I absolutely LOVE all things mid century! Actually let me rephrase that…I love anything that has a story or a history. It fascinates me to no end to look back over the past and examine the evolution of things like home decor style, architecture, fashion, and fiber crafts!
Take a dive with me today as I teach you how to make a mid century crochet blanket of your own!
MATERIALS NEEDED FOR THE MID CENTURY BLANKET:
app. 2400 yrds
- 2 skeins of honey
- 3 skeins of black
- 3 skeins baby blue
- 3 skeins of adobe
- 2 skeins of ivory
- ((shop this page to get the Lion Brand YARNS))
- 5.25MM hook
- Tapestry Needle
CH 137
***after the stitch pattern I will explain to you how to break up the stripes
FOUNDATION ROW: DC in the 4th CH from the hook and in each CH across. CH 2. Turn.
ROW 2: (CH counts as HDC), *FPDC around the next post, BPDC around the next post; repeat from the * across, ending with a FPDC around the 2nd to last post. HDC into the top of the CH 2 from the previous row. CH 2. Turn.
ROWS 3 – 260: repeat row 2 for all remaining rows.
For the color changes you will want to make sure you complete 4 rows for the black stripe and 60 rows for each of the colors.
The color scheme works like this:
(Bottom to the top)
- Honey
- Black stripe
- Honey
- Black stripe
- Baby blue
- Black stripe
- Adobe
- Black stripe
- Ivory
- Black stripe
- Ivory
VIDEO INSTRUCTION FOR THE MID CENTURY BLANKET:
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I have a question about the mid century blanket. Are you saying on row 2 at the end you don’t chrochet the last stitch after making the last FPDC? I wished that you would have shown that on the video because I’m a visual person.
Hi, you are a great teacher! I have been wanting to make a diagonal blanket using stripe yarn for my 3 year old great nephew. But all the how to videos move way to fast. You’re how to videos are perfect. Have you considered doing a video for the diagonal baby/toddler blanket? Also I just finished my first crochet ever and used the above pattern to make a boxer for it. It turned out so beautifully! Thank you so much ☺️