April Showers Mandala MAL: Part 3 (English US)

Welcome to last part of April Showers Mandala crochet make-a-long. Today we’ll add second lace border to our mandala and frame it with a tiny edging.

Translations:

 Nederlands - vertaald door Carmen Jorissen (New Leaf Designs)  

PART 2 can be found HERE

INSTRUCTIONS

Copyright! An original LillaBjörnCrochet Design (Tatsiana Kupryianchyk). Copyright 2014-2019. All rights reserved. This pattern is for personal use only. It cannot be sold, redistributed or edited in any way. No translations and video tutorials are allowed without permission. You can sell your finished products, but you cannot use my pictures to promote them. Please, always note me as a designer of this pattern. Thank you!

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On next rounds continue with C4.

Round 25: Turn and continue on WS! First FPdc is made around ch3 below.

Ch2 (not a st), [13FPdc, FPdc3tog around next 3 sts, 13 FPdc, (dc, ch2, dc) in next ch2-sp] x8, join with ss in first FPdc, turn, ss in next FPdc, ss in next ch2-sp – 26 FPdc, 1 FPdc3tog and 2 dc on each side, ch2-sp in each corner

Round 26: Continue on RS. Make ch5 and 1dc in same ch2-sp as join instead of first (dc, ch2, dc) – for all rounds up to Round 29.

[(dc, ch2, dc) in next ch2-sp, *ch3, skip 2 sts, sc in next st, ch3, skip 2 sts, dc in next st* x4, ch3, skip 2 sts, sc in next st, ch3, skip 2 sts] x8, join with ss in first sp – 6 dc, 5 sc and 10 ch3-sps on each side, ch2-sp in each corner

Round 27: [(dc, ch2, dc) in next ch2-sp, ch1, dc in next dc, *ch1, dc in next sp, ch1, dc in next sp, ch1, dc in next dc* x5, ch1] x8 making last dc in joining ss of prev round, join with ss in first sp – 18 dc and 17 ch1-sps on each side, ch2-sp in each corner

Round 28: [(dc, ch2, dc) in next ch2-sp, *ch1, dc in next dc* x2, *ch3, skip next sp and dc, sc in next sp, ch3, skip next dc and sp, dc in next st* x5, ch1, dc in next dc, ch1] x8 making last dc in joining ss of prev round, join with ss in first sp – 10 dc, 5 sc, 4 ch1-sps and 10 ch3-sps on each side, ch2-sp in each corner

Round 29: [(dc, ch2, dc) in next ch2-sp, *ch1, dc in next dc* x3, *ch1, dc in next sp, ch1, dc in next sp, ch1, dc in next dc* x5, *ch1, dc in next dc* x2, ch1] x8 making last dc in joining ss of prev round, join with ss in first sp – 22 dc and 21 ch1-sps on each side, ch2-sp in each corner

Round 30: Ch1 (not a st), [ch2, sc in same sp, ch3, skip dc+sp+dc, sc in next sp, ch3, skip next dc and sp, dc in next dc, *ch3, skip next sp and dc, sc in next sp, ch3, skip next dc and sp, dc in next st* x5, ch3, skip next sp and dc, sc in next sp, ch3, skip dc+sp+dc, sc in next ch2-sp] x8, join with ss in first sp – 6 dc, 9 sc and 14 ch3-sps on each side, ch2-sp in each corner

Round 31: First sc is made in same ch2-sp as join.

Ch1 (not a st), [sc in next ch2-sp, ch1, skip sc, sc in next sp, ch2, skip sc, sc in next sp, ch1, *ch1, dc in next sp, ch1, dc in next sp, ch1, dc in next dc* x4, *ch1, dc in next sp* x2, *ch2, sc in next sp* x2, ch1, skip sc] x8, join with ss in first sc – 14 dc, 4 sc, 4 ch2-sps and 15 ch1-sps on each side, 1 sc in each corner

Round 32: First dc is made in same st as join.

Ch2 (not a st), [dc in next st (mark as corner), dc in next sp, dc in next st, *2dc in next sp, dc in next st* x2,*dc in next sp, dc in next st* x13 (or 26 dc), *2dc in next sp, dc in next st* x2, dc in next sp] x8, join with ss in first dc (change to C5, cut C4) – 41 dc on each side, 1 dc in each corner

Round 33: Turn and continue on WS. With C5. Ch1 (not a st), skip ch2 below, FPdc around each st around, join with ss in first FPdc, turn – 336 FPdc

Round 34: Continue on RS. First tr4tog will be ch3 and 3tr in same st as ss.

Ss in next st, [tr4tog in next st, ch3, tr4tog in next st, skip 3 sts, sc in next st, *ch3, skip 2 sts, sc in next st* x11, skip 2 sts, tr4tog in next st, ch3] x8, join with ss in first tr4tog (change to C2, cut C5) – 2 tr4tog, 12 sc and 13 ch3-sps on each side, 1 tr4tog in each corner

Round 35: First sc is made in same st as join.

With C2. Ch1 (not a st), [1sc in next tr4tog, ch2, dc4tog in next sp, ch2, dc in next tr4tog, ch1, dc in next sc, sc in next sp, *ch3, sc in next sp* x10, dc in next sc, ch1, dc in next tr4tog, ch3, dc4tog in next sp, ch2] x8, join with ss in first sc (change to C3, cut C2) – 2 dc4tog, 4 dc, 11 sc, 4 ch2-sps, 2 ch1-sps and 10 ch3-sps on each side, 1 sc in each corner

Round 36: With C3. First dc3tog will be ch2 and 2dc in same sc.

[dc3tog in next sc, ch2, dc3tog in next sp, ch2, skip dc4tog, 3dc in next sp, dc in next dc, dc in next sp, dc in next dc, skip sc, sc in next sp, *ch3, sc in next sp* x9, skip sc, dc in next dc, dc in next sp, dc in next dc, 3dc in next sp, ch2, dc3tog in next sp, ch2] x8, join with ss in first dc3tog – 2 dc3tog, 12 dc, 10 sc, 4 ch2-sps and 9 ch3-sps on each side, dc3tog in each corner

Round 37: Continue with C3. First picot is made in same dc3tog as join. Omit first ss.

[ss in next dc3tog, picot, ch3, ss in next dc3tog, picot, ch3, sc in next sp, ch3, skip 2 sts, dc in next st, ch3, skip 2 sts, sc in next st, *ch3, dc in next sp, ch3, sc in next sp* x4, ch3, dc in next sp, ch3, skip sc, sc in next st, ch3, skip 2 sts, dc in next st, ch3, skip 2 sts, sc in next sp, ch3, ss in next dc3tog, picot, ch3] x8, join with ss in first picot, fasten off. Block Mandala.

Congratulations! Your April Showers Madnala is now finished!

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