Baby Crochet Blanket Pattern With 5.5mm and Type 4 Yarn

I am head over heels in dearest with this Lazy Waves Coating.  It is thick and squishy and brilliantly simple to make.

I started working on this blanket about a year ago only so put it aside to focus on the Block a Week CAL 2014.  A couple of months ago I got a sudden urge to terminate it, and I take been working on information technology whenever I could find a few minutes in the evenings.

You accept no idea how thrilled I am to finally be able to sit nether it!

I have used Stylecraft Special Dk (2 strands at a time), but you tin use one strand of worsted weight yarn instead.  It should come out more or less the aforementioned size (depending on your tension/gauge, of course).

This Lazy Wave Coating is an crawly stash-buster.  You probably won't notice, but I have used Clematis instead of Fondant on some repeats, and Grey instead of Silvery on others. I don't think it makes a jot of difference and it allowed me to employ upwards ii lots of scraps so that I can purchase some more.

Lazy Waves Blanket Pattern

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Materials

• ii strands of double knit yarn (calorie-free worsted weight) OR ane strand of worsted weight yarn – see Colour Listing below for details on the type and amount I used
• 5.v mm Clover Amour Crochet Claw (US nine/I  Great britain 5)
• Yarn needle…sigh

Guess

Using dc stitches (US Terminology):

14 stitches and viii rows per 10 cm (iv") square

Please note:  Using 2 strands of double knit yarn instead of 1 strand of worsted weight, in that location was a departure of 2 mm at the end of four rows, which means that it doesn't matter which of the ii roads you choose to get down.

If you accept a look at the photo on the left, yous will see that the blueish swatch (2 strands of dk) is slightly larger than the grey one (one strand of ww).

Size

120 cm x 150 cm (stretches to 170…because information technology's heavy!)

Abbreviations

US Terminology Used (see this comparative chart for U.s.a./United kingdom conversion)

• Ch/chs – Chain/chains
• Dc – Double crochet
• Sc – Single crochet
• St/sts – Stitch/stitches
• Tr – Treble crochet
• * – Repeat instructions betwixt asterisks the number of times specified

Notes

You tin apply whatever yarn and hook you fancy.  You can make as many or equally few starting chains as your little heart desires.

• Starting Concatenation:  Multiples of 8 +  fourstarting chains
• Will give y'all:  Multiples of 8 +  2 stitches

Resources

• Photo tutorial for making the Lazy Waves
• No Needles Needed – tutorial for crocheting your tails of yarn away

Instructions

To Starting time

Ch 164.

Row 1

Working into the elevation loop only of each ch st:  Dc in the 3rd chain from the hook.  Dc in the next ch.  *Tr in the side by side two chs, dc in the next 2 chs, sc in the adjacent 2 chs, dc in the side by side 2 chs*.

Echo from * to * until you attain the end of the chain.  If yous take started with 164 chs, you lot will repeat the instructions 19 times, giving you xx repeats in total.  The last st of the concluding repeat should fall in the last foundation ch st.  Change colour on the last yarn-over of the terminal dc.  Ch 1 and turn. This ch st does not count as a st.

Stitch Count:  162 sts  {twoscore scs, 82 dcs, and 40 trs}

Row 2

Dc in the same st every bit the turning chain (run across this tutorial if you are unsure which stitch that is).  Dc in the next dc.  *Tr in the adjacent 2 sc'southward, dc in the adjacent 2 dc's, sc in the next ii tr's, dc in the side by side 2 dc's*.

Repeat from * to * until you reach the end of the row.  The last st of the last echo should fall in the concluding dc, not in the turning chain (which doesn't count as a stitch).  Change colour on the last yarn-over of the concluding dc.  Ch 1 and turn. This ch st does not count as a st.

Stitch Count:  162 sts  {twoscore sc, 82 dc, and 40 tr}

Row 3 to Row 119

Repeat Row 2…  Information technology's that unproblematic.

When y'all feel that your coating is long enough, bind off and piece of work away your tails of yarn.

How much yarn will I need?

My Lazy Waves Colours

I used 17 balls of Stylecraft Special DK.  I used 2 strands held together to create a thicker, larger (lazier) blanket.  I know…lazier is not a word…

Stylecraft is an awesome budget yarn that feels (and washes) manner meliorate than about acrylics.  Yous can buy the "Lucy" pack (which contains exactly 17 balls), you can apply the 17 colours I used (listed below), or yous can employ stash yarn and brand the blanket outrageously colourful and awesome!

If you adopt worsted weight, I highly recommend Deborah Norville Everyday Worsted Weight Yarn.  It is anti-pilling and feels unlike any other acrylic I have ever worked with.  Information technology is soft and sturdy with just the tiniest hint of a shine.  I used it to brand the animals for my book, Amamani Puzzle Assurance, and loved it so much that I bought a whole lot more.

Below you lot can find a list of Deborah Norville colours that all-time match the Stylecraft colours I used.  In fact, bar 2 colours that they do not stock and 2 colours that are a slightly unlike shade, the colours match perfectly.

Color List
Stylecraft Special DK Bachelor from Deramores (Ships Worldwide)	Deborah Norville Everyday Solids Available from Annie'southward (Ships Worldwide)
Double Knit/Light Worsted weight/#3	Aran/Worsted Weight#4
1 skein each	3/four skein each
Meadow	Sagebrush
Sherbet	No Substitute – choose another colour
Lipstick	Really Red
Saffron	Lemon
Aster	Cornflower
Lavender	Orchid
Clematis/Fondant	Babe Pink
Silver	Mist
Petrol	Peacock
Spring Green	Babe Greenish
Magenta	Peony
Cloud	Baby Blue
Plum	Aubergine
Shrimp	No Substitute – cull another colour
Turquoise	Azure
Aspen	Drinking glass
Pomegranate	Grenadine

I don't similar crocheting over my ends, because I piece of work them away backwards and frontward, then I accept to get the needle out fifty-fifty if I do crochet over them.  I believe (and this might just be considering I don't do information technology often enough) that it slows me down picayune with belongings the yarn in place to crochet over it.  When I made this coating, I hadn't seen Jo'south No Needles Needed tutorial, otherwise I would have used that instead.

So as you lot tin can imagine, I concluded upwards with a truck-load of tails …

… which turned into this …

… and finally this …

You lot tin, of grade, add a edge if you desire to, but this coating is specifically designed so that the edges will be neat and straight.  The ch-1 turns are non visible or bumpy and there are no gaping spaces at the showtime of each row.

I hope you accept great fun with this blueprint!

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Happy Hooking!

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