Crochet Blanket Pattern Instructions
Crochet Hook
I/9 or 5.5 mm hook
Yarn Weight
(4) Medium Weight/Worsted Weight and Aran (16-20 stitches to 4 inches)
Crochet Gauge
Rounds 1–3 = 4 inches (10 cm); 3 pattern repeats and 1 dc = 4 inch (10 cm). One pattern repeat consists of 3 double crochet and one chain-1 space; 6 rows = 4 inch (10 cm). Check your gauge. Use any size hook to obtain the gauge.
Finished Size
39 x 39 inches (99 x 99 cm)
Materials List
- RED HEART® Baby Hugs™ Medium: 2 balls each of 4201 Sunny A and 4001 Frosting C, and 1 ball 4562 Aloe B
- Susan Bates® Crochet Hook: 5.5mm [US I-9]
- Yarn needle
Special Stitch
Reverse sc (reverse single crochet) = Work single crochet in the opposite direction from which you would usually work (left to right if you are right-handed and right to left if you are left-handed). This stitch is also known as the crab stitch. It creates a rope-like twisted single crochet edging.
Special Technique
Join with sc = Place a slip knot on hook, insert hook in the indicated stitch, yarn over and draw up a loop, yarn over and draw through both loops on hook.
Crochet Blanket Pattern
With A, ch 4; join with slip st to first ch to form a ring.
Round 1 (right side)
Ch 2 (counts as first dc here and throughout), 2 dc in ring, *ch 3, 3 dc; repeat from * twice, 3 times in ring, ch 3; join with slip st in top of beginning ch—12 dc and 4 ch-3 spaces.
Round 2
Slip st in next 2 dc, slip st in first ch-3 space, (ch 2, 2 dc, ch 3, 3 dc) in the same space, *ch 1, (3 dc, ch 3, 3 dc) in next ch-3 space; repeat from * twice, ch 1; join with slip st in top of beginning ch—24 dc, 4 ch-1 spaces, and 4 ch-3 spaces.
Round 3
Slip st in next 2 dc, slip st in first ch-3 space, (ch 2, 2 dc, ch 3, 3 dc) in the same space, *ch 1, 3 dc in next ch-1 space, ch 1, (3 dc, ch 3, 3 dc) in next ch-3 space; repeat from * twice, ch 1, 3 dc in the last ch-1 space, ch 1; join with slip st in top of beginning ch—36 dc, 8 ch-1 spaces, and 4 ch-3 spaces.
Round 4
Slip st in next 2 dc, slip st in first ch-3 space, (ch 2, 2 dc, ch 3, 3 dc) in the same space, *(ch 1, 3 dc) in each ch-1 space across to the next ch-3 space, ch 1, (3 dc, ch 3, 3 dc) in next ch-3 space; repeat from * twice, (ch 1, 3 dc) in each ch-1 space to the beginning ch, ch 1; join with slip st in top of beginning ch—48 dc, 12 ch-1 spaces, and 4 ch-3 spaces. Fasten off.
Round 5
With the right side facing, join B with slip st in any ch-3 space, (ch 2, 2 dc, ch 3, 3 dc) in the same space, *(ch 1, 3 dc) in each ch-1 space across to the next corner ch-3 space, ch 1, (3 dc, ch 3, 3 dc) in next ch-3 space; repeat from * twice, (ch 1, 3 dc) in each ch-1 space to the beginning ch, ch 1; join with slip st in top of beginning ch—60 dc, 16 ch-1 spaces, and 4 ch-3 spaces. Fasten off B.
Round 6
With C, repeat Round 5. Do not fasten off.
Rounds 7–9
Repeat Round 4. Fasten off at the end of Round 9.
Round 10
Repeat Round 5.
Rounds 11–14
With A, repeat Rounds 6–9.
Round 15
Repeat Round 5.
Rounds 16–25
Repeat Rounds 6–15.
Rounds 26–30
Repeat Rounds 6–10.
Round 31
With the right side facing, join C with sc in the first dc after any ch-3 space, sc in each st and ch around working 3 sc in the center ch of each ch-3; join with slip st in first sc—3-sc group at each corner.
Rounds 32–34
Ch 1, sc in each sc around working 3 sc in center st of each 3-sc group; join with slip st in first sc. Fasten off.
Round 35
With the right side facing, join B with sc in 3rd sc of any 3-sc group, *ch 1, skip next sc, reverse sc in next sc; repeat from * around; ch 1, skip the last sc; join with slip st in the first sc. Fasten off.
Finishing
Weave in ends.
Abbreviations
- A, B, C - Color A, Color B, Color C, etc.
- ch - chain(s)
- dc - double crochet
- sc - single crochet
- st(s) - stitch(es)
- () - work directions in parentheses into the same stitch
- * - repeat whatever follows the * as indicated
