I’m so honored to be a part of Crochetville’s National Crochet Month Blog Tour for the third year in a row!! I love Crochetville and every March in honor of National Crochet Month they have a blog tour where they feature fabulous designers, products, and more! If you’ve missed the first three days of posts, check them out here. Be sure not to miss the rest of this month’s features, either – there are lots of other free patterns and giveaways!
For my stop on the tour, I wanted to create a blanket pattern for my boys. I have designed a few baby blankets over the years, but I really wanted to make a larger blanket that my older two boys (ages 7 and 4) could use. I decided on a blanket that would be as wide as a twin but not quite as long. This blanket measures 60″ x 72″ so it’s pretty BIG! The Bernat Blanket yarn gives it such a wonderful texture and, let me tell you, this thing is super warm. I’ve been working on it while lying in bed and several times I have been hot with this in my lap – and I’m not the kind of person who gets hot easily! If you want a smaller version use a worsted weight yarn.
Here is a picture of my 4-year-old on our queen bed:
I’ve been wanting to create a c2c (corner to corner) blanket with a pixel graph ever since I first tried the c2c method for the Quick and Easy Baby Blanket. This method is great for using a pixel graph and works up quickly, especially with the large yarn. By far the best tutorial I have found for working the c2c method and a pixel graph is from The Crochet Crowd. View it here.
What You’ll Need:
Yarn: Bernat Blanket Big Ball Yarn (300g) in Dark Gray – 4 skeins + 1 150g skein (1350g total)
Bernat Blanket Big Ball Yarn (300g) in Coal – 2 skeins + 1 150g skein (750g total)
Bernat Blanket Yarn (150g) in Vintage White – 1 skein (150g total)
Bernat Blanket Brights Yarn (150g) in Race Car Red – 3 skeins (450g total – can use 1 300g skein + 1 150g skein)
*Note: Bernat makes their Blanket yarn in 2 sizes: 150g and 300g. It’s up to you which you buy and they are the same yarn.
Hook: Size M (9.0mm)
Notions: Large yarn needle
Using the C2C method, follow the chart below:
Border:
With Coal, sc one row evenly around outer edge of blanket, working sc, ch-1, sc in each corner. Fasten off.
Finishing:
Weave in ends – and there will be a lot of them! But it’s worth it. 🙂
I hope you’ve enjoyed this free blanket pattern! Here’s a closer picture of my little guy, look at that smile! He already loves this blanket!
Happy Crocheting!
Amanda
Amy Shelton
Amanda, thank you for being part of our blog tour again!
amanda
Thank you for so much for having me on the tour! ?
Missy
Thank you so much for sharing this. My 5year old is totally obsessed with race cars, and will be so excited when I show this to him! The fact that it’s red…his favorite color…will make it that much better!!
amanda
You are so welcome! My oldest son loves red, too, which is one of the reasons I chose it. 🙂
Angela Reid
For the Racing Car rug is this 8 or 12 ply yarn please? I noticed it is size 9 hook is that Aust or U.K size?
Angela
amanda
The hook is 9.0mm in diameter. I’m not sure what size that translates to in Aust or UK as in US terms it is an “M”. The yarn is extremely thick, and according to a chart I found that would be 14 ply in Australian. Hope that helps! 🙂
Angela Reid
Thank you for your reply.
Michelle
So I have been trying to find the instructions for the c2c car racing blanket and all I could get to pull up was the graphic so is their anyway to get a detailed instruction on this i would really like to continue for my grandson could you please either email me it or tell me where to go
amanda
Hi Michelle,
Check out this video showing how to crochet from a c2c chart – it’s very helpful!
Diana
Wow… so adorable blankets! I will definitely make this for my kids. Thanks for the pattern.
amanda
You are so welcome – I’m glad you like it. 🙂
VVAD
What if I don’t crochet, but really want to make this blanket? How hard would it be for a beginner to try this?
amanda
Hi! I would work up to this project if you are new to crochet. It takes a little bit of prior knowledge to work with the graph. I’m so glad you like it 🙂
Ckthomas
Looks like fun thanks for the pattern
Jean
Is the checkered rows around it a separate border or part of the c2c. I am excited to try this. I have made graphghans but never a c2c nor used bernat blanket yarn for a graph. In graphghans I use bobbins, did u use them here? thank you for sharing the graph. I have everything but the black, so ordering it this eve. This is awesome, after looking at it I may do it sc as my earlier graphghans have been. Kind of afraid of the c2c.
amanda
Hi Jean,
I included the checkered border as part of the C2C but I think if I were to do it over I would make it a border. It was a lot of changing colors when doing the C2C technique! I did not use bobbins but they would probably be pretty helpful (sometimes my yarn tangled). The Bernat Blanket yarn was amazing and turned out super thick and warm. I think it would look good in sc as well, just wouldn’t turn out as large because the squares on this one are about an inch in size for each one, but it would still be super cute! I’d love to see pictures when you are done. 🙂
SHERRI
I get the border n finish but not the pattern. How do I get it
amanda
Hi Sherri,
Since this is a C2C blanket the chart is the pattern. You just start with the corner to corner method in the bottom right hand corner and work across the rows.
Rebecca
how can I print out the graph?