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Vintage style crochet blanket

09/12/2015 by Dada Filed Under: Free crochet patterns 72 Comments

I’ve been fascinated with vintage crochet blankets, for a long time. I’ve already made one for myself, the Smitten blanket using wonderful, free byHaafner’s pattern, which I absolutely adore and use every single day! So, I played around a little with my crochet hook and some yarn, and came up with this vintage style blanket pattern. I especially love how color and texture get on together.

Dada's place vintage blanket free pattern

The blanket measures approximately 105 x 105 cm (41″ x 41″), and it’s consisted of 16 squares (4 x 4). The squares are quite big, 23 x 23 cm (9″ x 9″). The whole blanket weights 680g.

I added very simple edge – a few rows of dc, and one row of Popcorn stitches (6 dc) in the middle. I thought of adding fringe too, but gave up that idea in the end, which is strange, because, regardless of the fact that I really believe in the term: “Les is more”, I almost never stick to this rule. This time I did.

This yarn. I really, really love it, especially this shade of green. It’s very bright, soft, mat, powdery shade of green, one of my favorite colors. And it looks like something from fifties or sixties. It has that vintage touch.

The yarn is no. 464 “Cotton Gold”, from Alize (the Turkish manufacturer) – 55% cotton and 45% acrylic. It’s very soft, and I enjoyed working with it. I spent 7 skeins of 100g, and used 4 mm crochet hook.

Vintage popcorn crochet blanket free pattern

This is me reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Big magic“. Actually, just pretending to read, because I had already read the book, before. And I love it very much! I’m a big fan of Elizabet Gilbert and her work. I loved her “Eat, pray, love” (the movie not so much), and I loved her TED talk about Creative Genius even more. By the way, it has more than 2.324.000 views on YouTube. That’s quite impressive! I’m surprised that so many people are interested in creativity! That’s very nice. I’ve always been interested in creativity and I found her ideas about this topic very authentic and interesting, especially the concept that Ideas are alive. The book is clever, interesting, inspiring, and very encouraging, so if you’re interested in topic of creativity and would like to live creative life beyond fear, you should definitively check it out. If you’ve already read the book, please share your impressions in the comments, I would really like to hear your thoughts about this huge book.

I’m so glad that “Big magic” and the vintage blanket I made, are in the same picture!

Popcorn granny square blanket free pattern

I’m considering making free pattern for this vintage style blanket, so if you like it, and would like me to do so, please let me know in the comments below. Although I’ve already started on several new projects, if sufficient number of my dear readers express their wish for the free pattern, I will definitively make it, as soon as I finish all the projects I am currently working on.

The Free Vintage Style Crochet Blanket Pattern is now available here.

Now you can buy printable pdf crochet pattern and step-by-step tutorial with lots of pictures for only $3.97! Click here to get the pattern. It is available in English and German.

The Smitten Crochet Blanket

20/11/2015 by Dada Filed Under: Crochet blankets, Free crochet patterns 55 Comments

To say that I love this blanket would be an understatement! I utterly adore this blanket! Every time I finish some of my crochet projects I thank the Universe for the fact that I discovered crochet! It was a miracle, a gift which completely changed the course of my life! I’m so grateful for that!

This blanket has been on my to do list for a while, actually, as soon as I saw this post I new that I will make this blanket one day. It has been Love at first sight.For the blanket I used my trusty “Tango” yarn which is 100% cotton yarn 125m/50g (3 or Light in the USA; DK (Double Knit) or 8 ply in the UK; 8 ply in Australia). I really like how this color (light lilac no. 406) emphasizes the beauty of this pattern. I absolutely love this blanket, and I really enjoyed making it! I’s my favorite crochet project so far! Free crochet popcorn granny square pattern

I wanted to make a regular sized blanket, but not too large, because, cotton is heavy, and I didn’t want the blanket to bee too heavy, so I made a “sofa sized” blanket, as I called it. It’s the perfect size to snuggle under it on the sofa with some interesting book, or some awesome crochet project in your hands…

This handsome guy in the picture is my 3-year-old Tibetan terrier Timi. He’s my black & white shadow, and he takes me kindly for a walk to a park every single morning!

The blanket measures 115 x 165 cm (45″ x 65″), and weighs 1400g. It consists of 35 granny squares (5 x 7). I joined the squares with slip stitch, in the same way Haafner joined her squares. You can find the instructions in her post.

And now to get to the point you are waiting for since the beginning of this post, the pattern. Where can you find the pattern for this blanket? That’s good news! The pattern is free and you can find it here, on one of the most beautiful crochet blogs! I’m sure that most of you are familiar with gorgeous byHaafner blog. This is a place I visit often, and I’m always eager to see what new Haafner made with her magical hands. I really love her style, her use of colors, photography, everything actually.

The border. From the beginning, I knew that I want a simple edge. The pattern itself is so rich and full of texture, that I didn’t want to attract attention to the edge, didn’t want the edge to speak its own story. So, it plays just a supporting role here. But also very important role.
First, I made one row of dc with the same color, then I made one row of hdc with white yarn, and then added this simplest border ever. I think it looks nice.

I made this crochet chart for the edge in case you like it. As you can see it’s very simple.

ch-3, skip the next hdc, made Popcorn stitch (4dc) in the next hdc, ch-3, skip the next hdc, make sc in the next hdc. Repeat that along the blanket.

Thank you so much Haafner for this beautiful pattern and for sharing your remarkable work with us! It’s always a great pleasure to visit your beautiful place!

New Primavera Flower Tunic

12/11/2015 by Dada Filed Under: Free crochet patterns 31 Comments

Do you remember my post about New Primavera Square, in which I was talking about how I had started a poncho? Yes, I started a poncho, but somehow it turned out into a tunic. And I’m pretty happy with the result! This is my first tunic ever, which I made without any pattern, just playing around with the squares, using trial and error method, which works quite well for me. Almost all of my color combinations and designs are results of using this method. I’m not afraid of errors. I consider them just as indicators that something didn’t work. Let’s do it again, to see what will work! It’s that simple.

New Primavera flower granny square free pattern

For this tunic I used 100% cotton yarn “Golf” from St. George, and 3.5 mm crochet hook. The yarn is 125m/50g. The square measures approximately 12 x 12 cm (4.7″ x 4.7″)

My New Primavera granny square is almost the same as the old Primavera flower square. I just make some small changes, because I wanted a little bigger square, which in the end proved unnecessary, because the tunic turned out a little to big for me. If I used my old Primavera square it would probably suite me better.

I made this crochet chart and written pattern in case you’d like to use the square for one of your own crochet projects. It’s very easy and quick to make, and you can use it for variety of things, like blankets, pillows, bags, scarfs… And one more good thing. It looks good in two colors as well as in 4 colors (old Primavera Flower square)

Color A is gold, color B is brown

Begin with a magic ring.
Rnd 1: Color A
ch-4 in ring (counts as dc and ch-1), * dc in ring, ch-1; repeat from * 6 more times. Close the ring. Join with slip st to initial ch-4 space (8 dc)
Rnd 2: Color A
Make Beginning Popcorn, then ch-4; * Popcorn in next ch-1 space, chain-4; repeat from * six more times, join with slip stitch to Beginning Popcorn. (8 Popcorn stitches with ch-4 between each Popcorn)
Rnd 3: Color B
Join color B in any ch-4 spaces of the second round, make beginning Cluster (tr3tog – treble crochet three together), ch-3, tr3tog in same ch-4 space, ch-3, * (tr3tog, ch-3, tr3tog) in next ch-4 space, ch-3; Repeat from * 6 more times; Join with slip st to top of beginning Cluster (16 tr3tog with ch-3 between each tr3tog)
Rnd 4: Color B
Make slip st to next ch-3 space, ch-3 (counts as dc), 2 dc in same space, ch-1, * 3 dc in next ch-3 space, ch-1, (3 tr, ch-3, 3 tr) in next ch-3 space, ch-1, (3 dc in next space, ch-1) twice; repeat from * 2 more times, 3 dc in next space, ch-1, (3 tr, ch-3, 3 tr) in next space, ch-1, 3 dc in next space, ch-1, join with slip st to top of initial ch-3.
Rnd 5: Color B
Make slip st in 2 next dc, (sc in next ch-1 space, ch-5) twice, * (sc, ch-5, sc) in next ch-3 space of the corner, (ch-5, sc in next ch-1 space) four times, ch-5; Repeat from * 2 more times, (sc, ch-5, sc) in next ch-3 space, (ch-5, sc in next ch-1 space) twice, ch-5, join with slip st to first sc or make an invisible join.

When I joined all the squares together, the collar looked a little, I don’t know, maybe boring, or somehow unfinished, so I added 6 additional rows. In that way I decreased the collar and added a little finishing touch, which in my opinion raised the collar and the whole tunic to a higher level. I made a crochet chart for the collar, and wrote the pattern, so who knows, maybe some of you will find it useful.

Row 1: sc in ch-5 space, ch-4
Row 2: sc, hdc, dc, ch-1, dc, hdc, sc in ch-4 space
Row 3: sc in ch-1 space, ch-3
Row 4: 5 sc in every ch-3 space
Row 5: sc in third sc, ch-4
Row 6: sc, hdc, dc, Picot-3, dc, hdc, sc in each ch-4 space

In case you aren’t familiar with my “old” Primavera flower square, you can find the detailed step-by-step tutorial with lots of photographs here.

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This is the end of the story about poncho, I mean, tunic. Till the next story, have a beautiful, colorful and creative week!