The Baroco Placemat, Christmas crochet tablemat, is a wonderful addition to your Christmas table décor that will add a beautiful personal touch to your festive dining experience. Bring on the mince pies and hot chocolate!

The placemat is made using Tunisian crochet and stranded colourwork technique and two colours. Both strands of yarn are carried at the back of the work and long floats are trapped on the consecutive row of work. Blocking the placemat at the ends is essential to ameliorate for the curling and evening out stitches.

Skills required:

Chain, Tunisian crochet technique (alternating forward and return passes), Tunisian simple stitch (tss), stranded colourwork, Tunisian simple stitch bind-off, blocking.

Materials and Tools:

Hobbii Friends Wool (100% Wool | Worsted weight | 50 g (1.75 oz) = 100 m (109 yds)), (#114) Sage 1 (2) ball(s) (A), (#55) Mulberry 1 (2) ball(s) (B)

Tunisian crochet hook size 6.5 mm (US size K/10.5) with cable (at least 25.5 cm (10”)) or size to obtain the gauge

Tapestry needle

Scissors

Notes:

The Christmas crochet tablemat is worked flat, RS facing from right to left.

Similar worsted weight yarns may be substituted; please check gauge and yarn content.

The stitch count refers to the number of lps on hook on FP.

The stitch pattern repeat is worked over 13 sts, while row pattern repeat is worked over 20 rows.