Hooked on the Holidays: Crafting an Ugly Christmas Sweater Blanket- Part 2- Christmas Lights

 

Season's greetings no matter when, fellow crochet enthusiasts! If you're as excited about the holiday season as I am, you're in for a real treat. Our crochet sampler blanket is taking shape, and it's about to light up your crafting world! In this installment of our 9-part series, we're diving into the captivating world of Christmas lights. Get ready to weave a thread of holiday magic through your stitches!

 🎄 What's the holiday season without the twinkling beauty of Christmas lights? Let's transform that enchanting glow into crochet stitches that'll warm your heart.

🎄 Choose your favorite color palette and experiment with different variegated or solid-colored yarns. Craft a strand of lights that's uniquely yours.

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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 2- Video Tutorial Available Here:

Christmas Lights- start with white 

Rd13- join in corner w/ch3, (dc, ch2, 2dc) in corner, [*dc in each*, (2dc, ch2, 2dc) in corner] 3x, repeat * to * once. Join with ch3. (40dc/side) 

cut color.

Rd14- with blue, join in corner w/ch6 (cts as dc & ch3), dc in same corner, [*ch2, sk2dc, (PC in next, ch5, sk4) 7x, PC in next, ch2, sk2*, (dc, ch3, dc) in corner] 3x, repeat * to * once.  Join in 3ch of ch6. (8PC/side) 

Cut color.

Rd15- with white, join in corner w/ch1, [(2sc, ch3, 2sc) in corner, sc in dc, working around ch’s from R14- dc in 2 open dc from Rd13, (sc in PC, working around ch’s- dc in 4) 7x, sc in PC, dc in last 2, sc in dc] 4x. Join with sc. (46/side) 

Do not cut color.

Rd16- sl st to corner, ch1, [(sc, ch3, sc) in corner, sc in each st across] 4x. Join with first sc. (48/side) 

cut color.

Rd17- with yellow, join in corner w/ch6, dc in same sp, [*ch3, sk3, PC in next, ch5, sk5, PC in next, (ch5, sk4, PC in next) 7x, ch3, sk3*, (dc, ch3, dc) in corner] 3x, repeat * to * once. Join with 3^rd ch of ch6. (9PC/side) 

cut color.

Rd18- with white, join in corner with ch1, [(2sc, ch3, 2sc) in corner, sc in dc, working around ch’s from previous rd- dc in 3sc, sc in PC, dc in 5sc, sc in PC, (dc in 4sc, sc in PC) 7x, dc in 3, sc in dc] 4x. Join with first sc. (54/side) 

Do not cut color.

Rd19- repeat Rd 16. (56/side) 

Cut color.

Rd20- with orange, join in corner with ch6, dc in same sp, [*(ch5, sk5, PC) 2x, (ch5, sk4, PC) 8x, ch5, sk last 4*, (dc, ch3, dc) in corner] 3x, repeat * to * once. Join with 3^rd ch of ch6. (10PC/side) 

cut color.

Rd21- with white, join in corner with ch1, [(2sc, ch3, 2sc) in corner, sc in dc, working around ch from prev rd- (dc in 5, sc in PC) 2x, (dc in 4, sc in PC) 8x, dc in 4, sc in dc] 4x. Join with first sc. (62/side) 

do not cut color.

Rd22- sl st to corner, ch1, [(sc, ch3, sc) in corner, sc in each st] 4x. Join with first sc. (64/side) cut color.

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