Welcome to Week 30 of the Mélange Blanket mystery crochet along with Underground Crafter! This week’s pattern is the Hopscotch Blanket Square by Green Fox Farms Designs.
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Mélange Blanket Square 30: Hopscotch Blanket Square
Our thirtieth square pattern is the Hopscotch Blanket Square by Green Fox Farms Designs. You can find Lisa online at Etsy | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Ravelry | YouTube
You can see Lisa’s version in one color below.
I used King Cole Big Value Aran (available through your local yarn shop or online at LoveCrafts or Wool Warehouse UK) for my square, along with my Denise US Size J-10/6 mm crochet hook, to keep my tension and gauge similar across squares by different designers.
For my version, I used chained 19 instead of 21 (and ended up with 18 instead of 20 stitches). I used Ocean through Row 4, Berry through Row 8, and Ocean through Row 13. At that point, my square measured approximately 5.5″ (14 cm). I used Nougat for the edging, working 20 stitches evenly on the raw edges and for the foundation row and last row, I worked two single crochet into the first and last stitch to get 20 stitches along that side as well. After this, my square was the perfect size and I spray blocked it. (If you’re new to blocking, check out Blocking Basics for Crocheters and Knitters.) Lisa uses two special stitch patterns — the extended single crochet and the crossed double crochet — in this pattern.
I have included two video tutorials you may find helpful for this pattern below. The first is for the crossed double crochet stitch.
If you can’t see the video tutorial for the crossed double crochet above, click HERE to watch it on YouTube. The second helpful tutorial is for working the single crochet around your project.
If you can’t see the video tutorial above for working the single crochet around your project, click HERE to watch it on YouTube.
Head over to Green Fox Farms Designs and get the free crochet pattern for the Hopscotch Blanket Square here. Don’t forget to share your version online using #undergroundcrafter and #melangeblanketcal as hashtags.Tag me as Underground Crafter on Facebook, or as @ucrafter on Instagram when you’re sharing project pictures, or