Here is the explanation of this type of yarn from the Yarnspirations website: This tubular yarn with pillowy texture has wonderful stitch definition and a soft cotton feel and is available in a vibrant range of trendy shades. Made of a cotton shell with a nylon filling, Bernat Maker is your go-to yarn for your next squishy and soft home decor projects.

As it says, it is a tubular type yarn, so there is no splitting and no pilling. It really is a nice modern alternative to acrylic yarn.

Cyndi, aka Sugar Joye made this beautiful blanket, as a wedding gift for a friend. Watch her You Tube video tutorial and review of the pattern and yarn if you’d like to see more photos and examples. She just loved making this blanket!

If this blanket looks familiar to you, it is the Gold Puff Baby Blanket Hannah made several years ago with Red Heart Super Saver. I love seeing different patterns in different yarn. In the version Cyndi made with Bernat Maker, she left the border off as the maker yarn really left a nice straight edge.  

Be sure and scroll to the end of this post for the free printable pdf version of the pattern, happy crocheting! 

Materials

Bernat Maker (72% cotton, 28% nylon Ball Size: 250g / 8.8 oz, 290 meters / 317 yards) (Tap name of yarn to shop Yarnspirations.com and see all the color choices available)

5 skeins Lichen

8 mm hook, scissors, tapestry needle

Size

Finished blanket 40 in x 60 in

Gauge 4 in = 6 sts and 6 rows of pattern

Stitches

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

Puff Stitch: *Yarn over, insert your hook and pull up a loop. Repeat from * 3 more times, inserting your hook into the same space. YO and pull through all loops.

Double Crochet (DC): YO, insert your hook, YO and pull up a loop, YO, pull through 2 loops, YO, pull through remaining 2 loops. 

Pattern

Chain 120 (or any even number).

ROW 1: Starting in the 4th chain from the hook, work a SC, chain (CH) 1. Skip the next chain then work another SC, CH 1. Continue working SC, CH 1 in every other chain. You should end with one SC in the last chain. CH 2 and turn.

ROW 2: Work a SC, CH 1 into the chain one space of the row below (in the space underneath the 4th chain from the hook). Skip the next stitch, then work a SC, CH 1 in the next chain one space. Continue working SC, CH 1 into the all the chain one spaces from the row below. End with a SC that is between the last stitch and the turning chain of the row below. Chain 2 and turn.

ROWS 3 – 7: Repeat row 2 (moss stitch). 

ROW 8: Work this row in the same way you worked the previous rows, but replace each SC with a puff stitch. In other words, work a puff stitch into the chain one space of the row below (the same place where you would normally work your SC), then CH 1. Then work a puff stitch, CH 1 into the next chain one space. Continue working puff stitch, CH 1 into the all the chain one spaces from the row below, except when you reach the very last space – end with a SC that is between the last stitch and the turning chain of the row below. Chain 2 and turn.

ROW 9: Repeat row 2.

ROW 10: Repeat row 8. 

ROW 11: Repeat row 2.

ROW 12: Repeat row 8. 

ROWS 13 – 19: Repeat row 2. 

ROW 20: Repeat row 8. 

Repeat rows 1 through 20 for the remainder of the blanket. Repeat the sequence five more times, ending the blanket with 7 rows of moss stitch to match the beginning of the blanket. 

When starting a new skein of yarn, work your stitch all the way to the last step, when you have all the necessary loops on your hook, then pull through with the new strand of yarn to finish the stitch. Leave six inch tails from both skeins that you can weave into the blanket with a tapestry needle later. 

Click here or image below for free printable pdf.