I’m using my favorite yarn again because it’s sooo soft and easy to work with. I also love the color selection.
Materials used:
Bernat Forever Fleece Super bulky 6 weight yarn (or any super bulky yarn, but this is so soft!!)
Color A: White Noise 4 skeins
Color B: Cornflower 2 skeins
Color C: Matcha 2 skeins
Color D: Chamomile 2 skeins
9mm crochet hook (bigger or smaller depending on how tight or loose you like your stitches)
Darning needle
Scissors
Measuring tape
Stitches used:
Chain (ch)
Single crochet (sc)
Half Double Crochet (hdc)
Double crochet (dc)
Double crochet spike stitch (dc spike st)
Stacked single crochet (st sc): turn without a chain, sc in the first stitch, go through the left loop of the sc and make another sc. This substitutes for a dc and doesn’t leave a gap.
Ch 122 (or any multiple of 10 + 2 more chains at the end)
My blanket is 60” wide and doesn’t need a border, which is a bonus!
Each brick of 9 stitches and a chain is about 4.5” wide, so take that into account if you want to make your blanket wider or narrower.
Every section of a brick row is about 3” tall at the thickest part of the brick, including both sections of the borders (2 rows below and above the brick.)
Row 1:
Sc in the back bump of the 2nd ch from the hook and in each back bump across. (You can just go into the chain if you prefer)
Ch 1
Turn
Row 2:
Sc in the first stitch, and in each stitch across
In the last stitch, begin a sc, but drop color A before pulling through the 2 loops.
Pick up color B and pull through the 2 loops.
Ch 1
Turn
Row 3:
Sc in the first stitch,
* sc, hdc, 5 dc, hdc, sc, ch 1
Skip 1 stitch, * repeat from * to * across
The last “brick” will not have a chain after it, go right into the last 2 stitches, which will be sc’s.
Ch 1
Turn
Row 4:
Repeat row 3.
At the end of the row, drop color B, complete the last sc with color A,
Ch 1
Turn
Row 5:
Sc in the first stitch.
*sc in the next 9 stitches.
When you reach the chain space, make a double crochet spike stitch (dc spike st) in the sc from color A 3 rows below (below the 2 chain space rows)
Yarn over, insert your hook in the sc (row 1 from the pattern) pull the yarn through and up just above row 3. Yarn over, pull through 2 loops, yarn over, pull through the last 2 loops. That’s a dc spike stitch.*
Repeat from * to * across the row, ending with a sc. (the first 2 and last 2 stitches are sc’s)
Ch 1 turn.
Row 6:
Sc in the first stitch and in each stitch across, complete the last sc with Color C,
Do not chain, just turn
Row 7:
The beginning and end are partial bricks
Stacked sc in the first stitch (sc, go in left loop of sc, make another sc)
Dc in the next 2 stitches followed by
Hdc, sc, ch 1,
Skip 1 stitch
*sc, hdc, 5 dc, hdc, sc, ch 1, skip 1 stitch*
Repeat from * to * until the last 5 stitches.
(After your ch 1 skip 1, ) sc, hdc, 3 dc (partial brick as the last part of this row)
Row 8:
Repeat Row 7
Change to Color A at the end of the row by dropping Color C and completing the last dc with Color A.
Ch 1
Turn
Row 9:
Sc in the first 5 stitches,
Dc spike st into the color A row below
*Sc 9, dc spike st in the sc of color A (below 2 rows of chain spaces)
Repeat from * to * finishing with 5 sc,
Ch 1
Turn
Row 10: (The easy row!)
Sc in each stitch across, finish the last sc by dropping Color A, picking up Color B and completing the sc.
From now on, repeat rows 3-10
(You can use as many color changes as you like, I chose to use these 3 because they looked like Spring to me.)
Continue until your blanket reaches the desired length. I made 10 bricks of each color (5 per skein) and my blanket is 70” long.
For the very last row of the blanket, (second row of Color A,) I used slip stitches in the front loop only to closely match the very first row of the blanket.
Fasten off and weave in your ends!
Watch the video to see how to work your ends in as you go – no ends to weave in at the end!
I hope you enjoyed the pattern. Let me know if you made one!
