You know when you're just sitting on the sofa, in-between projects.... but its 9.00pm and you cant be bothered to go and find the new stuff for the new planned project? Well, that was me a couple of weeks ago.
I had just finished the Stained Glass Blanket and had plans to start something new, but in the meantime... and I mean that last hour and a half before heading to bed, I needed something to occupy my hands. I took my feet off the yarn pouffe that I have in the living room, full of half balls of left over yarn from previous projects, and pulled out three colours that I thought would work well together... I already had a part ball of black beside me from the recently finished piece.
When I put these balls together I thought 'Wow!, that's so 70's'... and from then on this blanket was named the 70's Vibe Blanket. Now, I needed a pattern to go with the 70's vibe colours, something strong and bold.... and I thought the very first square from my Stained Glass Blanket would work perfectly!
The colours I used for the 70's Vibe were Stylecraft Special DK in Dandelion, Teal and Apple, along with the black for the line work. My favourite hook is a Clover Amour and I used 4.50mm.
This is a nice easy square and a good introduction to Mosaic Crochet... if you can crochet a Granny Square you can do this!
I made 36 square in total which creates a lovely lap sized blanket measuring about one meter square.
I did 6 different colourways of squares and joined them so that each one would run diagonally under the one above.
If you fancy having a go at this, the video is here....
The stitch shown in red is the centre stitches of
the side.
Always work in the BACK LOOP for DC and FRONT
LOOP (row below) for TR.
Round
1: Magic Ring,
DC 8 into ring, Close and SS to back loop of first st.
Round
2: BLACK:
(3dc in corner), 1dc (reverse & repeat)
Round
3: (3dc in
corner), 3dc (reverse & repeat)
Round
4: BLACK: (3 dc in corner) 2dc, 1tr (reverse & repeat)
Round
5: (3dc in corner), 7dc (reverse
& repeat)
Round
6: (3dc in corner), 9dc (reverse
& repeat)
Round
7: BLACK: (3dc in corner), 11dc (reverse & repeat)
Round
8: (3dc in corner), 13dc (reverse & repeat)
Round
9: BLACK: (3 dc in corner) 1dc, 1tr,
2dc, 1tr, 2dc, 1tr (reverse & repeat)
Round
10: (3dc in corner), 17dc (reverse & repeat)
Round
11: (3dc in corner), 19dc (reverse & repeat)
Round
12: BLACK: (3 dc in corner), 21dc (reverse & repeat)
And you can follow my colourway here...
Make 6 of each colourway
Round 1: sq1 BLUE / sq2 BLUE / sq3 GREEN / sq4 GREEN / sq5 YELLOW / sq6 YELLOW
Round 2: BLACK
Round 3 sq1 BLUE / sq2 BLUE / sq3 GREEN / sq4 GREEN / sq5 YELLOW / sq6 YELLOW
Round 4: BLACK
Round 5-6: sq1 GREEN / sq2 YELLOW / sq3 BLUE / sq4 YELLOW / sq5 BLUE / sq6 GREEN
Round 7: BLACK
Round 8: 1 BLUE / 2 BLUE / sq3 GREEN / sq4 GREEN / sq5 YELLOW / sq6 YELLOW
Round 9: BLACK
Round 10-11: sq1 YELLOW / sq2 GREEN / sq3 YELLOW / sq4 BLUE / sq5 GREEN / sq6 BLUE
Round 12: BLACK
If you need a tutorial for joining the squares, I used the invisible seam which you can find here...
For the border I simply worked in rounds with black in-between the colours.
I really hope you enjoy making one of these 70's inspired blankets, please tag me on Instagram and Facebook if you do - Sooz in The Shed.
Until next time.... HAPPY HOOKING!
Oh, and just for transparency, if you buy anything from Amazon using the links I provided I get a small commission. just pennies if I remember rightly, but it doesn't cost you a bean :)