![]() ![]() Grab your yarn and bring it back, wrap your yarn and take off two, wrap your yarn, and take off two. So I’m going to wrap my yarn and push right on top of that loop, so that gets you two loops on your hook. So I’m just focusing on that bottom edge, and I’m looking at that one strand. And how I do it, I hold my chain along the side like I would be working into it, so horizontally, and then I look for these little moon shapes at the bottom. I count these … The V’s are your stitches. Wrap your yarn, and into this fifth stitch where you were pinching, put your hook in. When your chain is as long as you want it to be, chain four more. So keep going, making multiples of five until it is the width you would like your blanket to be. But my hooks are downstairs, so I’m just going to chain really loose, and by chaining loose, I mean I’m not shrinking down that loop on my hook, I’m just leaving it as big as it is, like that. I would at least use a 6.5 or maybe even a seven millimeter hook, about one millimeter bigger than you’re going to be using for your blanket, just so your chain isn’t too tight. I would normally just go up a hook size anyway. If you make your chains tight, I would go up a hook size. ![]() And just keep going until it is the length that you want. One, two, three … Oops, four, five, pinch. ![]() So to do that, I’m just going to chain one, two, three, four, five, pinch it. So I am just going to chain multiples of five until it is the width that I like. Average baby blankets are 1.2 meters to 1.5 meters across. Shrink that loop down and put it onto your hook, and now we’re just going to chain the width of our blanket. And you want to leave a bit of a tail because we need to sew this in later with a needle, so don’t make it too short. I just wrap it around my two fingers, making an x, and poke it through the other side, and just pull it up. So get your yarn, and put the tail over the palm of your non dominant hand, hold it down on your ring finger with your thumb, and just make a slipknot, or make a slipknot any which way. It’ll be a bit more pliable of a textile. You can use whatever hook goes along with your yarn, and just go with the larger hook size so the blanket is softer. I’m using regular 4 weight acrylic, and I’m going to be using a six millimeter hook. We’re going to start just by making a slipknot and a chain. There is a row of single crochet on every single side, and the blanket looks great on both sides. It looks super complicated and it is not. It looks super complicated and like you super tried, but really all you’re doing is four double crochets, chain, and another double crochet, and all into the spaces, so it goes really quick, and it looks amazing. Today, we’re making this amazing drunken granny baby blanket. Hi, this is Christa at The Secret Yarnery. ![]()
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