Tricolour Irish Flag free C2C crochet pattern

Irish Flag Cushion Cover back panel
 
Create an Irish flag C2C crochet pattern, and make this bright cushion cover for St Patricks Day.
This tricolour panel is designed to be the back panel of the Irish Harp cushion cover front panel. It could also be used by itself, and can be easily adapted to any other 3 colour flag by changing the colours from green white and orange, to colours of your choice. Try adapting the colours used for a flag from France, Belgium, Guinea, Italy, Ivory Coast (or use this pattern upside down) Mali, or Romania.

Information on how to work a corner to corner stitch and read a corner to corner pattern are available in this tutorial.

Materials Needed:

Rico Creative Cotton Aran (100% cotton) Size 4 Aran weight, 85m/93yds per 50g/1.75oz ball
 
Green (colour 49): 2 balls – (80g, 140m used)
White (colour 80): 2 balls – (80g, 140m used)
Orange (colour 74): 2 balls – (80g, 140m used)
 
Yarn substitutions suggestions: 
Drops Paris
Rainbow Hobbii
Scheepjes Cahlista
Cascade Yarns Nifty Cotton
 
4.5mm (US size 7) crochet hook, or size needed to match tension/gauge
 
Darning needle for weaving in ends
 
43x43cm or 16”x16” cushion pad. A cushion that is a tiny bit larger than the cover is best, to give the filled cushion some plumpness.
Metric cushion pads come in very slightly different sizes, the 43cm option recommended is just a touch bigger than the 16” option, but they should both work well.

Tension/Gauge:

8 tiles = 10cm/4” before first wash
9 tiles = 10cm/4” after washing
(The tendency to shrink slightly on a first wash has as much to do with the crochet stitch used as the type of yarn, and if possible, it is best to create an 8 x 8 tile swatch and wash it as you would the finished item. You can create any of the matching coasters from the tutorial as a swatch, if desired. The gaps between the stitches in a C2C pattern will tend to contract the first time it is washed.)

Measurements for Irish flag C2C crochet pattern:

41cm/16in²
 
Accessibility, abbreviations and terminology:

This pattern is laid out to be dyslexia friendly, avoiding unnecessary abbreviations and accessible to screen-readers, in large sized font. 

The pattern is given in both chart format, and written out line by line. All information in the chart is repeated in the line by line instructions.

It has been written for both US and UK terminology. Because it is a C2C pattern, the specific terms that are different between UK and US terms only occur in one paragraph, which is repeated so you can read the one that works best for you.
 
Pattern Chart – Irish Flag C2C crochet pattern

Pattern Starts
 
←Row 1 (right side): 1 orange [1 tile]
 
→Row 2 (wrong side): 2 orange [2 tiles]
 
←Row 3 (right side): 3 orange [3 tiles]
 
→Row 4 (wrong side): 4 orange [4 tiles]
 
←Row 5 (right side): 5 orange [5 tiles]
 
→Row 6 (wrong side): 6 orange [6 tiles]
 
←Row 7 (right side): 7 orange [7 tiles]
 
→Row 8 (wrong side): 8 orange [8 tiles]
 
←Row 9 (right side): 9 orange [9 tiles]
 
→Row 10 (wrong side): 10 orange [10 tiles]
 
←Row 11 (right side): 11 orange [11 tiles]
 
→Row 12 (wrong side): 12 orange [12 tiles]
 
←Row 13 (right side): 12 orange, 1 white [13 tiles]
 
→Row 14 (wrong side): 2 white, 12 orange [14 tiles]
 
←Row 15 (right side): 12 orange, 3 white [15 tiles]
 
→Row 16 (wrong side): 4 white, 12 orange [16 tiles]
 
←Row 17 (right side): 12 orange, 5 white [17 tiles]
 
→Row 18(wrong side): 6 white, 12 orange [18 tiles]
 
←Row 19 (right side): 12 orange, 7 white [19 tiles]
 
→Row 20 (wrong side): 8 white, 12 orange [20 tiles]
 
←Row 21 (right side): 12 orange, 9 white [21 tiles]
 
→Row 22 (wrong side): 10 white, 12 orange [22 tiles]
 
←Row 23 (right side): 12 orange, 11 white [23 tiles]
 
→Row 24 (wrong side): 12 white, 12 orange [24 tiles]
 
←Row 25 (right side):  12 orange, 12 white, 1 green [25 tiles]
 
→Row 26 (wrong side): 2 green, 12 white, 12 orange [26 tiles]
 
←Row 27 (right side): 12 orange, 12 white, 3 green [27 tiles]
 
→Row 28 (wrong side): 4 green, 12 white, 12 orange [28 tiles]
 
←Row 29 (right side): 12 orange, 12 white, 5 green [29 tiles]
 
→Row 30 (wrong side): 6 green, 12 white, 12 orange [30 tiles]
 
←Row 31 (right side): 12 orange, 12 white, 7 green [31 tiles]
 
→Row 32 (wrong side): 8 green, 12 white, 12 orange [32 tiles]
 
←Row 33 (right side): 12 orange, 12 white, 9 green [33 tiles]
 
→Row 34 (wrong side): 10 green, 12 white, 12 orange [34 tiles]
 
←Row 35 (right side): 12 orange, 12 white, 11 green [35 tiles]
 
→Row 36 (wrong side): 12 green, 12 white, 12 orange [36 tiles]
 
Corner, start decreasing at bottom
 
←Row 37 (right side): 12 orange, 12 white, 12 green [36 tiles]
 
Corner, start decreasing at top
 
→Row 38 (wrong side): 12 green, 12 white, 11 orange [35 tiles]
 
←Row 39 (right side): 10 orange, 12 white, 12 green [34 tiles]
 
→Row 40 (wrong side): 12 green, 12 white, 9 orange [33 tiles]
 
←Row 41 (right side): 8 orange, 12 white, 12 green [32 tiles]
 
→Row 42 (wrong side): 12 green, 12 white, 7 orange [31 tiles]
 
←Row 43 (right side): 6 orange, 12 white, 12 green [30 tiles]
 
→Row 44 (wrong side): 12 green, 12 white, 5 orange [29 tiles]
 
←Row 45 (right side): 4 orange, 12 white, 12 green [28 tiles]
 
→Row 46 (wrong side): 12 green, 12 white, 3 orange [27 tiles]
 
←Row 47 (right side): 2 orange, 12 white, 12 green [26 tiles]
 
→Row 48 (wrong side): 12 green, 12 white, 1 orange [25 tiles]
 
←Row 49 (right side): 12 white, 12 green [24 tiles]
 
→Row 50 (wrong side): 12 green, 11 white [23 tiles]
 
←Row 51 (right side): 10 white, 12 green [22 tiles]
 
→Row 52 (wrong side): 12 green, 9 white [21 tiles]
 
←Row 53 (right side): 8 white, 12 green [20 tiles]
 
→Row 54 (wrong side): 12 green, 7 white [19 tiles]
 
←Row 55 (right side): 6 white, 12 green [18 tiles]
 
→Row 56 (wrong side): 12 green, 5 white [17 tiles]
 
←Row 57 (right side): 4 white, 12 green [16 tiles]
 
→Row 58 (wrong side): 12 green, 3 white [15 tiles]
 
←Row 59 (right side): 2 white, 12 green [14 tiles]
 
→Row 60 (wrong side): 12 green, 1 white [13 tiles]
 
←Row 61 (right side): 12 green [12 tiles]
 
→Row 62 (wrong side): 11 green [11 tiles]
 
←Row 63 (right side): 10 green [10 tiles]
 
→Row 64 (wrong side): 9 green [9 tiles]
 
←Row 65 (right side): 8 green [8 tiles]
 
→Row 66 (wrong side): 7 green [7 tiles]
 
←Row 67 (right side): 6 green [6 tiles]
 
→Row 68 (wrong side): 5 green [5 tiles]
 
←Row 69 (right side): 4 green [4 tiles]
 
→Row 70 (wrong side): 3 green [3 tiles]
 
←Row 71 (right side): 2 green [2 tiles]
 
→Row 72 (wrong side): 1 green [1 tile]
 
 
Finishing:
 
Weave in ends. To use as the back panel of the Irish Harp cushion cover, see finishing instructions on the front panel. 
 
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Copyright. This crochet pattern is written by Ciara Doyle of The Fairythorn and may not be distributed or sold in any format other than the original, including as text, or as a video instruction. This free pattern is for non-commercial use. You may sell items made from this pattern, on condition that they are made by you, personally, on a small scale.

Acknowledgements:

This pattern has been Tech Edited by Karen Hubbard