Add a splash of color to your home with this Lagoon Lines Crochet Blanket free pattern. Featuring simple Tunisian stitches and bold stripes, this design is both relaxing to make and stunning to display.
Size & Skill Level
- Skill Level: Easy
- Finished Size: Approx 46″ x 58″ (117 x 147.5 cm), excluding fringe
Gauge
- 10 sts and 10 rows = 4″ (10 cm) in Tunisian Crochet Pattern
- Note: 1 row = Forward Pass + Return Pass
Materials Needed
- Yarn: Medium Weight #4
- Red Heart® Super Saver® O’Go™
- Contrast A: Peacock – 6 O’Gos
- Contrast B: Gold – 2 O’Gos
- Hooks:
- 8 mm (US L/11) Tunisian crochet hook
- 6 mm (US J/10) crochet hook (for edging)
- Notions:
- Yarn needle
Abbreviations
- Approx = Approximately
- Beg = Beginning
- Ch = Chain(s)
- Pat = Pattern
- Rem = Remaining
- Rep = Repeat
- RS = Right side
- Sc = Single crochet
- Sl st = Slip stitch
- St(s) = Stitch(es)
- Tog = Together
- Tss = Tunisian simple stitch
- Yoh = Yarn over hook
Instructions
Notes
- To begin working with the O’Go format, carefully cut plastic tie where the ends of the O’Go meet.
- Pull tie to remove and start crocheting!
- When joining new O’Gos, try to join shade at same point in stripe repeat to keep continuity of the color repeat
- Extra yarn pulled out for matching stripes can be used during Finishing for fringe
- Carry A when not in use loosely up side of work
- To join new color work to last loops on hook of previous color. Yoh with new color and proceed
- Work into horizontal bumps at back of foundation chain for 1st row.
Blanket
With Tunisian hook and A, ch 146 loosely.
1st row: Forward pass (Right to left): Draw up a loop in 2nd ch from hook. Draw up a loop in each remaining ch to end of chain, leaving all loops on hook. 146 sts on hook. Do not turn.
Return pass (Left to right): Yoh and draw through last loop only. *Yoh and draw through 2 loops. Rep from * until 1 loop remains. Do not turn.
2nd to 5th rows:
Forward pass: *1 Tss in next st. Rep from * to end of row. Do not turn.
Return pass.
6th row: Forward pass: With A, draw up a loop in 2nd ch from hook and across. 146 sts on hook. Do not turn. Drop A. Join B. Return pass with B.
7th row: With B, draw up a loop in 2nd ch from hook. Draw up a loop in each rem ch to end of chain, leaving all loops on hook. 146 sts on hook. Do not turn. Drop B. Join A. Return pass with A.
8th to 11th rows:
Repeat 6th and 7th rows twice more. Break B at end of last row.
12th to 17th rows:
With A, work as 2nd row.
Repeat 6th to 17th rows for Stripe Pattern until work measures approx 46″ (117 cm), ending on a 17th row. Fasten off.
Side Facing
1st row (RS): With U.S. J/10 (6 mm) crochet hook, join A with sl st in bottom right corner
of Blanket. Ch 3 (counts as dc). Working in back loop only of each st across last row of Blanket, work 1 row of dc evenly along side edge to opposite corner. Fasten off. Fold Facing to WS of Blanket, pin in position and whip stitch in place (this will prevent curling edges).
Rep along opposite side in back loops only of first row of Blanket.
Block side edges of Blanket by pinning onto a flat surface, covering with a damp cloth and allowing cloth to dry
Fringe
Cut strands of A and B 14″ (35.5 cm) long.
Taking 3 strands together, fold in half and knot fringe across both ends, matching stripe pattern (see image on page 2). Trim evenly.
Wrap Up
The Lagoon Lines Crochet Blanket is a vibrant and beginner-friendly Tunisian project. With its rhythmic stitches and colorful stripes, it’s a relaxing make that results in a bold and cozy statement piece.
