The Music Lover Blanket | Free Pattern Charts Included

Hello Lovely People!

I'm excited to release the pattern for the Music Lover Blanket. I designed it for my 14-year old who has developed a love of music over the last few years and I know he'll go far with it if he wants to.

I went with a purple, black and white colour scheme but you pick any bold colour you like, black and white go with everything.

The yarn I chose was Stylecraft Special DK in Black, White, and Proper Purple, but you can use any you like. Just be aware a bigger hook would create a bigger overall blanket when finished.

I also used Rico Gold Lamé thread to surface crochet on the guitar strings.

This blanket is made with the corner-to-corner (c2c) technique. If you are already familiar with this you can skip on to the assembly details.

If not, I have a video available here to show you how to crochet corner to corner.

I also have a video if you want to learn how to change colors (as there will be a fair few!).

Let's get into it

I made the blanket using the half double crochet (hdc) stitch - half treble if you’re used to UK terms.

I find it quite difficult to write corner-to-corner instructions so please, if you haven't done corner-to-corner before I urge you to watch my video linked above to get the best idea on how to do this technique. If you already know how to C2C you can find the charts linked at the bottom of this post.

If you use a different technique to me that’s fine but just be aware the size of your blanket may vary to mine which would suit a single bed.

Take a look at the designs:

Finishing Each Square

After you’ve finished a square do one round of single crochets in black (making a sc, ch1, sc in each corner), followed by one round of double crochets (making a dc, ch2, dc in each corner). Do this to every square.

I block my squares individually at this point but you could also do it when the blanket is complete if you prefer but you may find it harder to join the squares with them unblocked.

IF you use an iron do not make contact with the lamé it will probably melt!

To Join

After all squares are blocked place the two squares you want to join, back to back (wrong sides facing). You'll then want a length of black yarn which is double the height of the square plus about 6 inches.

Start at the top and weave the yarn back and forth between the two squares using the outer loops only. When you reach the end of the first side flip it over and carry on working down the opposite side, now using the inner loops that remain. Tie off and weave in the ends when you get back to where you first began.

When you join the rows together leave the central corners and check out this video by @theknottyboss on Instagram who has a great tip for closing them!

As you're making the 9-square blanket, you will have 3 squares in a row and 3 rows, with a banner that spans the whole width at the top and bottom.

Border

To finish the blanket off I added a border around the whole thing. Beginning with a round of double crochets in black (again, dc, ch 1, dc in the corners). When you reach the join between two rows you may want to add a chain between a couple of stitches to avoid it puckering.

The second, and final, round was made with double crochets again but this time using Proper Purple. Weave in all the ends.

The Charts

Click the link to my Google Drive to find all the charts and feel free to print them off. I like to cross off each row as I go I think it makes it feel like I'm making progress!

And there it is a blanket to celebrate a love of music, a love of rock music in particular and just a really cosy one at that!

An interesting fact... You can now find me on two Instagram grids! My amigurumi work is still under the handle @made_lovingly. But my homeware and blanket work is now @made_lovingly_blankets. I recently hit 1000 followers on there so thank you again so much if you are a new follower to me.