Infant’s Rose Bud Blanket

Size 32×40 inches

For details see First Stitches, pages 10–11 and Cross Stitch, page 17.

MATERIALS

SUNLIGHT four-fold Germantown

14 skeins white

2 skeins pink

1 skein green

1 Amber Crochet Hook, No. 4

INSTRUCTIONS

This pretty blanket is crocheted with white yarn. The little rose buds in pink and green are worked at the same time as the background and the scallop all around is finished off with a pink edge.

Make a chain a little over 36 inches in length.

1st row: Make the single crochet for the length of 36 inches, then make 1 chain, turn.

Always make 1 chain and turn at end of every row.

2nd row: Repeat the single crochet, taking up in double stitch on preceding row.

3rd row: Same as 2nd row.

4th row: Make 12 single crochet. * Start with the green yarn and make a chain of 7 stitches (use the white and green together in the first stitch of the chain). Make 1 single crochet in the next stitch on preceding row. Take the white yarn along and work over it. Repeat a chain of 7 stitches and 1 single crochet twice in same place as preceding stitch. Use the white yarn, when pulling through the loops of the last single crochet, then break off the green yarn. Make 16 single crochet, starting in next stitch on preceding row and repeat from * to end of row.

These green loops will make the leaves for the flowers. The yarn ends are to be fastened afterwards.

5th row: Repeat the single crochet, with exception of making 1 chain instead of a single crochet in center of every group of the green loops.

6th row: Make 10 single crochet. * Turn the green loops down toward you, put the hook through first green loop and make 1 single crochet over it, taking up in next stitch on preceding row. Make 3 single crochet, 2nd one through space in back of the green loops. Make 1 single crochet over the 3rd green loop (same as 1st green loop), then make 12 single crochet and repeat from * to end of row.

7th row: Plain, or 1 single crochet in every stitch on preceding row.

8th row: Make 12 single crochet. * Start with the pink yarn and use it with the white, when pulling through the loops of the last single crochet. Make 4 double crochet through the 2nd green loop, taking up in next stitch on preceding row. Remove the hook and put it through top of first double crochet and through loop from last double crochet, then pull through with the white yarn. Break off the pink yarn. Make 16 single crochet, starting in first stitch from the bud and repeat from * to end of row.

Make 7 rows plain.

Start the flowers: 1st row: Make 4 single crochet, then begin with the green same as before.

Start the rows of the flowers with 12 and 4 single crochet, alternately.

91Make 13 rows of flowers for width of blanket, then crochet 4 rows plain (width 28 inches).

Border in white: 1st row: Crochet 1 row in the single crochet all around the blanket, making 1 stitch for every row on the sides except in a few places, where you skip one row.

2nd row: Make 1 double crochet on preceding row, then make another double crochet across first one, taking up in next stitch to the right. Make one cross in the next 2 stitches and repeat to end of row, making the crosses a little closer in the corners.

3rd row: Same as 2nd row with exception of making the cross in space on each side of cross on preceding row.

4th row: Make a chain of 2 stitches and 1 single crochet in every space on preceding row.

5th row: * Make 1 single crochet in a space on preceding row and another single crochet in next space. Make a shell of 9 treble crochet in 2nd space from preceding stitch, skip 1 space and repeat from * to end of row.

Last row in pink: Make a loop on the hook, then pick up 2 loops, 1 in each stitch on the scallop; put yarn over hook and pull through, make a chain of 2 stitches, and repeat, taking up 1st loop in same place as preceding stitch and the other loop in next stitch on the scallop. Take up in every stitch on the scallops and skip the single crochet.

92