The Shining - Working the arm section

Working and centering the arm of the motif can be a bit tricky, so I’ve taken some blow-by-blow pictures to assist if you’re needing a little nudge in the right direction. At this point, I’ve already made the centre part of the motif (in the pattern/blanket it’s red yarn, but here it’s a reddish-brown colour). I’ve also crocheted the two rounds with the second colour (brown in the pattern/blanket, and yellow here).

We’re about to begin the “Arm” section of the pattern, so this is what your motif should look like as we begin.

Here we’ve got the main motif made and we’re set to begin the “Arm” section of the pattern. Note that we end the round off-centre, which means the arm will line up perfectly to have a centred arm when complete.

Here we’ve worked the chain stitches and are working our way back up the arm towards the main motif.

We’ve now worked all of the dc stitches up one side of the arm and are about to anchor the arm to the main motif.

Here, we’ve worked the slip stitch into the ch-2 sp. Note how we’ve got half the arm made, which is located off to the side of your slst.

Now, we’ve chained 3 sts and then anchored into the 2nd dc stitch.

The motif has been turned so the wrong side is facing and we’re working back down the length of the arm.

And here we’ve finished working down the length of the arm. Note how the arm is located in relation to the central motif.

The arm is done! Now, you just need to make a bunch more of them… :)