I had a welcome-to-your-new-home gift to make and I chose to design a new throw pattern using Bernat Future Hope! I love using this new to the market yarn. It is so soft and chenille-like. It’s holding the stitches in place and also not making a blanket this size too heavy. It’s a win in my book!

Bernat Future Hope is 100% recycled polyester. It is one strand of thin chenille. There is no splitting of ply’s with this yarn. Your hook will glide through it easily. I enjoyed using my Susan Bates Comfort Grip hooks to make this blanket. The little point on the end of this hook helped me to pull through all the loops of the cluster rows.

Since the yarn is somewhat thin, I tweaked the regular single crochet stitch to add an extra loop. I write it out in the Stitches section of the pattern and also demonstrate for you in the video tutorial.

The rows of texture are made with cluster stitch and single crochet. They are surrounded by a row of single crochet and chain one worked as the mesh stitch.

The border is made with half double crochet post stitches, which are just the same as double crochet post stitches, just worked as half double crochets.

If all of this sounds confusing, watch the video tutorial for quick demonstrations. It’s linked in the pattern section of this post.

Thank you all for stopping by to check out what we’ve been making! If you need more throw ideas, check out our category heading “Throws.” We have a lot more patterns for you to consider that make great gifts for weddings, graduations, or new homes!

At the very end of this post, you will find the free printable version of the pattern. We like to suggest that you read through the pattern here on the website first to see if it is something you’d like to save. You simply tap the image of the pattern, then it will take you to a different screen where you can print the pdf.

Also at the end of the post, we like to include gift ideas to accompany your blanket. We love giving our crochet away and like to include a little something else to go along. My daughters are so on top of what is trending and they put the lists together on *Amazon.

Materials

Bernat Future Hope (tap the name of the yarn to shop on Yarnspirations.com)

7 skeins Snow White

Size H 5mm hook, tapestry needle, scissors

Stitches

Single Crochet (SC): Insert hook under both loops of designated stitch, YO (yarn over) and pull loop back through, YO and pull through all loops on hook.

Special Single Crochet (sSC): Insert hook into back loop, YO pull a loop back through, insert hook under both loops of same stitch, YO pull a loop back through, YO pull through all three loops on hook.

Half Double Crochet (HDC): YO, insert hook, YO pull loop back through, YO pull through all loops on hook.

Front and Back Post Half Double Crochet (FPHDC, BPHDC): YO, insert hook from front to back and back to the front around the post of the stitch for FPHDC (popping the post forward) and YO, insert hook from back to front and front to the back around the post of the stitch for BPHDC (popping the post to the back). YO and pull a loop through, YO and pull through all loops on hook.

Cluster Stitch (CL): Insert hook under both loops, YO pull loop back through, *YO, insert hook again into same stitch. YO pull loop back through, repeat from * one more time, YO pull through all six loops on hook.

Size

60×40 inches

gauge: 4 inches = 14 sts and 13 rows taken from finished blanket

Pattern

Chain 200 or any even number to 60 inches.

ROW 1: Begin in the second chain from the hook with HDC. HDC into each chain across the row. CH 1 and turn.

ROW 2 -10: Work sSC into each stitch across the row. CH 1 and turn.

ROW 11: Work one sSC into first stitch, *CH 1, skip next st. sSC into next st. Repeat from * across the row. CH 1 and turn.

ROW 12: Work one CL into the first stitch, *SC around the ch 1 space. CL into the next st. Repeat from * across the row. CH 1 and turn.

ROW 13: Work one sSC into first CL, *CH 1, skip next sc, sSC into next CL. Repeat from * across the row. CH 1 and turn.

Repeat rows 2 through 13 nine times. Then work rows 2-10 one more time. Tie off and weave in all the ends.

Border

Round 1: Start by working HDC on the remaining three sides by pulling up a loop and chain 1 in the corner of the first row of the blanket. (The last HDC of the first row). Working up the ends of rows by placing one HDC at the end of each row. Work [HDC, CH 2, HDC] into each corner. Join with a SL ST to the first HDC of the round. CH 1 and turn.

Round 2: Work alternating FPHDC and BPHDC around HDC’s and [HDC, CH 2, HDC] around each ch 2 corner space. Join with a SL ST to the first stitch of the round. CH 1 and turn.

Round 3 and 4: Repeat round 2. Tie off and weave in all the ends.

If you need any help at all, please see the video tutorial: