Mile a Minute Crochet Baby Blanket Free Pattern
I finished my first Mile-A-Infinitesimal babe coating and I honey the concept. Not just is it a great way to use up yarn, it'due south a beautifully polished finished project. Because of the way its put together, yous can combine yarns of dissimilar colours, brands and makes still present a very unified projection.
I posted an "I'm finished" picture on the Facebook group, Crochet Addict. Less than 24 hours later, it had 1000 likes and repeated requests for the pattern, so I decided to blog my version of the pattern here below, rather than attempt to reply to then many people individually.
Apologies for the pictures. This is what yous get when you have pictures on a cloudy/rainy tardily afternoon with your iphone.
The pattern is beneath. Scroll down to find information technology! On your way, check out some of the crochet eye candy in the photos.
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| This is how much white yarn I had left over. Nothing makes a yarncrafter happier than using leftovers all up! |
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| One of my favourite things about this pattern are the ridges created by joining the strips together. I placed my strips backsides-together and used unmarried crochets in the back loops just to get this look. The ridges also go on the blanket prissy and square and make it very easy to fold neatly. |
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| A few of the edges look curled up in this photo. This is a hasty and slightly deceptive shot. I really should endeavor to take some ameliorate pictures. One of the all-time things near this coating was how evenly the ends turned out. Bank check out the symmetrical ends in some of the photos above. |
Pattern Instructions - My Version:
The inspiration for this pattern is bachelor through Ravelry. Search for "Mile A Minute Baby Afghan (archived)" if you would like to run across that version. The Ravelry version links to this pattern. My version is slightly different, and then I'm writing it out below.
Materials:
This blanket was made with sport-weight (#three) yarn. I used leftovers from my yarn bin so the amounts are a best approximate, but here's what I used:
- For the colourful strips: Bernat Satin Sport - 3 colours, less than ane skein each (this yarn is discontinued; a skillful substitute would exist Caron Simply Soft Lite; information technology's skeins are much bigger, so you would require significantly less)
- For the white edging: I used a combination of Bernat Satin Sport in "Aran" (discontinued) and Bernat Softee Infant in "Antique White." I used approximately i.5 skeins of the Bernat Satin Sport and 1 full skein of Softee Infant, so 2 full skeins of Softee Babe should be plenty to exercise the trick!
- Because information technology was sport-weight yarn, I chose a G hook
- Keep your yarn needle and scissors handy; this blanket works out best when you work in the ends as y'all go (i.e., as you stop each strip)
Timeline:
I consider myself to be a medium-speed crocheter. At my humble step, each strip took one hour to complete, including working in the ends. Time to join the strips and add the border was a flake actress.
To Crochet A Strip:
You'll use one of your colour choices make the inside of the strip get-go. So you'll add a white edge effectually it.
Foundation: Ch 7. Bring together with sl in 1st ch to make a loop. (Note: A magic ring will not work for this pattern. Stick with the ch vii choice!)
Row 1: Ch iii, 2 dc in foundation loop. Ch 3. iii dc in foundation loop.
Rows ii-49*: Ch three, plough. 3 dc in ch 3 infinite from previous row. Ch 3. three more dc in space from previous row. 1 dc in top of ch 3 chain from the row below.
* = make the strip however long you'd like. I constitute fifty worked well for sport-weight yarn and a infant blanket. Different blanket and yarn sizes might piece of work better with more than or less rows. Just brand sure all your strips are the same.
Row 50: Ch three, turn. three dc in ch 3 infinite from previous row.Ch v.iii more dc in infinite from previous row. 1 dc in peak of ch 3 chain from the row below. Fasten off your yarn.
Now for the strip edge:
Note: There is not actually a "right side" or "wrong side" to the colour strip, since you've been crocheting back and forth, back and forth.
Join the border yarn with a slip stitch in whatsoever of the spaces along the side of the strip created by either the ch iii or the alone dc. Ch 3. 2 boosted dc in this space. Work 3 dc in each of the spaces created by the ch 3 or lone dc'south along the side of the strip.
When you lot get to the loop at either cease, work 12 tc into the loop, and so go on up the other side with 3 dc in each space. Join your final dc to the meridian of the starting ch3 and spike off.
Now is the time to work in your ends. Trust me, it's easier to do it now than when the blanket is all joined together!
Voila! I strip complete!
It's your choice as to whether you lot'd similar to stockpile all of your strips and join them together at the end, or join them as you lot get. It makes no departure either way.
Hold 2 finished strips with the backsides together. (Expect at the white edge to decide which is the front and which is the back.) At this indicate the strips besides take a top and a bottom, thanks to the v-shape created by the colourful middle of each strip. Brand certain the Vs are pointing the same way before you start joining!
(Here is where I may need to add pictures.)
Using your border colour, and starting in the back loops of the 10th tc on the biconvex ends of the strip, join the ii strips together with a sl. Crocheting in the back loops simply, piece of work your mode downwardly the strip, beginning with the 11th tc, then the 12th tc, and so each of the dcs, using sc to bring together the strips together. Fasten off one time you reach the 3rd tc of the arch at the other end of the strip. Work in your ends.
Finishing:
To business firm up the edges of the blanket, complete a round of sc around the entire coating. I used 1 sc in each dc around. In club to go along the biconvex/scalloped edges curvy, I stitched 2sc into most of the tc stitches on the ends of the blanket. (I'll post a diagram later to show what I mean.)
If you take whatsoever questions about the instructions, please leave a comment below and I'll practise my best to clear it upwards for you! Enjoy!
Mile a Minute Crochet Baby Blanket Free Pattern
Source: http://whowantstobemarthawhenicanbeme.blogspot.com/2014/09/my-version-of-mile-minute-baby-afghan.html