This is one of those precious tadah-moments! Yay! I have not only finished a very cosy blanket, I also have written down the pattern for you. A bit hastily, I have to admit, so pleas do tell me if you find any mistakes. You will find links to the pattern in English (US) and Swedish at the bottom of this post.
This pattern came to me one morning before work. I was having breakfast and scrolling through Instagram. I saw a picture of a beautiful knitted blanket with mitred squares. I started thinking about a crochet blanket with squares made from rows, not rounds. Would it be possible to even make it continuous? Just imagine having the squares but virtually no ends to fasten. I scribbled down a schematic idea of a pattern and sat down to test it after work. Well, the idea worked!
This blanket consists of squares made of dc rows. It is made diagonally, starting in one corner and ending in the opposite corner. If you felt your yarn together or use Russian join to add the next ball (or if you have a huge ball of yarn...) you will actually end up with only two ends to fasten! Isn't that glorius? Actually, if you are okay with crocheting over your ends and you make the border, you could end up with only one end!
I thought that this pattern would be enhanced if I used self striping yarn, that would change colour often enough to make each square somewhat stripey. So I went yarn hunting, and ended up with Incawool from Hjertegarn. I have used this yarn before and I like it a lot. It's an aran wool yarn with 160 m on 100 g and it's available in both print and single colour. I used both since I didn't want the border in more than one colour. It turned out the stop didn't have enough balls of the print I chose, so I used my border yarn for two of the diagonals. You almost can't tell.
The blanket has a scruff look to it, since I prefer to use a large hook when I make blankets (9 mm in this case), and since there will be gaps between stitches and the squares won't always look so square. But I like that. Everything doesn't have to be so perfect or even neat. And it works well with this yarn too.
So do you have to use aran wool and 9 mm hook? No no, you really don't! You could make this blanket in any yarn. You could make it with bigger squares or smaller. I would use a bigger hook than recommended for the yarn though, since I believe a blanket should be soft and draping, not stiff and hard.
I do hope you will enjoy this pattern if you make your Ragdoll blanket. Do tell me if something is unclear or if you find mistakes. And I would love to see your blanket!
If you want to check it out on Ravelry for size and other information I might have forgotten here, t
hen here is the link!
Love, Nilla!
