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Hooded Baby Blanket. String With Style: Chevron Love Car Seat Blanket. It still AMAZES me how popular my BOBBLE CAR SEAT BLANKET is!

String With Style: Chevron Love Car Seat Blanket

Since posting it, it has brought more traffic to this blog than any other pattern! Since everyone seems to love the functionality and design so much I decided to write a few more. Here is the first one, the Chevron Love Car Seat Blanket!!! {Cause, you know, who doesn't love chevrons!?} One thing that I tried to do with the Bobble Car Seat Blanket was to create a texture in the blanket with the bobbles. Just a reminder, I have looked into the fact that car seat safety should be paramount! Let's get started!!! Chevron Love Car Seat Blanket Materials I hook (5.5 mm) Worsted Weight Yarn in colors of your choice. Yarn needle Gauge 10 sc across x 12 rows high = 3 in square Abbreviations Sc – single crochet Ch – chain St – stitch BLO – back loop only Sl st – slip stitch Instructions Ch 84 Row 1: [Working in the bump of the chain.

Top of the chain Back of the chain, showing the "bumps. " [Remaining rows are worked in BLO] Row 25-28: Repeat row 2. Valentines-day-blanket-pattern.pdf. Chevron Baby Blanket Free Crochet Pattern. Chevron is fun and simple!

Chevron Baby Blanket Free Crochet Pattern

Whether you prefer wide stripes or narrow, even spacing or mismatched sizes, chevron is a perfect pattern for afghans, baby blankets, and throws. Here is an easy pattern for wide striped chevron! For my blanket I used a size H hook and 6 skeins of I Love This Yarn from Hobby Lobby. You can change hook sizes, or types of yarn for a different look and it won’t affect the chevron pattern! This pattern is worked in multiples of 22+1, so use this as a guide to change your beginning foundation chain if you want to make the entire blanket wider or narrower. Sample pictures are included after each row as a guide. Pattern With A, ch 139. Row 1 (RS): Sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each of next 9 ch (10sc total), 3 sc in next ch, *1 sc in each of next 10 ch, skip next 2 ch, 1 sc in each of next 10 ch, 3 sc in next ch; rep from * to last 11 ch, 1 sc in each of last 11 ch, turn. With A, rep Rows 2 & 3 for 3 more rows, ending with Row 2 (total of 8 rows in A).

Like this: Chunky Crochet Baby Blanket – Tutorial. I am loving the mix of yellows and grays for a gender neutral baby collection.

Chunky Crochet Baby Blanket – Tutorial

This crocheted blanket compliments the Bumble Bee mary jane shoes and burp cloths. I know I say it quite a bit but this project was super easy! Looks amazing and complicated but it’s just a single crochet afghan using 3 strands of bulky yarn together. I found the inspiration at Aesthetic Nest and there she used a beautiful combination of pink and gold yarns. There really is no right or wrong with this project. ***UPDATE*** I forgot to mention how much yarn a project like this would take. For this yellow blanket, I mixed Bernat Softee Baby Yarn with Caron Simply Soft.

Looks beautiful draped on a rocking chair or crib Like I promised, this project is super easy and I have the pictures to prove it. I grabbed my size P hook (which is one of the larger crochet hooks I found at my local hobby store). I gathered 3 different collections of yarn I had lying around. Locating the 2nd chain from the hook … Like this: