Although acorns come in various shapes, this second acorn motif is an ode to a more “natural” looking acorn.
Inspiration for this second acorn motif
After working up the acorn granny square version 1, I kept wanting to make the acorn more “natural” in shape and arrived at this second acorn motif option. In order to turn this one into a granny square, we do need to add an additional border round.
Construction
To crochet up this acorn motif we are following the same construction as our granny square acorn, we start with the body of the acorn, then crochet the cap, and then we move on to going from a slightly triangular shape to a square shape.
How to crochet Second acorn motif
Materials:
- yarn in 3 colors – I used worsted weight cotton yarn (Sugar and Cream
- hook to go with it – I used a 5mm Tulip Hook
- 4 stitch markers
- scissors
Size:
4.75″ x 4.75″ square without blocking with the above mentioned yarn and hook.
Abbreviations – US terms
- ch – chain
- sc – single crochet
- sc2inc – single crochet increase
- sc2dec – single crochet decrease
- sk – skip
- sl st – slip stitch
- Granny stitch – 3 dc in the same space
- Granny Corner – granny stitch, ch2, granny stitch all in the same space
- Modified corner – 2 ext-dc, ch2, 2 ext- dc all in the same space
- ext dc – extended double crochet – YO, insert your hook into the st, YO pull up a loop, YO pull through 1 loop on the hook, YO pull through 2 loops, YO pull through 2 loops
- stacked single crochet – make a single crochet, insert your hook into the left leg of the single crochet, YO and pull up a loop, YO pull through 2 loops. This is an alternate to a ch3 and stands in for a beg double crochet stitch
Notes:
- ch 1 at the beg of the round doesn’t count as a stitch
- bold numbers at the end of a row indicate stitch counts
Body of the Acorn
- Ch2, sc in the 2nd chain from the hook, ch1 and turn.
- 3 sc in the sc, ch1 and turn.
- Sc2inc, sc, sc2inc, ch1 and turn – 5sc
- Sc, sc2inc, sc, sc2inc,sc, ch1 and turn – 7sc
- Sc, sc2inc, 3sc, sc2inc, sc, ch1 and turn – 9sc
- For the next 3 rows (6,7,8) we are going to sc in each st, ch1 and turn. At the end of row 8 we switch to color 2 , don’t cut color 1, we are going to carry this color for 1 row. Leave a long tail (16”) of brown color.
Top of the acorn
- Sc, ch1, sc in first st, sc in each st until 1 remains, sc, ch1, sc in this last st, ch1 and turn.
- Sc, sk ch, sc2dec, 5sc, sc2dec, sk the ch,sc in the last st . 9sc.
- sc2dec, twice , sc, sc2dec twice, ch1 don’t turn. 5sc
Borders
- 27 sl sts around our acorn motif switching colors to match the acorn, color 2 for the cap and color 1 for the body. Here is where we use our long tails.
- Using the color 2 for the cap, find the middle sl st, and work sc,ch2,sc in the stitch, switch to color 3 and work a sc, sc2inc, [sc, ch1, sc] in the next st (this will mark our corner), 6sc, [sc, ch1, sc] 6sc, [sc,ch1,sc] 6sc, [sc, ch1, sc], 2 sc, sl st to the ch2 space. 23 sc, 4 corners, and one stem for the acorn.
Granny st rounds
Still using color 3, work 3hdc into the ch2 space of the stem, ch1, [sk2, granny st, ch1] x2, sk2, Granny corner (see notes) in the ch1 space, ch1, *[sk2, granny st, ch1] x2, sk2, Modified Granny Corner (see notes) in the ch1 space , ch1; rep from * once more, [sk2, granny st, ch1] x2, sk2, Granny corner (see notes) in the ch1 space, sc to the first hdc to close the round.
Round 2: Stacked sc in the space created by the sc join, ch1, [Granny st in the ch2 space, ch1] x2, Granny corner in the ch2 space, * ch1, [Granny st in the ch2 space, ch1] x 3, Granny corner in the ch2 space; rep from * two more times, ch1, 2 dc in beg space, sl st to the stacked sc to close the round.
I think with the pumpkin and these two acorn granny squares, I’ve filled my quota of autumnal inspired granny squares.
