Crochet Striped Blanket

If you enjoy mindless crochet patterns, then you will enjoy this crochet striped blanket. The color changes can be a bit annoying, but overall it’s a very relaxing and mindless pattern to work on. It is easy to adjust in size, making this the perfect crochet blanket to brighten up any room in the house.

The stitches are fairly solid, making this for a nice cozy blanket pattern for the winter.

And it’ll make for a nice gift idea for college students or anyone else.

The Size

The finished size of this free pattern is 64″ wide by 84″. It is perfect for a single bed, but can easily be adjusted to any size you want from a baby blanket, to a lapghan or a king size bed.

Refer to this Blanket Sizes Chart to help take the guesswork out as to what size you need.

The Yarn

You can use any yarn and hook size that you like. I used Red Heart Comfort yarn, which is an economic yarn. It is not my favorite yarn to work with, but it comes out nicely in the wash, and therefore, I do prefer the yarn for afghans and blankets.

Red Heart Super Saver and Bernat Super Value are two excellent alternatives.

The Stitch Pattern

The crochet stitch pattern is similar to the seed stitch, but instead of working both the single and double crochets into the same stitch, each stitch is worked separately into the row below. So the single crochet is worked into the double crochet, and the double crochet into the single crochet.

The Color Sequence

I worked this stripe blanket with four colors, using an off-white in between each row of the other three colors. But, you can work this up in any color design that you like. The stitch pattern also looks great with three colors changed after each row.

Another option would be an almost solid color with a few stripes at each end of the blanket.

The pattern instructs to work into the back loops only, but you can just as well work into both loops. Especially if you are a beginner, you’ll find it easier going under both.