I just spent the last two weeks crocheting a Catan board as a birthday present for my friend. I’ve seen a lot of DIY Catan boards, but never a crocheted version that worked in the finer details of each resource tile.
I used this hexagon pattern from Tutsplus, doing only three rows of double crochet stitches. Then I did a cream border around each tile and handstitched each tile into the Catan island formation.
All the hills, roads, trees and other elements were crocheted freehand in basic amigurumi stitches. I have no pattern, but here’s the general gist of each element:
Forest: Pine trees are simple cones started with 4 scs into a magic circle. I varied the increases and rows to create each tree in a different size.
Pasture: Sheep were mad with 4 scs in a magic ring. I then closed the ring and added 1 sc in black to create the head. The boulders were made with one bobble stitch crocheted into a chain stitch.
Hills: Each hill was created with a varied number of chain stitches. I then single crocheted around each chain length, varying in inscreases and rows to create different shapes.
Mountains: Each mountain was started with a varied number of scs in a magic loop. I freestyled a varying number of rows and increases. For the multiple peak mountains, I’d join several peaks together. Each snowy peak is just a few scs into a magic circle sewn over the top.
Field: Each wheat field is a small grouping of bobble stitches in short rows. On some fields I included boulders (see Pasture) and decidious trees, which were created with one bobble stitch sewn on top of one sc stitch.
Desert: The oasis is just a crocheted circle in a magic loop, varying in different stitches (sc, hdc, dc) to create a blob-type shape. I then crocheted around it in green to create the surrounding foliage.
After all the hexes were crocheted together, I then framed the island with varying stitiches (2scs on edge, 2hdc, 4dc, 2tr on inside corner) and did two rows of dcs. I also crocheted a large hex for the underside and sewed it to the island, which gave the board a nice solid finish.
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