Home for the Holidays! We sure have been spending a lot of time at home these days. Especially with all the stay-at-home orders. I decided to embrace this 2020 theme of “home” and work up a cozy winter blanket that is perfect the season!
It started with a Corner-to-Corner Crochet square of sweet little house/cabin in beautiful winter blue colors from the Red Heart Super Saver yarn line. I then used simple stitches to crochet a big border. You could make this blanket as large as you’d like by continueing the border pattern. Very simple! My blanket is about 40 by 40 inches.
Materials
– Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in colors Blue, Light Periwinkle, Light Blue, Cafe Latte, and White.
If you are making the blanket exactly as I did, you will only need one skein of each except the light blue (you will need 2 of that color). If you plan on making the blanket bigger I suggest buying at least 2 skeins of each color. Shop the yarn HERE on Yarnspirations.com
– Size H Crochet Hook
– House Pixel Graph. Download HERE
– Tapestry Needle
I used the C2C (corner-to-corner) technique to crochet the house square. Follow THIS VIDEO DEMONSTRATION by The Crochet Crowd for more explanation on how to crochet C2C afghans. My square is about 17 x 17 inches when finished
VERY IMPORTANT: Instead of the traditional C2C method of using DC’s and chain 3’s to make each pixel, I used HDC’s and only chained 2 (and chained 5 instead 6 on the increase stitches). I like the way the overall stitches look tighter and neater. You can absolutely use the traditional method! Keep in mind that it will take a little bit more yarn and your overall project will be larger (which isn’t a bad thing!)
You could also use SC or DC stitches to crochet this as a graphgan!
After you have finished the Corner-to-Corner House, you will then start crocheting in rounds around the square. Below is a step-by-step tutorial of each row.
NOTE: I did join and chain 1 (or 2 if it’s a DC stitch) at the end of each round. I found that it helps to make extra corner stitches on your DC rounds. So for instance if you are using the DC then your corners will be 2 DC + chain 2 + 2 DC and if you are using SC for a particular round then it will be SC + chain 2 + SC in the corners.
Border Round 1:
SC in the spaces between each “pixel square”, chain 2 in between each SC. When you get to the corners make a SC + chain 2 + SC in each.
Border Round 2:
Make 2 SC in each chain 2 space all the way around. Make a SC + chain 2 + SC in each corner.
Border Round 3:
Change to brown yarn.
SC in each stitch around. Make a SC + chain 2 + SC in each corner.
Border Round 4:
Switch to dark blue yarn
DC in each stitch around. Make 2 DC + chain 2 + 2 DC in each corner.
Border Round 5:
Switch to Periwinkle color yarn
HDC in each stitch around. Make a HDC + chain 2 + HDC in each corner
Border Round 6:
Switch to white yarn
SC in each stitch around. Make a SC + chain 2 + SC in each corner.
Border Round 7:
Make bobble stitches every 10 stitches. So you will start by making a bobble (see video on how to do this) and then SC in the next 9 stitches, make a bobble in next, and repeat. Do not make bobbles in the corners. Make a SC + chain 2 + SC in each of the corner stitches. It’s ok if the bobbles aren’t exactly 9 stitches apart.
Border Round 8:
SC in each stitch around. Make a SC + chain 2 + SC in each corner.
Border Round 9:
Switch to Periwinkle color yarn
HDC in each stitch around. Make a HDC + chain 2 + HDC in each corner
Border Round 10:
Switch to dark blue yarn
DC in each stitch around. Make 2 DC + chain 2 + 2 DC in each corner.
Border Round 11:
Change to brown yarn.
SC in each stitch around. Make a SC + chain 2 + SC in each corner.
Border Round 12-16:
Switch to light blue yarn
DC in each stitch around. Make 2 DC + chain 2 + 2 DC in each corner.
After Round 16, repeat Round 3-11.
Make one last round of DC in the light blue and then add a bobble edge! I used the same technique as the bobbles in the blanket except to make them stand along along the edge you will make a SC then chain 4, Bobble in the 3rd chain from hook and slip stitch in the last chain, SC in next 9 stitches and repeat.
Not ready to make a final edge? Feel free to continue with the entire sequence for as big as you’d like to make your blanket!
Home Sweet Home!
I hope you love this cozy winter blanket! Please tag me on social media if you make it using #RepeatCrafterMe or @RepeatCrafterMe
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