Free Fitzgerald Blanket Crochet Pattern – Make Some Stripes and Texture

Hey there! I hope you’re having a great week because I hope it’s about to get better. This week I’ve got for you a brand new blanket but it’s not just any brand new blanket, it’s a c2c pattern that also brings in a puff stitch. “What?” You might be asking yourself, but it’s true. So great ready to meet this week’s new addition – the Fitzgerald Blanket crochet pattern.

Ever since I started doing C2C patterns, which was a few years go, I have enjoyed all the technique can do. It’s so fun to be able to create these bright and colorful designs that really have so much personality. But a couple months ago I asked myself “what else I can I make in C2C?” And so I decided to play around with one of my favorite things – puff stitches but in a C2C. And you know what happened? It worked! And I was overjoyed because I love how it turned out. The pop of the puff against the traditional blocks of dcs just delights me so. I think they play off each other well and create a really fun look. Don’t you?

And the best part it jut how easy it is. This type of puff is my favorite, you *yarn over, insert your hook into the st, pull up a loop,* and then you do that 4 more times until you have 11 loops on your hook (at this point your stitch looks like a hdc5tog), and then you yarn over and pull through 9 of those loops, yarn over, and pull through the final 2 loops. It’s that easy. I added an extra ch before and after the puff to give it the right spacing in the block but outside of that, if you can do a puff stitch like this in any other crochet setting, you can definitely do it here. It’s super fun and a great, great stash buster. I mean, C2C and puff stitches are yarn eaters, so you need to be ready to finish off some skeins of yarn.

Outside of the fun bobbles, I think the next thing you’ll notice about this blanket is all the colors. I designed this blanket as a stash buster (boy to I love a stash buster). When I worked at a craft store I bought myself so, so many skeins of Caron One Pound and they’re big. I mean, that’s a lot of yarn in those skeins and it’s taking me forever to get through them. So while I was standing looking at my yarn I thought “what could I make with these?” And a blanket is always a great idea – especially because I love color. The use of stash yarn helped to dictate how I did the bobbles and the stripes. Feel free to add more bobble rows or fewer to suit your stash needs. This is a fun almost blueprint of a blanket you don’t have to follow, you can kind see where the yarn takes you.

Anyway, I hope you like this pattern. It’s given me so many ideas on how to make C2C even funner. I can’t wait to see what else I can incorporate into the technique. Have a great week and thank you for checking out this pattern.
And as always, wash your hands and wear/ wash your masks and be kind to each other. We need our communities around us, ya know? <3 <3

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Where to purchase the Fitzgerald Blanket Crochet Pattern

Level

Intermediate – you need to know how to do C2C for this pattern

Materials

Gauge

• 5 blocks x 5 rows = 4.5” (blocked)

Terms/ Stitches used

• St: Stitch
• Ch: Chain
• Inc: Increase
• Dec: Decrease
• T: Traditional C2C block
• BBL: A bobble stitch worked in place of a C2C block (explained below)

Notes

• BBL: Slip st into the ch3 space of the next block, ch 4, *yarn over, insert your hook into the specified st, pull up a loop,* repeat from * to * 4 more times, yarn over, pull through 9 loops on the hook, yarn over, pull through the last 2 loops, ch 1. When you’re working back into this, work into the ch4 as you would a ch3 in a traditional C2C block.
• Each Traditional C2C block square consists of 3 double crochets and a ch-3. 
• This is a C2C pattern worked from the bottom right corner to the top left corner.
• On most of the odd rows you will use both the Bobble st and the traditional 3 dc C2C st.
• The directions will only tell you what stitch  (BBL or T) and the number tells you how many squares to make. For example, BBL4 or T6 mean 4 BBL stitches or 6 Traditional C2C stitches.
• You will need to know how to change colors in a C2C for this pattern.
• From Rows 1 – 54 you will be increasing on both sides, Rows 55 – 74 you will alternate increasing and decreasing, and from Rows 75 – 127 you will decrease on both sides.
• Yarn amounts: Color A (yellow): 1.6 oz/ 81 yds, Color B (taupe): 4.8 oz/ 244 yds, Color C (cream): 8 oz/ 406 yds, Color D (dark blue): 10.7 oz/ 543 yds, Color E (gray): 6.9 oz/ 350 yds, Color F (green): 6.3 oz/ 320 yds, Color G (dusty blue): 5 oz/ 254 yds, Color H (pink): 3.8 oz/ 193 yds, Color I (bright blue): 2.5 oz/ 127 yds, Color J (cyan): 1.2 oz/ 61 yds, and Color K (purple): .2 oz/ 10 yds.
• Caron One Pound was used for all the yarn.
• There is graph below if you’d prefer to make the blanket that way, it will show you the colors and where the bobble sts are being used.
• Buy this pattern on Ravelry here.

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Approx Finished Product Details for the Fitzgerald Blanket Crochet Pattern (blocked)

Width	Height
48″ – 49″	66″ – 67″

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Fitzgerald Blanket Crochet Pattern Graph

Key: Color A is yellow, color B is brown, color C is cream, color D is dark blue, color E is gray, color F is green, color G is light blue, color H is pink, color I is violet blue, color J is cyan, and color K is purple. The graph shows which sts are bobble with the use of the ○.

Fitzgerald Blanket Crochet Pattern Written Instructions

Increase every row until row 55.
[Inc] Row 1: A: T1
[Inc] Row 2: A: T2
[Inc] Row 3: A: T1, BBL1, T1
[Inc] Row 4: A: T4
[Inc] Row 5: A: T1, BBL3, T1
[Inc] Row 6: A: T6
[Inc] Row 7: A: T1, BBL5, T1 
[Inc] Row 8: A: T8
[Inc] Row 9: A: T1, BBL7, T1 
[Inc] Row 10: A: T10
[Inc] Row 11: A: T1, BBL9, T1
[Inc] Row 12: A: T12
[Inc] Row 13: A: T13
Drop color A, switch to color B.
[Inc] Row 14: B: T14
[Inc] Row 15: B: T15
Drop color B, switch to color A.
[Inc] Row 16: A: T16
[Inc] Row 17: A: T17
Fasten off color A, switch to color B.

[Inc] Row 18: B: T18
[Inc] Row 19: B: T1, BBL17, T1
[Inc] Row 20: B: T20
[Inc] Row 21: B: T1, BBL19, T1
[Inc] Row 22: B: T22
[Inc] Row 23: B: T1, BBL21, T1
[Inc] Row 24: B: T24
[Inc] Row 25: B: T1, BBL23, T1
[Inc] Row 26: B: T26
[Inc] Row 27: B: T1, BBL25, T1
[Inc] Row 28: B: T28
[Inc] Row 29: B: T29
Drop color B, switch to color C.
[Inc] Row 30: C: T30
[Inc] Row 31: C: T31
Drop color C, switch to color B.
[Inc] Row 32: B: T32
[Inc] Row 33: B: T33
Fasten off color B, switch to color C.
[Inc] Row 34: C: T34
[Inc] Row 35: C: T1, BBL33, T1
[Inc] Row 36: C: T36
[Inc] Row 37: C: T1, BBL35, T1
[Inc] Row 38: C: T38   
[Inc] Row 39: C: T1, BBL37, T1
[Inc] Row 40: C: T40
[Inc] Row 41: C: T1, BBL39, T1
[Inc] Row 42: C: T42
[Inc] Row 43: C: T1, BBL41, T1
[Inc] Row 44: C: T44
[Inc] Row 45: C: T45
Drop color C, switch to color D.
[Inc] Row 46: D: T46
[Inc] Row 47: D: T47
Drop color D, switch to color C.

[Inc] Row 48: C: T48
[Inc] Row 49: C: T49
Fasten off color C, switch to color D.
[Inc] Row 50: D: T50
[Inc] Row 51: D: T1, BBL49, T1
[Inc] Row 52: D: T52
[Inc] Row 53: D: T1, BBL52, T1
[Inc] Row 54: D: T54
Starting here alternate inc and dec.
[Dec] Row 55: D: T1, BBL52, T1
[Inc] Row 56: D: T54
[Dec] Row 57: D: T1, BBL52, T1
[Inc] Row 58: D: T54
[Dec] Row 59: D: T1, BBL51, T1
[Inc] Row 60: D: T54
[Dec] Row 61: D: T54
Drop color D, switch to color E.
[Inc] Row 62: E: T54
[Dec] Row 63: E: T54
Drop color E, switch to color D.
[Inc] Row 64: D: T54
[Dec] Row 65: D: T54
Fasten off color D, switch to color E.
[Inc] Row 66: E: T54
[Dec] Row 67: E: T1, BBL52, T1

[Inc] Row 68: E: T54
[Dec] Row 69: E: T1, BBL52, T1
[Inc] Row 70: E: T54
[Dec] Row 71: E: T54
Drop color E, switch to color F.
[Inc] Row 72: F: T54
[Dec] Row 73: F: T54
Drop color F, switch to color E.
[Inc] Row 74: E: T54
Decrease from here until the final row.
[Dec] Row 75: E: T53
Fasten off color E, switch to color F.
[Dec] Row 76: F: T52
[Dec] Row 77: F: T1, BBL49, T1
[Dec] Row 78: F: T50
[Dec] Row 79: F: T1, BBL47, T1
[Dec] Row 80: F: T48
[Dec] Row 81: F: T47
Drop color F, switch to color G.

[Dec] Row 82: G: T46
[Dec] Row 83: G: T45
Drop color G, switch to color F.
[Dec] Row 84: F: T44
[Dec] Row 85: F: T43
Fasten off color F, switch to color G.
[Dec] Row 86: G: T42
[Dec] Row 87: G: T1, BBL39, T1
[Dec] Row 88: G: T40
[Dec] Row 89: G: T1, BBL37, T1
[Dec] Row 90: G: T38
[Dec] Row 91: G: T37
Drop color G, switch to color H.
[Dec] Row 92: H: T36
[Dec] Row 93: H: T35
Drop color H, switch to color G.
[Dec] Row 94: G: T34
[Dec] Row 95: G: T33
Fasten off color G, switch to color H.
[Dec] Row 96: H: T32
[Dec] Row 97: H: T1, BBL29, T1
[Dec] Row 98: H: T30
[Dec] Row 99: H: T1, BBL27, T1
[Dec] Row 100: H: T28
[Dec] Row 101: H: T27
Drop color H, switch to color I.

[Dec] Row 102: I: T26
[Dec] Row 103: I: T25
Drop color I, switch to color H.
[Dec] Row 104: H: T24
[Dec] Row 105: H: T23
Fasten off color H, switch to color I.
[Dec] Row 106: I: T22
[Dec] Row 107: I: T1, BBL19, T1
[Dec] Row 108: I: T20
[Dec] Row 109: I: T1, BBL17, T1
[Dec] Row 110: I: T18
[Dec] Row 111: I: T17
Drop color I, switch to color J.
[Dec] Row 112: J: T16
[Dec] Row 113: J: T15
Drop color J, switch to color I.
[Dec] Row 114: I: T14
[Dec] Row 115: I: T13
Fasten off color I, switch to color J.
[Dec] Row 116: J: T12
[Dec] Row 117: J: T1, BBL9, T1
[Dec] Row 118: J: T10
[Dec] Row 119: J: T1: BBL7, T1
[Dec] Row 120: J: T8
[Dec] Row 121: J: T7
Drop color J, switch to color K.

[Dec] Row 122: K: T6
[Dec] Row 123: K: T5
Drop color K, switch to color J.
[Dec] Row 124: J: T4
[Dec] Row 125: J: T3
Fasten off color J, switch to color K.
[Dec] Row 126: K: T2
[Dec] Row 127: K: T1
Fasten off color K. Weave in all your ends.

And don’t forget you can buy the Fitzgerald Blanket crochet pattern on Ravelry.

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