Pattern - Hanging Rainbow

As my previous post, I made my Rainbow Bunting to display in my window for passers by. I did warn this was just the start! And now I have made some little rainbows to hang along side it. 

I'd love to share the pattern for this quick and easy make and hopefully it will cheer you and any passers by up during this strange isolation period

(if you are reading this after 2020, what a weird year that was!)


Pattern in UK Terminology

Hook - 3.5mm

Yarn
Cotton 4 ply Weight in rainbow colours - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet with a different colour for joining and edging (I used pink)
I used Scheepjes Catona (this yarn is gorgeous if you have never used before!)

Construction
The rainbow will be made in a circle which will be folded over and the edges crocheted together. This means it can hang in a window and have the same finished look on both sides

With Violet, make a Magic Ring

Round 1 - ch3 (counts as a st throughout pattern), 13 tr into ring, join with a sl st in 3rd ch of beginning ch3 (14 sts)
Fasten off and change to Indigo

Round 2 - ch3, 1 tr in same st, 2 tr in each st around, join with a sl st in 3rd ch of beginning ch3 (28 sts)
Fasten off and change to Blue

Round 3 - ch3, 1 tr in same st, *1 tr in next st, 2 tr in next st*, repeat from * until end, join with a sl st in 3rd ch of beginning ch3 (42 sts)
Fasten off and change to Green

Round 4 - ch3, 1 tr in same st, *1 tr in next 2 sts, 2 tr in next st*, repeat from * until end, join with a sl st in 3rd ch of beginning ch3 (56 sts)
Fasten off and change to Yellow

Round 5 - ch3, 1 tr in same st, *1 tr in next 3 sts, 2 tr in next st*, repeat from * until end, join with a sl st in 3rd ch of beginning ch3 (70 sts)
Fasten off and change to Orange

Round 6 - ch3, 1 tr in same st, *1 tr in next 4 sts, 2 tr in next st*, repeat from * until end, join with a sl st in 3rd ch of beginning ch3 (84 sts)
Fasten off and change to Red

Round 7 - ch3, 1 tr in same st, *1 tr in next 5 sts, 2 tr in next st*, repeat from * until end, join with a sl st in 3rd ch of beginning ch3 (98 sts)
Fasten off 

Joining
Folding the piece in half with the RS facing, join the pink yarn at the right hand corner, through sts on both sides of Round 7 joining them together (note - both sts would be next to each other if piece was opened flat). 
All the sts in Round 8 will be worked through the top sts of both sides of the folded piece

Round 8 - ch1 (does not count as st), 1 dc in same st and next 23 sts around, sl st into the next st, ch20, join with a sl st into the same st, 1 dc in next st and next 23 sts around until the end (48 sts)

Fasten off and weave in ends

Happy Hooking
Kelly@lovedotty

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