If you love to crochet easy blankets with beautiful stitch designs, give this openwork stitch pattern a try!
This design is worked in rows and includes basic crochet stitches to create a textured fabric with lots of interest.
It’s a great afghan (blanket) to try because:
- Chain, single crochet and double crochet stitches are used together to create an openwork design!
- Blankets are great gifts for baby showers and first birthdays, but this pattern is sized for Receiving, Lap, Crib, Twin, Full, Queen & King sizes!
- Use any yarn you like to make your afghan with our stitch repeat instructions (the finished sizes are up to you)!
- You’ll get to practice a lot of crochet skills: multiple stitches in rows, complex stitch and row repeats, gauge & size, finishing techniques & more!
Before you get started…
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Pattern Designed By: Salena Baca Crochet. This pattern is copyright protected; it is unlawful to distribute this pattern in any form (free, sale or trade).
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Yarn: Sprightly Acrylic Wool, worsted weight #4 yarn (236 y / 216 m per 3.5 oz / 100 g skein):
- 3 (4, 5, 10, 13, 14, 19) skeins for Blanket + 2 (2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4) for Border.
- Example shown in Crib size using the following colors: Linen x 3 + Mint x 1 + Misty Purple x 1
- Check for yarn substitutes!
Materials:
- US J/10 (6 mm) crochet hook
- Scissors
- Yarn needle
Stitch Key:
- Ch(s) = chain(s)
- Sc = single crochet
- Dc = double crochet
- Sl St = slip stitch
- St(s) = stitch(es)
Size (without border):
- Receiving: 24” x 29”
- Lap: 30” x 36”
- Crib: 36” x 45”
- Twin: 39” x 75”
- Full: 54” x 75”
- Queen: 60” x 80”
- King: 72” x 84”
Gauge:
- 16 pattern Sts = 4”
- 6 pattern rows = 4”
Notes:
- Border rounds will add additional length and width to finished blanket size.
- Beginning (turning) Ch-3 counts as first St.
- This stitch pattern can be replicated in multiples of 5 + 2
- Video: How To change color in rows (change color as desired).
Instructions: Receiving (Lap, Crib, Twin, Full, Queen, King)
Ch 97 (122, 147, 157, 217, 242, 287)
Row 1: Skip 4 Ch (first Dc + 1 skipped Ch), (Dc, Ch 3, Dc) into next Ch, [skip 4 Ch, (Dc, Ch 3, Dc) into next Ch] 18 (23, 28, 30 42, 47, 56) times, skip 1 Ch, Dc into last Ch – 97 (122, 147, 157, 217, 242, 287) Sts
Row 2 (Right Side): Ch 3, turn, work 4 Dc into Ch space, (Ch 1, 4 Dc) into each Ch space across, Dc into top of last St – 97 (122, 147, 157, 217, 242, 287) Sts
Row 3: Ch 4 (first Dc + Ch 1), turn, Dc into next St, (Dc, Ch 3, Dc) into each Ch-1 St across, (Dc, Ch 1, Dc) into top of last St – 96 (121, 146, 156, 216, 241, 286) Sts
Row 4: Ch 3, turn, work 2 Dc into 1st Ch space, Ch 1, (4 Dc, Ch 1) into each Ch-3 space across, work 2 Dc into last Ch space, Dc into top of last St – 97 (122, 147, 157, 217, 242, 287) Sts
Row 5: Ch 3, turn, (Dc, Ch 3, Dc) into each Ch space across, Dc into top of last St – 97 (122, 147, 157, 217, 242, 287) Sts)
Repeat Rows 2-5 until 43 (51, 67, 111, 111, 123, 127) rows complete (ending on a Row 3 repeat). Fasten off.
Border
With Right Side of Blanket facing, join yarn into right side of last St in Row 1.
Round 1: Ch 3, Dc into same space, work 2 Dc into every row end across Right side. Ch 3 at corner. Continue working across last row formed: 2 Dc in 1st Ch space, 4 Dc in each Ch-3 space across, 2 Dc into last Ch space. Ch 3 at corner. Continue working across Left side: 2 Dc into every end row across. Ch 3 at corner. Continue working across Row 1: 2 Dc into 1st Ch-1 space, 4 Dc in each Ch-4 space across, 2 Dc into last Ch-space. Ch 3 (corner), Sl St to join into top of first St.
Round 2-3: Ch 3, work 1 Dc into each St around, (Dc, Ch 3, Dc) into 2nd Ch of each Ch-3 corner. Sl St into top of first St to join.
Finishing: Fasten off, sew in all ends.
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