Since it is officially fall now, I thought I’d reshare a little pumpkin spice today! This is our classic Country Blue Stripes Baby Blanket. It’s that pop of pumpkin that I absolutely love. 

Enjoy the reshare from the Fall of 2019. 

THESE COLORS! I am so in love. I don’t think my pictures even do this blanket justice. I paired country blue, light country blue with pumpkin from Caron Simply Soft for this latest baby boy-themed blanket and I really, really, like how it turned out. 

Caron Simply Soft is one of my favorite affordable acrylics to use because of its rich vibrant colors, and because it has less “bounce” than traditional acrylic. 

Some say that because of the lack of bounce, the yarn is more splitty. I compensate for that by using a Susan Bates hook. A Susan Bates hook is a sharper more inline hook so it tends to hold onto the yarn a bit better. 

So if you have had trouble in the past with Caron Simply Soft, you might give it another try with a Susan Bates hook. 

This is a flat lay of it as a work in progress. I think that gives you a truer look at the colors. I wanted to keep the pumpkin color to a minimum since it’s such a bold color and I think using it with the two colors of blue helped tone it down a bit too. 

You will need to know how to work a half double crochet cluster and a double crochet for the main part of the blanket. (I will have a video tutorial at the end of this post.) And for the border, I used herringbone half double crochet.

Let’s just get right to it. Below are the stitches and the explanations.

Materials

Caron Simply Soft (100% acrylic, 170 g/6 oz, 288 m/315 yds)

2 skeins White, 1 skein each Pumpkin, Light Country Blue, Country Blue

Size H/5.00mm hook, tapestry needle, scissors

Size

Finished size 34 in x 36 in

Stitches

Half Double Crochet 2 Together (HDC2tog): Yarn over (YO) and insert your hook into the indicated stitch, YO and pull a loop back through. YO and insert your hook into the next stitch, YO and pull a loop back through. YO and pull through all 5 loops on your hook. 

Double Crochet (DC): YO, insert your hook, YO and pull up a loop, YO and pull through first two loops on hook, YO and pull through remaining two loops on hook. 

Herringbone Half Double Crochet (HHDC): YO, insert your hook, YO, pull up a loop and continue pulling through the first loop on the hook. YO and pull through final two loops on the hook. 

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

Pattern

Chain 115. (You may use any odd number if you want to make your own size.)

ROW 1: With white, work 1 HDC2tog cluster across the 4th and 5th chain from the hook. (Yarn over, insert hook in 4th chain from the hook, yarn over and pull a loop back through, yarn over, insert hook in 5th chain from hook, yarn over and pull a loop back through, yarn over and pull through all loops on hook.) In 5th chain, work 1 DC. 

*Work 1 HDC2tog across next 2 stitches, 1 DC in the second stitch (meaning the stitch where the last leg of the HDC2tog landed.) Repeat from * across the row. Work 1 HDC2tog across the last stitch of the row and the top of the skipped 3 starting chains. Chain 3 and turn. 

ROW 2: Work 1 HDC2tog across the first 2 stitches of the row, 1 DC in the second stitch. *Work 1 HDC2tog across next 2 stitches, 1 DC in the second stitch. Repeat from * across the row. Work 1 HDC2tog across the last stitch and the top of the turning chain. Chain 3 and turn. 

Row 3 to the end of the blanket: Repeat row 2. 

Work the color changes in this order: 

2 white, 2 pumpkin, 2 white, 2 light country blue, 4 white, 6 country blue, 3 light country blue, 2 white, 2 pumpkin, 2 white, 2 country blue, 2 white, 6 light country blue, 3 country blue, 2 white, 2 pumpkin, 2 white, 2 light country blue, 2 white, 6 country blue, 3 light country blue, 4 white, 2 country blue, 2 white, 2 pumpkin, 2 white. 

*Please note the error in the chart below it should read Country Blue not Dark Country Blue. We apologize for the confusion. 

Border

Weave in all ends. 

Round 1: With white, pull up a loop in any corner, chain 1 and SC in that space. Work 1 SC into each stitch across the top and bottom of the blanket, work 3 SC into each corner and work approximately 3 SC per 2 rows along the sides of the blanket. (Work your SC as evenly as possible on the sides of the blanket.) Slip stitch to starting SC. 

Rounds 2 and 3: Continue in the same direction and work 1 Herringbone Half Double Crochet (HHDC) into each stitch. Work 3 HHDC into each corner stitch. At the end of the 3rd round, join with a slip stitch, chain 2 and turn.

Rounds 4 and 5: Work the HHDC in each stitch. Work 3 HHDC into each corner stitch. At the end of the 5th round continue with one round of all SC. 

Round 6: Work SC into each stitch, work 3 SC into each corner. Tie off and weave in all ends when finished with the round. 

Watch below if you need a video visual tutorial: 

Thank you so much for stopping by our website. If this is your first time here, welcome to the farm! We are a mom-and-several-daughter team sharing our love of crochet. We are making baby blankets for friends, and neighbors.

We have a lot of blankets to choose from. Be sure and click around. If you look at the menu heading we have all our blankets separated into categories to help you decide. 

Happy Crocheting!

xo, Tiffany

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