Sometimes, in order for my crochet gingham blankets to actually look more like gingham, I have to combine two skeins of yarn to come up with the medium color. It’s always a challenge to find two shades of yarn of the same color and I had been searching for the perfect picnic blue. I finally found it one day in the isles of JoAnns Craft Store and decided to use it for this crochet blue gingham blanket.

I am using Bernat Blanket TINY yarn. It is a lot smaller weight than regular blanket yarn and I was attracted to that since I knew I would be combining two skeins together.

The result is a perfectly squishy and soft baby blanket. It feels like a puffy bathrobe. The only downside I found to working with this yarn was the ease in which it flowed through my fingers, it didn’t. It’s a slow yarn, I might say. I found that I was pulling more frequently to keep the tension just right. It sticks to itself if that makes any sense. I liked using a big plastic hook however, and the yarn did slide easily around it.

I used an extended half double crochet (EHDC) for this crochet blue gingham blanket to get the height of a double crochet, and the security of a chain stitch for the yarn that is being carried through.

Here is a video clip illustrating the stitch:

As with all my blanket projects, I strongly suggest you do a practice swatch if you’ve never tried this technique. And if you are a beginner and never tried this technique, maybe try different yarn for your first gingham project. Then come and do this one. I just don’t want a beginner to get frustrated with the stickiness of this yarn.

Materials

Bernat Baby Blanket Tiny (100% polyester, 100 g/3.5 oz., 288 m/316 yds)

4 skeins White, 4 skeins Dungarees

Size M/9.00mm hook, tapestry needle, scissors

Size

Finished size 42 in x 44 in

Stitches

Extended Half Double Crochet (EHDC): Yarn over (YO), insert hook, YO, pull up a loop, YO, pull through one loop, YO, pull through remaining loops. 

Single Crochet (SC): Insert your hook, YO and pull up a loop, YO, pull through two loops on hook.

Pattern

Before you start, you need to prepare the yarn. Wind two skeins of the white together, two of the blue color and then wind together one of each color. And, wind about half of the extra skein of white and blue. You use about a ball and a half of the mixed color because it runs through the entire blanket.

The pattern repeat is 10 + 2. This means you may make a chain any multiple of 10 and then add 2 to any length of blanket you like. But for this blanket:

Chain 90 plus 2 in dungaree/blue (The two is the turning chain) (But it never counts as a stitch)

Work EHDC in the third chain from the hook and in the next 9 chains. Before you finish that last stitch, pull through and change color to mixed. Work the next 10 chains with the mixed color, crocheting over the blue and bringing it along with you. It goes through the work. Just before you pull through to complete the 10th EHDC, pull up the blue to change color, and continue for the next 10 chains with blue, working over the mixed. Repeat switching every 10 chains to the end. The last ten stitches will be in blue. Chain 2 and turn.

In case you are learning and seeing this type of crochet for the first time here is another video clip showing you how to carry the yarn and how to keep it from twisting:

Work the next 4 rows in the same manner as the first row, alternating the blue and mixed color yarn. At the end of the fifth row, leave a nine-inch tail of the blue, and cut it off to be woven in later. Pull through on the last stitch with the mixed color and chain 2 and turn. Work the first ten stitches in the mixed, then pull through with the white. Alternate the mixed and white for 5 rows.

Continue alternating the blocks of color always using the mixed color in every row. You are alternating the blue and white with the mixed. Make your blanket nine blocks high. I like working with odd numbers so that the beginning and ending rows match.

Border

When you are finished with the last row of your crochet blue gingham blanket, tie off and weave in all the ends. Choose any side of the blanket and pull up a loop in blue. Work a row of SC around the entire blanket, working 3 SC into each corner and working 2 SC per EHDC on the sides. Slip Stitch to the first stitch and pull through with white. Chain 1 and turn.

Work the next three rows with white, always working 3 SC into each corner and working a slip stitch when you get back to the beginning, chain 1 and turn. Tie off and weave in the ends.

I found that this blanket did not need blocking at all. It was soft and squishy and wonderful!

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoy learning this gingham technique and get creative with your own colors! I also have patterns for pink, light pink, purple, red, grey and black and white gingham blankets!  Click on the colors or find them all here!

If you have any questions about this purple gingham crochet blanket, please see my Crochet Gingham Blanket Frequently Asked Questions post.  And when you finish your project, please share and tag me on Instagram or Facebook! I’d love to see!

Tiffany

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