Hooked on the Holidays: Crafting an Ugly Christmas Sweater Blanket- Part 6- Colored Blocks

 

Season’s greetings no matter when fellow crochet enthusiasts! Welcome to a world of vibrant creativity! As the holiday season approaches, our adventure through the Ugly Christmas Sweater Blanket continues, and this time, we're diving into a pile of Colored Blocks! 

 🎄 Imagine a canvas that's as vibrant as a holiday market filled with festive decorations. With the Colored Blocks section, your stitches will come to life in a symphony of colors, creating a blanket that's as unique as the holiday season itself.

🎄 While embarking on the journey of Colored Blocks might seem like a color puzzle, fear not! We're here to guide you through every step, helping you create blocks that harmonize and dance with the spirit of the holidays.

🎄 The beauty of this section lies in the freedom it offers for experimentation. Select your color combinations, play with shades, and let your creative juices flow as you crochet a masterpiece that mirrors your personality.

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"Ugly Christmas Sweater" Sampler Blanket

by Elizabeth Mareno © 2018

Materials for Entire Blanket:

Worsted Weight/10 ply/Aran yarn- I Love This Yarn (Solids- 7oz/355yds, Metallic- 5oz/252yds)
Colors: White- 4-1/2 skeins
              Metallic Red- 1-1/2 skeins
                Red- 1 skein
                Green- 2 skeins
                Blue- 1-1/2 skeins
                Yellow- ¾ skein
                Orange- ¾ skein
                Brown- 3 oz
Scrap amounts of dark brown for reindeer faces.

Colors used in the original blanket:

Center Peppermint Candy- Uses white, sparkly red, and green.

Christmas Lights- Uses white, blue, yellow, and orange.

Argyle- Uses blue and white.

Candy Stripes 1 & 2- Uses Sparkly red and white.

Snowballs & Icicles- Uses green and white.

Colored Blocks- Uses white, blue, yellow, and orange.

Reindeer Bobbles- Uses regular red, green, and brown.

Marshmallows- Uses white.

Holly Berry Edge- Uses blue, green, and sparkly red.

#7/4.5mm hook

Large eye needle for sewing ends.

Gauge is not important in this pattern. However, if you would like to make sure you match me, here is the gauge swatch: 

ch21, sc in 2^nd ch and each one across (20)
R2-20- ch1, turn, sc in each.
16sc x 18 rows= 4” x 4”
with a #7-4.5mm hook

General Abbreviations and Special Stitches/Notes:

Ch- chain
sc- single crochet
hdc- half double crochet
dc- double crochet
trc- treble crochet
Fptr- front post treble crochet
MR- Magic Ring
ar – around
rnds- rounds

PC- Popcorn- 5dc in the stitch indicated, drop the loop from your hook, reinsert hook into the first dc and in the dropped loop, pull a loop through all.

Picot: ch3, sl st in 3^rd ch from hook

Ch2 counts as hdc unless otherwise noted.
Ch3 counts as dc unless otherwise noted.
Ch4 counts as trc unless otherwise noted.
Ch6 counts as dc and ch3 unless otherwise noted.

Pattern for Part 6- Video Tutorial Available Here :

Colored Blocks- start with white

Rd49- sl st to corner, [(sc, ch3, sc) in corner, in BLO sc in each sc across] 4x. Join in first sc. (128/side) 

Cut color.

Rd50- with blue, join in corner with ch1, [(sc, ch3, sc) in corner, working in BL – sc in 2 sc, (working in open loops fr rnd 48 – dc in 4, working in BL fr rnd 49 – sc in 4) across to last 6 sts, working in open loop fr rnd 48 – dc in 4, in BL sc in 2] x4.  Join. (130/side) 

Do not cut color

Rd51- sl st to corner, ch1, [(sc, ch3, sc) in corner, in BL only sc in each st across] x4.  Join with 1^st sc.  (132/side).  

Cut color

Rd52- with yellow, join in corner with ch1, [(sc, ch3, sc) in corner, in BL only – sc in 2, working in open loops fr rnd 49 – dc in 2, (in BL only – sc in 4, in open loops fr rnd 49 – dc in 4) across to last 8 sts, sc in BL of next 4, working in open loop fr rnd 49 – dc in 2, in BL only sc in 2] x4.  Join. (134/side) 

Do not cut color

Rd53- sl st to corner, ch1, [(sc, ch3, sc) in corner, in BL only sc in each st across] x4.  Join with 1^st sc.  (136/side).  

Cut color

Rd54- with white, join in corner with ch1, [(sc, ch3, sc) in corner, in BL only sc in 2, working in open loops from rnd 51 – dc in 2, in BL only sc in 2, (working in open loops fr rnd 51 – dc in 4, in BL – sc in 4) across to last 10 sts, working in open loop fr rnd 51 – dc in 4, in BL sc in 2, dc in 2, in BL sc in 2] x4.  Join (138/side) 

Do not cut color

Rd55- sl st to corner, ch1, [(sc, ch3, sc) in corner, in BL only sc in each st across] x4.  Join with 1^st sc.  (140/side).  

Cut color

Rd56- with orange, join in corner with ch1, [(sc, ch3, sc) in corner, in BL only sc in 2, working in open loops from rnd 53 – dc in 2, in BL only sc in 2, working in open loops from rnd 53 – dc in 2  ( in BL – sc in 4, working in open loops fr rnd 53 – dc in 4) across to last 12 sts, in BL sc in 4, working in open loop fr rnd 53 – dc in 2, in BL sc in 2, working in open loop fr rnd 53 – dc in 2, in BL sc in 2] x4.  Join (142/side) 

Cut color

Rd57- with white, join in corner with ch1, [(sc, ch3, sc) in corner, BL only sc in 1, working in open loops from rnd 55 – hdc in 2, BL only sc in 2, working in open loops from rnd 55 – hdc in 2, BL only sc in 2, (working in open loops from rnd 55 – hdc in 4, BL only sc in 4) across to last 13 stitches, working in open loops from rnd 55 – hdc in 4, BL only sc in 2, working in open loops from rnd 55 – hdc in 2, BL only sc in 2, working in open loops from rnd 55 – hdc in 2, BL only sc in 1] x4.  Join.  (144/side) 

Do not cut color

Rd58- sl st to corner, ch1, [(sc, ch3, sc) in corner, in BL only sc in each st across] x4.  Join with 1^st sc.  (146/side).  

Do not cut color

Rd59- sl st to corner, ch1, [(2sc, ch2, 2sc) in corner, in both loops sc in each st across] x4.  Join.  (150/side).  

Cut color

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