Learn to make the fun, classic, and Halloween inspired Cat Moon Rising Blanket from a free crochet graph by Divine Debris. Perfect crochet, knitting, Tunisian crochet, cross stitch, and any other fiber art.

You know the best thing about September? It’s basically Halloween eve the whole month! Well, for me it is. It’s time to start adding Fall/ Halloween decor to the house and creating that “vibe” that I’ll keep around until November (or all year, if we’re being honest). And this year, I’ve got the best blanket for this time of year – the brand new C2C Cat Moon Rising Blanket crochet pattern.

So, keeping with a design element I’ve used quite a few time this year (which I didn’t expect but I’m quite happy about), this week’s new pattern is all about a cat. Apparently I’ve subconsciously been wanting to make lots of cat designs (four as of this post which you can see here). I’ve always been a cat person anyway, so it makes sense. But this week’s new pattern also combines classic Halloween vibes.

I love classic Halloween decorations. I love when they’re cute but still a little creepy. And while I’m a huge fan of how purple and green are now Halloween colors, I used brown, orange, and yellow for this blanket to really bring that classic look. Creepy tree branches and a cat with bright yellow eyes 😀 I hope you can see the style I’m going for here and you dig it as much as I do.

Using Stitch Fiddle I designed this blanket to be worked on the bias, meaning diagonally, as is traditional with Corner to Corner. If you’ve never tried this technique, I totally recommend it. When I learned a few years ago, I used Meghan Makes Do’s tutorial and found it very helpful. Overall, it’s a great way to do a fun and textured color work and you can really get creative with colors and designs. And you can create the Falloween blanket of your dreams.

But if you don’t want to work this design on the bias, you can definitely follow the graph back and forth and make it a large wall hanging in sc or in dc as a mosaic design (I don’t know mosaic myself but it’s my goal for 2025). Or even tunisian or cross stitch or whatever you can think of to use the graph for.

Thank you so much for visiting. I hope you like this week’s pattern 🙂 I wish you a happy and exciting Halloween eve month.

Please note: I was provided the yarn for this pattern by Lion Brand Yarn for the purposes of designing a kit and used it for the Cat Moon Rising Blanket crochet pattern, with compensation. I wasn’t provided the yarn with the expectations of positive or negative reviews but been using Pound of Love Yarn for as long as I’ve been crocheting, it’s one of my favorite worsted with yarns for blankets. And I was commissioned to make this pattern and you can buy a kit for this pattern on Lion Brand’s Website. This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase yarn through any of the links in this post, I may be compensated. And do not make videos using my patterns.

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Where to purchase the Cat Moon Rising Blanket crochet pattern

[Image description] Cat Moon Rising Blanket close up on the cat with skeins of yarn laying on the blanket on the bottom right-hand corner.

Level

Intermediate (need to know how to read a graph and Corner to Corner)

Materials

US H (5.00 mm) crochet hook
Worsted weight/ size #4 yarn
- 4 colors
  - A (orange): 9.8 oz/ 625 yds
  - B (brown): 15.1 oz/ 962 yds
  - C (yellow): 6.7 oz/ 427 yds
  - I used Pound of Love by Lion Brand Yarn
Notions: scissors, measuring tape, yarn needle

Gauge

5 blocks x 5 rows = 4” (blocked)

Notes

As is industry standard, this pattern is just a free graph and not written instructions but you can purchase the pattern for a fee in my Ravelry shop.
Each C2C block consists of a ch 3 and of 3 double crochets.
This is a C2C pattern worked from the bottom right corner to the top left corner. It’s a rectangle so you will increase each row from 1 to 65, then rows 66 to 75 you alternate decreasing and increasing, then rows 76 to row 139 you decrease each row.
Yarn wasn’t carried through/ crocheted over the whole blanket. Utilize bobbins/ separate balls of yarn as much as you can.
The odd-numbered rows are worked down and the even-numbered rows are worked up.
The odd-numbered rows are the Right Side.
In the photos Pound of Love by Lion Brand Yarn was used: Color A is orange (Pumpkin Pie), color B is brown (Mocha), and color C is yellow (Honey Bee). Check out the kit from Lion Brand Yarn here.

Blocked Cat Moon Rising Blanket crochet pattern Finished Product Details (approx)

Height	Width
60″	52”

Notes on bobbins of color for the Cat Moon Rising Blanket crochet pattern

[Image description] Top down view of a half finished Cat Moon Rising Blanket on a hard wood floor with skeins of yarn attached to the top left of the blanket and frame of the photo.

As the photo on the above demonstrates, separate balls of yarn were used for the separate sections of color. This helps to keep the back tidy and conserves yarn. However, for the spots like the cat’s face, the yarn was carried/ crocheted over both brown and yellow as needed.

For this design I suggest creating balls of yarn in these amounts: