BlanketNo1 -tutorial

Ta-dah! Here it is! My design, my BlanketNo1 with tutorial especially for YOU!

It is big enough but gets bigger because of its structure! I love it because it is elastic and you really can wrap yourself in it very tight but soft.

I used 500g of Novita's teddy yarn. It has 45% wool, 30% polyamide and 25% acryl. 100g means approximately 110m of yarn. If you can't get exactly this yarn pick one with similar look. Most important is to pick up the yarn with similar ability (100g = 110m) to make it match.

The idea of the start.

 The idea of the end.

BUT before starting it is important to sit down and think. How big you want it to be? (Mine is approximately 160cm wide and shorther to its length.) 

You start with chain stitches. The amount of them must be divided by 4 + one extra chain stitch for the turn up. Always add one extra chain stitch at the turn ups -as you can see from the charts. 

This starting line of chain stitches will form out the first row of the banket. After it you need to make two rows with single stitches before starting the chain stitch lace.

This is the first single stitch row. 

It is a bit tricky but you'll be doing just fine. 

The pictures below show how to make a single stitch.

Here's the reason why the amount of the chain stitches must be divided by 4.

After the second single stitch row you start to crochet the lace. You crochet 4 chain stitches and fasten them to every 4th single stitch by single stitch. Then again 4 chain stitch, fasten to the 4th single stitch by single stitch and so on until you are at the end of the row.

If it is not matching at the end (not anymore divided by 4) don't panic. You don't need to demolish it with tears. Just before you are at the end count the remaining stitches and divide it all by them. If there's 1-3 different sizes of lace holes with the difference 1 less or more chain stitch none notices it later. Except you and you won't tell.

When you have make the first lace row you start to fasten this 4 chain stitch line to the arch by single stitch. On the begin of the tutorial video you can see how I make this fastening. I make it in free style without attacing it to one single chain stitch. I make it so because it forgives more. In this way the lace has more space to move around and be elastic if an accident happens and it gets stuck to a door handle for example.

Remember to add one extra chain stitch at the turn ups. It gives more room for the edge.

This is a free style chart which size you decide. Especially if you have limited amount of yarn and it is not possible buy it more later the next thing is very important. When you end your 1st ball mark it up. You need to know for how long it lasts. At the end part when you start the last ball mark it again. The end of the blanket with single stitches takes a bit more yarn than the start of the blanket. It is so because on the begin you made 1 row with chain stitches and 2 rows with single stitches. At the end there is 3 rows with single stitches: which demand more yarn. So, if the ball was enough for the start and 11½ lace rows; do the end with 11 lace rows + the sigle stitch rows. But remember your own consideration. Only you know the size of your blanket.

In the middle of the tutorial video I show how to crochet the 1st single stitch row at the end to finish the blanket. I fasten them again free styled. Partly because it is easier. And at the end of the video you can see the last 2nd and 3rd single stitch rows are attached in the normal way again.