SORRY A MISTAKE IN ROW 1 6th FROM THE RIGHT IT SHOULD BE

COPPER SPICE RASPBERRY

COLOUR CHART FOR CHUNKY MONKEY CAL

3 ROUND OCTAGON: First listed colour is the middle circle

LEFT SIDE as you look at the Throw RIGHT SIDE

Plum Pom Aspen	Rasp Mag Spice	Spice Pom Plum	Gold Rasp Camel	Plum Spice rasp	Pom Fond Gold	Rasp Copper Pom	Spice Copper Gold	Pom Camel Spice	Camel Pom Fond
Fond Aspen Laven	Camel Mead Pom	Plum Fond Gold	Copper Camel Pom	Fond Gold spice	Spice Rasp copper	Copper Gold Fond	Fond Camel Rasp	Spice Camel Pom	Gold Fond Copper
Aster Plum Mead	Teal Gold Magen	Spice Aster Copper	Magen Rasp Fond	Gold Pom Camel	Pom Copper Rasp	Spice Fond Camel	Camel Gold spice	Fond Pom Gold	Pom Gold Camel
Aspen Magen Teal	Mead Laven Aster	Pom Plum Aspen	Mead Camel Laven	Spice Gold Rasp	Copper Fond Gold	Rasp Spice Pom	Copper Pom Fond	Gold Spice Copper	Rasp Fond Pom
Laven Teal Aster	Aster Mead Laven	Teal Magen Plum	Plum Aster Mead	Camel Laven Magen	Pom Spice Copper	Camel Rasp spice	Copper Rasp Gold	Pom Rasp Camel	Gold Copper Rasp
Mead Magen Aspen	Magen Aspen Teal	Aspen Aster Magen	Aster Aspen Teal	Aspen Mead Aster	Magen Laven Pom	Spice Magen Camel	Gold Camel Rasp	Camel Spice Fond	Rasp Pom Spice
Teal Laven Magen	Laven Aster Mead	Teal Mead Aster	Mead Teal Aspen	Plum Magen Laven	Aspen Fond Teal	Fond Rasp Mead	Cam Fond Pom	Rasp Camel Copper	Fond Spice Pom
Magen Teal Laven	Aster Laven Aspen	Magen Laven Plum	Laven Aspen Magen	Aspen Teal Mead	Laven Magen Aster	Aster Gold Plum	Copper Teal Laven	Magen Spice Gold	Rasp Gold Camel

Teal Aster Plum	Aspen Mead Magen	Teal Aspen Laven	Aster Magen Teal	Magen Mead Plum	Aster Aspen Laven	Mead Aster Aspen	Aspen Camel Magen	Gold Plum Fond	Fond Copper Spice
Plum Aspen Teal	Laven Teal Aster	Plum Laven Mead	Laven Mead Aspen	Mead Aspen Aster	Laven Aster Magen	Plum Mead Teal	Teal Copper Plum	Laven Rasp Teal	Mead Pom Camel

STAGE 4 chunky Monkey

FILL-IN SQUARES US Terms in Black UK Terms in Red

Round 1:

One finger wrap of three wraps, or ch 4, sl st, into a circle.

ch2 (counts as first dc/tr),

3dc/3tr, into circle, ch1

, sl st, into a corner sp, ch1,

4dc/4tr, ch1, sl st, into second corner sp, ch1,

repeat for 3rd and...

4th corner

sl st into first st, to complete.

Follow the chart for colours.
Throw should be as picture below:
the first octagon on left in colours: Plum, Pomegranate, aspen
as below

9 squares x 9 rows of mini fill-in squares.

ROW 1:Copper, aster, aspen, teal, meadow, plum, magenta, lavender, aster.

ROW2:Spice, camel,meadow, plum, aster, lavender, teal, aspen, lavender.

ROW 3:Pomegranate, raspberry, teal, magenta, meadow, aspen, magenta, teal, magenta.

ROW 4:Fondant, camel, gold, aspen, plum, lavender, aspen, lavender, plum.

ROW 5:Raspberry, spice, raspberry, camel, fondant, plum, meadow, aster, meadow.

ROW6:Camel, copper, pomegranate, copper, camel, aspen, magenta, plum, teal.

ROW7:Gold, fondant, gold, pomegranate, raspberry, gold, teal, meadow, aspen.

ROW8:Copper, pomegranate, fondant, copper, spice, camel, raspberry, camel, aster.

ROW 9:Spice, copper, gold, camel, raspberry, fondant, pomegranate, spice, lavender.

HAVE FUN...the last stage 5 to see the completed throw in about two weeks time.

I still need to weigh the cooler blue green purple shade, but there is approx. these amounts left to do the border so we will have plenty for an exciting border.

Stage 5: The border

Just a border picture to share for now I will add the completed pattern for the border and more pictures tomorrow

The yarns used Stylecraft Chunky in 14 colours as below......and a 6mm hook used
And I'm adding a few giant flowers too

Finally Stage 5: The Border

After the fiasco of this afternoon I'm not taking any chances with this attempt at the final post so a completely new post that automatically saves it's self.
WELL IT DIDNT QUITE WORK OUT THAT WAY DID IT?

But I now think the post is complete
UK TERMS IN RED

These giant flowers are based on the back of the Fair Isle cushion from a couple of years back and can be made and added for extra decoration to the CHUNKY MONKEY THROW.

The pattern for the Flowers and the cushion for the next cal will be added next week
but you can find the original pattern here without the changes....

5mm Hook, USA terms

finger wrap of 4 wraps, or Ch5, sl st, into a circle

Round 1: 12dc, into circle sl st to complete the round.

crochet over the end as you go.

Round 2: 2SC in each st, sl st to complete

ROUND 3: A clusters of 4tr in 2sts, with 2 chain between each, sl st to complete round

TREBLE CLUSTERS:

2yarn over's and 2 pull throughs holding th stitches on the hook until you have done 3 then last pull though is through all 3 or 4 stitches to make the cluster then a ch to hold the cluster together

Notes to help:

so technically you are doing 3ch, between but 1ch, holds the cluster together and 2ch, gives the spacing

use sl sts, to move to the next starting space when working in one colour

Round 4: sl st to chain space, 4dc, in each chain space. sl st to complete round

Round 5: 1dc in each of the next 4 stitch, then ch3, repeat in each of the 12 sections,

sl st to complete the round

Round 6: sl st, to middle of the 4dc of round 4 (as picture below),

then do 4dc, ch3, 4dc, in the chain loop anchor with a sl st in the centre of the next 4dc of round 4, repeat until round completed

lots of these flowers can be joined together to make another blanket

The Border of the chunky Monkey

A narrow border of 7 colours, one half in the pinks, oranges and yellows on the blue, green and purple half....and a 7 colour border of the blue, green and purple on the pink orange and yellow side.

In a sequence of

1: fondant

2: raspberry

3: pomegranate

4: spice

5: copper

6: gold

7: camel

And.....

1: plum

2: magenta

3: lavender

4: aster

5: aspen

6: teal

7: meadow

COLOUR CHANGE

Making a colour change halfway round on the third corner.

Start on the motif that has a centre of plum, and ring of pomegranate and an outer

octagon of aspen.

Round 1: attach the first colour (fondant) in the 3rd St on the corner

Sc, (dc), in next st,

CORNERS: sc, (dc), in ch sp, ch2, sc (dc) in the same sp, sc (dc)

sc, (dc) in the next 4sts and the ch sp, ch6,

sc (dc) in the next ch sp,

sc (dc) in the next 4st, sc (dc) in the next ch sp

continue to do 6sc, (6dc), 6ch in the sp, until you reach the next corner, 1sc, ch2, 1sc, (1dc,ch2,1dc), in the ch sp, 1sc,(dc) in the next 4 sts, 1sc, ch2, 1sc, (1dc,ch2,1dc) in the next ch sp, continue with the 6sc, 6ch, (6dc, 6ch) until you reach the third corner change colour on this corner.

CHANGING COLOUR

On the third sc (dc), half make the sc, (dc), attach the colour change and pull through the last st, continue using the new colour