Polka Dot Blanket – Free Crochet Pattern

This pattern was one of those ‘oh, I love this speckled yarn. What can I make with it’ moments. I bought the yarn and had absolutely no idea what I was going to do with it. I got home and looked through my yarn stash to see what colors would all go with it and it hit me, I wanted to make a blanket with bright colored polka dots all over it. So, introducing my Polka Dot Blanket!

I couldn’t be any happier with how the finished blanket turned out! It’s absolutely perfect!

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I used the Dot Border Stitch for this blanket and it fits absolutely perfect! I have a more detailed post on that stitch along with a video tutorial HERE

Pattern

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Things you will need:

• I Love This Yarn (4 skeins in Fruit Salad. 1 skein each of Hot Rose, Turquoise, Yellow)
• 5.00mm / H Hook
• Yarn Needle
• Scissors

Abbreviation:

• ch = chain
• sc = single crochet
• dc5tog = double crochet 5 stitches together
• t = turn
• st = stitch (es)
• Sl st = slip stitch

dc5tog –

Yarn Over (YO), insert hook, YO, pull back through, YO, pull through two loops, *YO, insert hook into SAME space as before, YO, pull back through, YO pull through 2 loops. Repeat from * 3 more times. YO and pull through all 6 loops.

Notes –

• Begin working single crochet in the 2nd chain from your hook
• You should have 120 stitches at the end of every row
• MC = main color which is fruit salad
• CC = Contrast color Which will alternate between turquoise, yellow & hot rose
• Finished blanket measures approx. 33” x 36”

Go!

With MC, ch 121 st

Row 1 – 8: (MC) sc 120

Row 9: (MC) sc 10, (CC) sc 4, * (MC) sc 12, (CC) sc 4* repeat * to * 5 more times, (MC) sc 10

Row 10: (MC) sc 9, (CC) sc 6, * (MC) sc 10, (CC) sc 6 * repeat * to * 5 more times, (MC) sc 9

Row 11 – 14: * (MC) sc 8, (CC) sc 8 * repeat * to * 6 more times, (MC) sc 8

Row 15: (MC) sc 9, (CC) sc 6, * (MC) sc 10, (CC) sc 6 * repeat * to * 5 more times, (MC) sc 9

Row 16: (MC) sc 10, (CC) sc 4, * (MC) sc 12, (CC) sc 4* repeat * to * 5 more times, (MC) sc 10

Repeat rows 1 – 16, 6 more times alternating the contrast color every repeat.  I done the following order –

• Turquoise
• Hot Rose
• Yellow
• Turquoise
• Hot Rose 
• Yellow
• Turquoise

You could easily keep repeating and make a bigger blanket.

Border –

With MC evenly sl st around all of the edges of the blanket, placing 2 sc in each corner, sl st into 1st st when you reach back to where you started.

With hot rose, sl st anywhere around the edge of the blanket.  

* Ch 3, in the first ch of those ch 3’s work a dc5tog, sl st into 5 st * repeat * to * all the way around the border of the blanket.  Sl st when you reach the beginning.  

Cut your yarn. Weave in all ends.

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