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Welcoming Blanket 10: Joining, Borders, & Finishing
Crochet Pattern by Underground Crafter
This is the final part of the Welcoming Blanket, a mystery crochet along for a 40″ x 40″ throw blanket made up of nine 12” floral granny square patterns with borders.
Finished Size
- 40” (101.5 cm) square.
Materials for the Welcoming Blanket
- Caron One Pound (available at Mary Maxim | Amazon) yarn (100% acrylic, 16 oz/454 g/812 yd/742 m) – 1 skein each in 02005 Sun Yellow (CA), 10517 Rose (CB), and 10620 Grass Green (CC), or approximately 812 yd/742 m in each of 3 medium weight yarns.
- Joining and adding borders uses approximately 80 yd (73 m) in CA, 175 yd (160 m) in CB, and 100 yd (91.5 m) in CC in any medium weight yarn.
- Clover Amour (available at WeCrochet | Amazon) US Size J-10/6 mm crochet hook, or size needed to obtain gauge.
- Yarn needle.
Gauge
- Exact gauge is not critical for this project. For best results, use same yarn and hook as for your Welcoming Blanket squares.
Abbreviations Used in This Pattern
- BL – back loop only – Fiber Flux has a helpful video tutorial demonstrating how to identify the back loop here.
- CA – Color A
- CB – Color B
- CC – Color C
- ch – chain
- dc – double crochet
- FL – front loop only – A helpful video tutorial demonstrating how to identify the front loop is available below.
- If you can’t see the video above demonstrating how to identify the front loop, click HERE to watch it on YouTube.
- FPsc – front post single crochet – Insert hook from front around back to front of st in previous round, yo and draw up a loop, yo and draw through 2 loops. A helpful video tutorial for this stitch is available below.
- If you can’t see the video tutorial for the FPsc above, click HERE to watch it on YouTube.
- hdc – half double crochet
- hdc2tog – half double crochet 2 stitches together (decrease) – [Yo, insert hook in next st, yo and draw up a loop] twice, yo and draw through all 5 loops on hook. A helpful video tutorial demonstrating the hdc2tog is available below.
- If you can’t see the video tutorial for the hdc2tog above, click HERE to watch it on YouTube.
- h-hdc – herringbone half double crochet – Yo, insert hook into next st, [yo and draw up a loop] twice, yo and draw through all 3 loops on hook. A helpful video tutorial demonstrating the h-hdc stitch is available below.
- If you can’t see the video tutorial for the h-hdc stitch, click HERE to watch it on YouTube.
- rep – repeat
- Rnd(s) – Round(s)
- RS – right (front) side
- sc – single crochet
- sl st – slip stitch
- sp – space
- st(s) – stitch(es)
- tr – treble crochet
- WS – wrong (back) side
- yo – yarn over
- * Repeat instructions after asterisks as indicated.
- [] Repeat instructions between brackets as indicated.
- () Work stitches between parentheses into same stitch or space.
Pattern Notes
- Ch 1 at start and sl st at end of Rounds DO NOT count as stitches.
- There are many ways to crochet into chain spaces. I used the first method shown in the video below for this pattern.
- If you can’t see the video above demonstrating how to crochet into chain spaces, click HERE to watch it on YouTube.
Pattern Instructions
Join Squares
- Position squares in sets of 3 squares for each row. My rows were arranged as follows so that the colors of the final rounds alternated:
- Row 1: Julia (Square 7) – Constance (Square 1) – Sarabeth (Square 5)
- Row 2: Ilona (Square 3) – Clara (Square 9) – Bernadette (Square 4).
- Row 3: Emilia (Square 6) – Linda (Square 2) – Pilar (Square 8).
- Join Each Row: Positioning two squares with RS together and working on the WS through both layers, join with a slip stitch seam (see video below) as follows: join CA with sl st to any corner ch-2 sp, sl st in next 37 sts, sl st in next ch-2 sp. Fasten off. Rep with third square of Row. Rep until you have 3 rows of 3 squares each.
- If you can’t see the video above demonstrating how to join with a slip stitch seam, click HERE to watch in on YouTube.
- Join Rows: Positioning two Rows with RS together and working on the WS through both layers, join with a slip stitch seam as follows: Join CA with sl st to any corner ch-2 sp, [sl st in next 37 sts, sl st in next 2 ch-2 sp] twice, sl st in next 37 sts, sl st in corner ch-2 sp. Fasten off. Rep with next Row until you have one blanket with 9 squares in 3 rows of 3 squares each.
Borders
- Border Rnd 1: (RS) Join CC in any corner ch-2 sp, ch 1, sc in same sp, [*sc in next 37 sts,** hdc in next ch-2 sp, hdc2tog in same and next ch-2 sp, hdc in second ch-2 sp] twice, rep from * to ** once,*** (sc, ch 2, sc) in corner ch-2 sp; rep from * around, ending last rep at ***, sc in first ch-2 sp, ch 2, join with sl st to first sc. Fasten off CC. (119 sts/side + 4 ch-2 sp)
- Border Rnd 2: Join CB in any corner ch-2 sp on WS, ch 1, dc in same st, *[trFL in next st, scFL in next st] across to last st, trFL in next st,** (dc, ch 2, dc) in corner ch-2 sp; rep from * around, ending last rep at **, dc in first ch-2 sp, ch 1, join with sc (counts as second ch of ch-2 sp) to first dc. (121 sts/side + 4 ch-2 sp)
- Border Rnd 3: Turn to RS, ch 1, sc in same sp, *sc in next dc, [FPsc around next tr, sc in next sc] across to last 2 sts, FPsc around next tr, sc in next dc,** (sc, ch 2, sc) in corner ch-2 sp; rep from * around, ending last rep at **, sc in first ch-2 sp, ch 2, join with sl st to first sc. (123 sts/side + 4 ch-2 sp)
- Border Rnd 4: (RS) Join CA with sl st to any corner ch-2 sp, ch 1, 2 dc in same sp, *dc in next st, [ch 1, skip 1 st, dc in next st] across,** (2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc) in corner ch-2 sp; rep from * around, ending last rep at **, 2 dc in first ch-2 sp, ch 2, join with sl st to first dc, fasten off CA. (127 sts/side + 4 ch-2 sp)
- Border Rnd 5: (RS) Join CC with sl st to any corner ch-2 sp, ch 1, sc in same sp, *scBL in next 3 sts, [dc in skipped st on Rnd 3, scBL in next st] across to last 2 sts, scBL in next 2 sts,** (sc, ch 2, sc) in corner ch-2 sp; rep from * around, ending last rep at **, sc in first ch-2 sp, ch 2, join with sl st to first sc, fasten off CC. (129 sts/side + 4 ch-2 sp)
- Border Rnd 6: (RS) Join CB with sl st to the st after any corner ch-2 sp, ch 1, starting in same st [h-hdcBL in each st across to ch-2 sp, (h-hdc, ch 3, h-hdc) in corner ch-2 sp] around, join with sl st to first h-hdc. (131 sts/side + 4 ch-3 sp)
- If blanket is smaller than 40” (101.5 cm) square, continue repeating Border Rnds as follows:
- Ch 1, starting in same st [h-hdcBL in each st across to ch-3 sp, (h-hdc, ch 3, h-hdc) in corner ch-2 sp] 4 times, h-hdcBL in each unworked st on first side, join with sl st to first h-hdc.
- Fasten off CB.
Finishing
- With yarn needle, weave in yarn tails on WS of blanket.