Joining Squares Part Four - T Style Join

In this tutorial we will be joining the purple square onto the smaller ones as shown above.  A brief talk about the maths involved in this join.  The red and yellow squares both have 7 DC on there edges, but the purple one has 15.  For ages I couldn't figure this out until I realised that the seam between the red and yellow squares takes up the space of a DC on the purple square.  This just means that the central DC on the joining edge of the purple square is joined a little differently.

You should be familiar with the joining process  from the other tutorials in this series, here.  So lets begin as always, get to the first corner of the purple square, 2 DC, chain 1.

Picture 1. Start

Now lengthen the loop, remove your hook, insert the hook down through the left most chain of the red squares right hand corner in picture 1, pull the working loop through, snug the loop, make 1 chain.

Picture 2. To the left the loop connected, to the right 1 chain made.

Now we need to make a DC into the corner of the purple square, lengthen the working loop and remove the hook, insert hook through 1st DC on red square, pull the working loop through, snug loop back down, make DC into corner space of purple square.

Picture 3. To the left the loop connected, to the right the DC made.

The 2nd DC of the corner is made the same way, lengthen the working loop and remove the hook, insert hook through 2nd DC on red square, pull the working loop through, snug loop back down, make DC into corner space of purple square.

Picture 4. To the left the loop connected, to the right the DC made.

Now join and connect the next five DC's of the purple square so that you have made 7 DC's in total, this is the same as we have done in previous joins, the next stitch is the 8th DC in total.  When you have made the five DC's stop.  The 8th stitch is the extra stitch I mentioned earlier which in theory connects to the seam between the red and yellow squares.  So when you connect the loop for this stitch you connect it to the unused chains in the corners of the red and yellow squares.

So lengthen the loop and remove your hook, insert your hook down through the unused corner chain of the red square and pull the working loop through, now insert your hook through the unused corner chain of the yellow square and pull the loop through.  Now you can snug the working loop down to close the gap and make the 8th DC of the purple square.

Picture 5. To the left the loop connected, to the right the DC made.

From here you can complete the join as in earlier tutorials, there are 7 DC in total left to make.  The next 3 pictures show the corner stitches made.

For the first of the corner DC, lengthen the working loop and remove the hook, insert hook through DC on yellow square, pull the working loop through, snug loop back down, make DC into corner space of purple square.

Picture 6. To the left the loop connected, to the right the DC made.

 For the second of the corner DC, lengthen the working loop and remove the hook, insert hook through DC on yellow square, pull the working loop through, snug loop back down, make DC into corner space of purple square.
 

Picture 7. To the left the loop connected, to the right the DC made.

The last thing to do with the join is the corner chains, lengthen the working loop and remove the hook, insert hook through first corner chain on yellow square, pull the working loop through, snug loop back down, make 2 chains.

Picture 8. To the left the loop connected, to the right 2 chain made.

Now continue to make the purple square as normal.

Picture 9. The right side, the wrong side.

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