Crazy Crochet Chevron Blanket

For a relatively small blanket, this zigzag chevron blanket seemed to take forever. I’ve made crocheted chevrons before, but not for a long time. I now know why. Every stitch is so small that the build-up is mega slow (yet very much worth it).

Crochet Chevron Blanket

It took a good week to get into the flow of the zigzag stitches. Once I could see that the colours were making me happy, I sped up and started to enjoy the rhythm of it. It’s a classic crochet chevron pattern, with stitches worked in the back loops only. I used this chevron pattern from Meet me at Mike’s, which has step-by-step photos.

I think I worked 11 multiples of the stitches, maybe 12. I thought that would create plenty of width, but it’s actually a lot smaller than I was aiming for. The nature of the stitch created a concertina effect, with it squishing in on itself dramatically. If I stretch it out, it does look bigger, and I think that if I give it a wash, it should settle down more.

Adding a Crochet Border to Zigzag Blankets

The border was a bit of a pain. I knew I wanted the blanket to have a crochet border, and I also knew that many zigzag blankets don’t have them. Probably for a good reason! The valleys and peaks created by the stitch mean that you have to fill those spaces in.

Sadly, I no longer have links to the ones I used to make the border. However, all the yellow bits in the pic below are worked separately. Then the blue was sort of “coloured in” in the spaces.

I wish I hadn’t added a second row of the cloud blue dc stitches (US single crochets) over the top. It looks a bit messy, and it really doesn’t need to be there. By the time I’d got to this section, though, I’d already unpicked a first, super-ugly border attempt. I was fed up. I just could not be bothered to do it all again (I’d already gone round with the grey at this point too, as I had done the first time too). So if anyone out there fancies having a go, perhaps don’t add a second row of blue!

Crochet Bobble Edging

I thought the grey was going to be the final colour, but the blanket’s recipient (Youngest boy) came over and told me that he wanted the neon pink. He knew what he was talking about. It looks fabulous. I seriously love it! You know, I think grey would have been nice on its own, but now it really pops!  (and I don’t use that word lightly-  I never ever say “pops”).

There isn’t really a pattern for the full border in its entirety; it’s just pairs of 2 UK treble stitches sitting next to each other and ch1, miss a stitch. It would look something like this in a pattern:

UK terms – Round 1: *2tr, miss 1 st, ch1; rep from * around.
US terms – Round 1: *2dc, sk 1 st, ch1; rep from * around.

The bobbles/pompoms are a little stitch pattern I came up with when I crocheted a Touch of Spice blanket nearly a year ago. This time I chained 6, not 7, made my tr5tgr in the 4th ch from hook and chained 2 rather than 3.
Pop over to the Pompom Edging blog post and take a closer look.

Order of Yarn Colours

Essentially, this was a crochet stashbuster of a blanket. I had so much Stylecraft Special dk acrylic that it needed to be made into something lovely and not stuck alone in the dark cupboard under the stairs.

I’m going to say that it was mostly random colour choices, but there is a pattern repeat:

• Six rows of one colour,
• 3x two rows of different colours,
• 4 rows of another colour,
• 2x two rows of different colours,
• finishing with six rows again.

I’ll also tell you the colours because I’m super proud that I remember them all off the top of my head: Fiesta, Grey, Citron, Wisteria, Aspen, Shrimp, Sherbet, Cloud, Kelly, Apricot, Lobelia, Fuschia, Plum, Pistachio.

And I’ve still got enough to make another sort of blanket…because there’s a chance I might have gone out and bought some more… you know, to make up the colours….Soooo…. what next? Granny squares or treble chevrons, maybe a sunburst? I’m torn.

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