Ocean Kiss Beach Blanket
Beautiful and stylish crochet blanket for your home from Crochet 24/7
Bring the beach to your home with this beautiful and stylish blanket, the latest pattern in my Ocean Kiss Collection.
Hello everyone!
Well this feels scary …. I massively fell out of love with my blog, and the weeks suddenly turned into months without me writing or publishing anything new.
The longer I left it the harder it was to restart, questioning if my patterns were worth publishing, pouring buckets of self doubt over myself. I am not sure why but I just retreated into a bubble of creativity focusing on designing and making.
Anyway, I am back – newly enthusiastic – and I have a ton of patterns to show you all over the next few weeks – I am going to kick off with a favourite stitch combination for many of you – that I called Ocean Kiss.
This pattern is for a gorgeous, squishy, blanket – it’s huge, I am 5ft 4 and you can see from one of the pictures of me below holding it up just how big it is.
The blanket is a free pattern to thank-you all for staying with me; whilst I have been so quiet!
It would be great if you can Pin it on Pinterest, and share it on Facebook for me, to help me get my audience back to where it was.
Although, I have called it the Beach Blanket you can of course make it in any colour you like, multiple colours, one colour – whatever takes your fancy.
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Ocean Kiss Beach Blanket
Difficulty Level: – Intermediate
Stitches Used: –
USA TERMS UK TERMS
CH – Chain CH – Chain
SC – Single Crochet DC – Double Crochet
HDC – Half Double Crochet HTR – Half Treble
DC – Double Crochet TRC – Treble Crochet
TRC – Treble Crochet DTR – Double Treble
Special Stitches Used : –
UK – DTRX:- (Double Treble “X” shape worked over 3 stitches)
Yarn round hook (yrh) twice, insert hook in next DC, yrh, pull loop through, yrh, pull loop through first 2 loops on hook, skip the next DC, yrh, insert hook into next DC, yrh, pull loop through, (yrh, pull loop through 2 loops on hook) 4 times, CH1, yrh, insert hook into bottom space of the X you are making, yrh, pull loop through, (yrh, pull loop though 2 loops) twice
USA – TRX:- (Treble “X” shape worked over 3 stitches)
Yarn round hook (yrh) twice, insert hook in next SC, yrh, pull loop through, yrh, pull loop through first 2 loops on hook, skip the next SC, yrh, insert hook into next SC, yrh, pull loop through, (yrh, pull loop through 2 loops on hook) 4 times, CH1, yrh, insert hook into bottom space of the X you are making, yrh, pull loop through, (yrh, pull loop though 2 loops) twice
UK – TRC Cluster:- TR3TOG:- (3 Treble Crochets worked together in the same stitch)
Yarn round hook (yrh), insert hook into the CH1 space forming the top half of your “X” , pull loop through yrh, pull through 2 loops, yrh, insert hook back into same space, yrh, pull loop through, yrh, pull through 2 loops, yrh, insert hook back into same space, yrh, pull loop through, yrh, pull through 2 loops, yrh, pull through remaining 4 loops.
USA – DC Cluster:- DC3TOG:- (3 Double Crochets worked together in the same stitch)
Yarn round hook (yrh), insert hook into the CH1 space forming the top half of your “X” , pull loop through yrh, pull through 2 loops, yrh, insert hook back into same space, yrh, pull loop through, yrh, pull through 2 loops, yrh, insert hook back into same space, yrh, pull loop through, yrh, pull through 2 loops, yrh, pull through remaining 4 loops.
Yarn Used: – Red Heart Soft 141g/5oz balls Medium 4 Weight, 100% Acrylic, 256 yards/234m per ball, machine washable.
Total Balls Used = 8 balls total yardage 2,048 feet.
Colour A – White 4600 x 4, Colour B – Lemon 4616 x 2, Colour C – Turquoise 2515 x 2
I decided against a border, and I had a small amount of white, and half a ball of both lemon and turquoise remaining. Due to the amount of ends to weave in, if you used one colour you could probably complete it with 7 balls of the same yarn.
Hook Size Used: – 9mm crochet hook (yarn recommends 5.5mm/I-9
Gauge: – 3” horizontal 3 “X” Stitches, 3.5” vertical – one repeat of Rows 2-7
Additional Note:-
The finished blanket measures 66” in length and 42” wide.
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Instructions written using USA crochet terms.
CH1 – Does not count as a stitch
CH4 – Counts as the first TRC stitch on “X” rows, meaning the very first space to place a stitch, is already “used”. And also counts as the first DC/CH1 on DC Cluster rows.
Multiple 3+2+1 for the foundation chain.
ROW 1 – A :- CH171 with Colour A, SC in 2nd CH from hook, SC in each CH to end of row. (170 SC), turn
ROW 2 – A :- CH1, HDC in each SC, repeat across, (170 HDC), turn
ROW 3 – A :- CH1, HDC in each HDC, repeat across, (170 HDC), turn
ROW 4 – A :- CH1, SC in each HDC, repeat across, (170 SC),
Cast off Colour A and join Colour B
ROW 5 – B :- CH4 (counts as a TRC), TRX across, ending with a TRC in final SC (56 TRX, 2 TRC), turn
ROW 6 – B :– CH4, *(DC Cluster (space in top half of first “X”), CH2), repeat a further 54 times, final “X” DC Cluster, CH1, DC in 4th CH, turn (56 DC Cluster, 2 DC)
Cast off Colour B and join Colour A
ROW 7 – A :- CH1, SC into previous row DC, SC in the CH1 space, *(SC through top of DC3TOG Cluster, 2 SC in CH2 space), *repeat across ending with SC through top of final cluster, SC under CH1 space (4th CH previous row), then SC in 3rd CH of previous row. (170 SC)
Check your count here, the easiest place to miss a SC is either the first 2, (the SC in the first cluster is your 3rd SC made) or the last 2 SC’s (made using the starting CH4 of the previous row).
ROW 8 – A :- CH1, HDC in each SC, repeat across, (170 HDC), turn
ROW 9 – A :- CH1, HDC in each HDC, repeat across, (170 HDC), turn
ROW 10 – A:- CH1, SC in each HDC, repeat across, (170 SC), turn
Cast off Colour A and join Colour C
ROW 11 – C:- CH4 (counts as a TRC), TRX across, ending with a TRC in final SC (56 TRX, 2 TRC), turn
ROW 12 – C:– CH4, *(DC Cluster (space in top half of first “X”), CH2), repeat a further 55 times, final “X” DC Cluster, CH1, DC in 4th CH, turn (56 DC Cluster, 2 DC)
ROW 13-71 – Repeat Rows 7-12
ROW 72-75 – Repeat Rows 7-10
Cut your yarn, leaving a tail to weave in. Pull yarn through final loop on hook and then weave in the end to hide. Go back and weave all your ends in from the colour changes.
Instructions written using UK crochet terms.
CH1 – Does not count as a stitch
CH4 – Counts as the first DTR stitch on “X” rows, meaning the very first space to place a stitch, is already “used”. And also counts as the first TRC/CH1 on TRC Cluster rows.
Multiple 3+2+1 for the foundation chain.
ROW 1- A :- CH171 with Colour A, DC in 2nd CH from hook, DC in each CH to end of row. (170 DC), turn
ROW 2 – A :- CH1, HTR in each DC, repeat across, (170 HTR), turn
ROW 3 – A :- CH1, HTR in each HTR, repeat across, (170 HTR), turn
ROW 4 – A :- CH1, DC in each HTR, repeat across, (170 DC), turn
Cast off Colour A and join Colour B
ROW 5 – B :- CH4 (counts as a DTR), DTRX across, ending with a DTR in final SC (56 DTRX, 2 DTR), turn
ROW 6 – B :– CH4, *(TRC Cluster (space in top half of first “X”), CH2), repeat a further 54 times, final “X” TRC Cluster, CH1, TRC in 4th CH, turn (56 TRC Cluster, 2 TRC)
Cast off Colour B and join Colour A
ROW 7 – A :- CH1, DC into previous row TRC, DC in the CH1 space, *(DC through top of TR3TOG Cluster, 2 DC in CH2 space), *repeat across ending with DC through top of final cluster, DC under CH1 space (4th CH previous row), then DC in 3rd CH of previous row. (170 DC)
Check your count here, the easiest place to miss a DC is either the first 2, (the DC in the first cluster is your 3rd DC made) or the last 2 DC’s (made using the starting CH4 of the previous row).
ROW 8 – A :- CH1, HTR in each DC, repeat across, (170 HTR), turn
ROW 9 – A :- CH1, HTR in each HTR, repeat across, (170 HTR), turn
ROW 10 – A:- CH1, DC in each HTR, repeat across, (170 DC), turn
Cast off Colour A and join Colour C
ROW 11 – C:- CH4 (counts as a DTR), DTRX across, ending with a DTR in final DC (56 DTRX, 2 DTR), turn
ROW 12 – C:– CH4, *(TRC Cluster (space in top half of first “X”), CH2), repeat a further 54 times, final “X” TRC Cluster, CH1, TRC in 4th CH, turn (56 TRC Cluster, 2 TRC)
ROW 13-71 – Repeat Rows 7-12
ROW 72-75 – Repeat Rows 7-10
Cut your yarn, leaving a tail to weave in. Pull yarn through final loop on hook and then weave in the end to hide. Go back and weave all your ends in from the colour changes.
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