V-stitch Blanket

 

After making so many baby jackets and hats in the last couple of months,
I was left with loads of small amounts of lots of different colours.

 

So..... I decided to make a V-stitch blanket

 

Marianna's V-stitch Blanket

  

This stitch is much easier to DO than to explain !!

If you can make granny squares..... then...... you CAN make this blanket !

All you need to know is how to chain,
and how to make a treble crochet stitch (UK) or double crochet (US)
 

There are also many internet tutorials that might help you

 

 

Basically - make a foundation  or starting chain of the length you want, depending on your yarn thickness. Using DK (8ply) yarn and a 4mm crochet hook I made a chain of 105sts - this has given me a width of  28" (71cm)

 

First Row

Make a treble (UK) stitch in the 5th chain from the hook, make 1 chain, then another treble in the same stitch ............. this makes the first V

 

Miss the next chain, then, make (1 treble, 1 chain, 1 treble) in the next stitch

 

Continue this all across the row, ending with 1 treble in the last stitch

 

 Next Row

 

 Chain 3sts, turn

 

Make a V-stitch in every V-stitch of the previous row, and end with 1 treble in the last stitch

 

Repeat last row as many times as desired ............

 

That's all there is to it! Change colour every row if you want a stripey effect

 

 

 

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However ~ I call this my 'Seven Row, Stop and Sew Blanket'

 

I really can't bear to sew or darn away all the ends when the blanket is complete ........ so I make myself stop and do this after every seven rows.

 

Well ..... if I am really honest ..... sometimes after a few glasses of happy juice (vino) on a Saturday night I don't really manage to actually do this ........ the blanket grows so quickly ..........  but I catch up as soon as I can :)