Green Apple Placemat Pattern by Bori Varga: Overview & Details

Crocheted placemat made of joined circles in white, grey, green and yellow yarn on a white wooden table, with a glass of lemon water and a green apple.

Project introduction

Ronds crochetés verts, crème, bleu pâle et jaune pâle disposés en fleur sur une table en bois blanc autour d'un verre d'eau citronnée, avec une pomme verte dans l'angle supérieur droit.

Crocheted placemat made of small joined circles in pale green, yellow, white and light grey, arranged in a hexagonal shape on white painted wooden boards, with a white cup on a saucer at the upper right.

Crocheted placemat made of overlapping round motifs in green, white, pale yellow and grey on a white wooden table, with a green apple at the upper left and a white cup on a saucer holding a small biscuit.

This is a pattern overview, not a full tutorial. Bori Varga’s Green Apple Placemat is a table setting project listed on Ravelry, and the pattern is available as a free Ravelry download. The design is credited to Bori Varga, with copyright lines reading © Bori Varga. Because the source page is a pattern listing rather than a step-by-step lesson, the best next move is to open the original pattern page and work from the designer’s own instructions.

You can find the Original designer’s pattern and instructions on Ravelry, where the listing also links out to the designer’s own site for more information.

Green Apple Placemat

Woman seen from behind wearing a sleeveless crochet top with a light blue to dark teal gradient and a vertical back opening, standing in front of a large hexagonal crochet mat on a pale floor.

Crocheted granny square bag with a black outline, a knotted black strap and pink, red, turquoise, yellow and cream square motifs, photographed on a pale grey surface.

Close-up of crocheted granny squares with a solid mustard yellow square in the center, surrounded by gray, cream and dark brown squares with small circular centers, photographed on a pale surface.

The designer describes making this placemat quickly as a fresh dining table decoration, deliberately without rabbits and eggs. The stated skill level is easy, and the pattern includes detailed motif color selection. Ravelry lists the design under Table Setting, then Placemat, with attributes including circle-shaped, in-the-round, phototutorial, schematic, worked-flat and written-pattern.

Sample specifics matter here because they come from one maker’s finished piece. The designer’s finished hexagonal placemat measures 30 x 30 cm, which is 11 7/8 inch x 11 7/8 inch, and used 45 g, or 1.58 oz, of Scheepjes Catona Fingering weight yarn. The stated yarn amount is 113 meter, or 123 yard. Treat those figures as the designer’s sample, not a guaranteed result for every hook and tension.

Construction is described as circle-shaped and in-the-round, with both worked-flat and written-pattern attributes, plus a phototutorial and a schematic. That combination means you can expect visual guidance alongside written directions in the original. This overview does not reproduce the row-by-row pattern, so follow the designer’s sequence exactly as published rather than improvising from the description here.

A complete checklist of the supplies the source lists:

Scheepjes Catona yarn, listed as 100% cotton, washable at 40, mercerized, fingering weight
Gauge noted as 26 stitches and 36 rows to 10 cm on 2,5 mm needles
Skein size listed as 25 g, or 0.88 oz, and 62,5 meter, or 68 yard, equal to 1 skein
A crochet hook
An embroidery needle

The yarn page for Catona lists it as fingering, 100% cotton, at 138 yards / 50 grams. Ravelry shows 6 projects in 24 queues, an overall rating of 4.7 from 3 votes, a clarity rating of 5.0 from 3 votes, and an average difficulty from 3 ratings. First published April 2018, the page was last updated July 27, 2019.

If you enjoy apple-themed crochet, two related overviews on this site are Crochet Apple: Pattern Overview and Crochet Apple Pattern and Keychain: Pattern Overview.