18 November 2010

Sarafia blanket - pattern

I just love love this blanket.
I'm sure I've said it before - but I named the blanket Sarafia cause I was inspired from Sara and Sofia when I made it.

I wanna share it with you and hope that you will love it as much as I do.


Square:
Start with color A.
Ch 5, join together in a circle with a sl st.

Rnd 1: Ch 3 (counts as 1st dc), 2 dc into the ring, ch 3, 3 dc, ch 3, 3 dc, ch 3, 3 dc, ch 3, join with a sl st in 3rd ch.
Break off and change to color B.

(Note: you will always be starting each round with the last dc of the round)
Rnd 2: Join in the last ch space of last rnd. Ch 5 (counts as 1 dc, ch 2), *in next ch space do 3 dc, ch 3, 3 dc, 2 ch* repeat this two more times. In the last ch sp do 3 dc, ch 3, 2 dc, join with sl st in 3rd ch.

Rnd 3: Ch 5 (counts as 1 dc, ch 2), *1 dc in each dc of prev rnd (total 3 dc), in the corner you do 2 dc, ch 3, 2 dc, 1 dc in each dc of prev round, ch 2* repeat from * to * till the end of the rnd, join with sl st in 3rd ch.

Rnd 4: Ch 5 (counts as 1 dc, ch 2), *1 dc in each dc of prev rnd (total 5 dc), in the corner you do 2 dc, ch 3, 2 dc, 1 dc in each dc of prev round, ch 2* repeat from * to * till the end of the rnd, join with sl st in 3rd ch.

Rnd 5: Ch 5 (counts as 1 dc, ch 2), *1 dc in each dc of prev rnd (total 7 dc), in the corner you do 2 dc, ch 3, 2 dc, 1 dc in each dc of prev round, ch 2* repeat from * to * till the end of the rnd, join with sl st in 3rd ch.
Break off and go back to color A.

Rnd 6: Join where you left off in the prev rnd or in 3rd ch. Ch 5 (counts as 1 dc, ch 2), *1 dc in each dc of prev rnd (total 9 dc), in the corner you do 2 dc, ch 3, 2 dc, 1 dc in each dc of prev round, ch 2* repeat from * to * till the end of the rnd, join with sl st in 3rd ch.


Amount:
I have 48 squares in my blanket.
I mainly use 3 colors, there's one main color that has 24 squares and then the other two have 12 squares each.

Joining:
There are many ways to join squares but there is one I like the most. I think it's called back loop join - or something like that. You take the squares together with the wrong side (or the back side) turning to you - or right sides together. Then you sl st only the back loops together.

Border:
I always start with one round of sc all the way around the blanket. There's no one way to that suits it best - I've done more than one. Just try what ever you like and see how it turns out.
I have a few borders
here on my blog - but their all in Icelandic though.

If you see any errors or just have pointers on what might bet better done in this pattern please let me know - elinella@hotmail.com

12 comments:

  1. So excited to give this a try! Thank you for sharing.

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  2. GORGEOUS Pattern! Can't wait to give it a go!

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  3. Just printed this out, so pretty. Thanks so much for the pattern.

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    1. Your welcome. Glad to hear you like it :)

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  4. I love this blanket, Im all ready for it, but what does this mean? Ch 5 (counts as 1 dc, ch 2), the first chain 5 counts as first DC...but then I chain 2 making it a ch7 total?

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    1. There are 5 ch in total - 3 of them count as the 1st DC and the other 2 ch count as just 2 ch. You don't need to add any more chains.

      Hope this helps.

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  5. Approximately, what was the length for each square? I'm trying to figure out how much yarn I need for about a queen sized blanket.

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  6. I love this so much! It's going to be my next project thanks so much for sharing <3

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  7. TY so much for this pattern. I was on you tube and I came across a blanket I wanted to make but couldnt find the pattern for it. Well , Im here to tell you , this is the one!!! ((((hugs)))))

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  8. Thank you for this pattern. See on my blog.....a great idea for a new project!!!

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