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Classy Crochet Textured Blue Blanket
Classy Crochet Textured Blue Blanket
"This classy crochet textured blanket in blue adds a subtle personality to a modern home decor. Small accents can brighten and finish off the look of areas throughout your home. This crochet blanket has lovely texture that is easy to achieve. The pattern for the blanket is alternating rows of double crochet and the double crochet v-stitch cluster. Continuing onto the border, which starts with one round of single crochet. This provides a nice foundation to work the rest of the rounds of the crochet border. Rounds two through four uses the white yarn, round 5 uses the grey, and the blue yarn frames the entire afghan as the last round of crochet. There are video tutorials for both left and right hand crocheters."
NotesThe crochet border has lots of texture just like the blanket itself. I just loved crocheting this blanket.
Crochet HookJ/10 or 6 mm hook
Yarn Weight(4) Medium Weight/Worsted Weight and Aran (16-20 stitches to 4 inches)
Crochet GaugeGauge is 13 stitches to every 4 inches. In order to make the blanket wider or narrower, the blanket it worked in multiples of 3 plus 5. This means my blanket that was started with 131 no-chain double crochet stitches is: 3 X 42 = 126 + 5 = 131.
Finished SizeThe blanket is 60 inches long and 52 inches wide measured with the crochet border.
Materials List
- White Caron One Pound 1 3/4 skeins or 1,421 yards.
- Sky Blue Caron One Pound 1 skein or 812 yards.
- Grey Heather Red Heart Super Saver 1 skein or 482 yards.
- Size J Crochet Hook 6.0 MM
- Yarn Needle to sew in the yarn ends
- Scissors
Instructions
Begin with Sky Blue-see below for color rows.
Color Rows
- Row 1-5 Sky Blue
- Rows 6-7 Grey heather
- Rows 8-10 White Repeat this color pattern 8 times.
- Add another 5 rows of the Sky Blue.
- End at Row 85 or desired size.
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Row 1: Begin with No Chain Double Crochet 131.
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Row 2: CH 3, SK 1 (DC2Tog, CH 1, DC2Tog), SK 2, [ (DC2Tog, CH 1, DC2Tog), SK 2] Repeat between the [ ] until 2 stitches remain. SK 1, DC in last ST. Turn.
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Row 3: CH 3, DC in each ST across. Turn.
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Rows 4 -- 85: Alternate between Row 2 and Row 3.
Edging
Crochet Border Colors
- Begin with white for the SC
- White Rounds 2-4
- Grey Heather Round 5
- White Round 6
- Sky Blue Round 7
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Round 1: Using the White yarn, SC in each ST. with 3 SC in each corner. Work 2 SC in each DC space on the sides. End with SL ST into 1st SC.
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Round 2-7: CH 2, SC in same ST. [SK 1 ST, HDC, SC in next ST] Repeat between [ ] around. In each corner ST work 3 HDC. End with SL ST into top CH of first CH 2 SP.
As the corner stitches are added, I eased those into the HDC, SC pattern.
