Crochet Rose Bouquet Blanket: The Round Blanket That Becomes Flowers

Spread it on a bed and this is a round blanket with a border of roses. Pick it up by the middle and the border gathers at the bottom, so the whole blanket hangs like a giant bouquet. It's a big project, but not a hard one: the body is a simple circle of double crochet, repeated until it's as big as you want.

The part that needs planning is the last round, because the border repeats every 8 stitches. Below is the circle Elise uses on her lilthings channel and how to work out when to stop.

Video tutorial by Elise on her YouTube channel, lilthings: watch "crochet flower blanket bouquet🌼 crochet rose bouquet blanket for beginner" on YouTube.

Written from the video. Check your own stitch counts against the rule below before you start the border.

Materials

• 5-ply milk cotton: lots of white or cream for the circle, green for the leaves, and pink, red or yellow for the roses
• 3.0 mm hook
• Stitch markers, scissors and a darning needle

The circle

The circle is divided into 12 sections, separated by a chain 1 "spoke" that runs from the centre to the edge.

• Round 1: 12 dc in a magic ring.
• Round 2: [2 dc in the next stitch, chain 1] × 12.
• Round 3: [1 dc, 2 dc in the next stitch, chain 1] × 12.
• Each round after that: one more plain dc before the increase in every section, and a chain 1 between sections.

Each section grows by 1 stitch a round, so the circle grows by 12. From round 2 on, counting each chain 1 as a stitch, a round has 12 × (round number + 1) stitches: round 3 has 48, round 10 has 132.

Put a marker in one spoke. If a section ever has more or fewer stitches than its neighbours, you'll see the spoke kink.

When to stop: the multiple-of-8 rule

The border repeats every 8 stitches: two leaves and one rose. So the last round of the circle must have a stitch count that's a multiple of 8.

With the formula above, that happens on every odd-numbered round:

Measure the blanket as you go, and stop on the first odd round where it's big enough. If your count differs from the table, use your own count: divide it by 8, and if it doesn't divide evenly, work one more round.

The border

• Leaves: with green, work pairs of leaves along the last two rounds, one pair in each 8-stitch repeat. Each leaf is a chain 3 with [1 sc, 1 hdc, 3 dc, 1 hdc, 1 sc] worked along it, angled diagonally across the edge.
• Roses: with the flower colours, work a 3D rosebud cluster into the green between each pair of leaves. Mixing pinks, reds and yellows round the border makes it look like a real bouquet.

Tips

• Keep the spokes straight. A kinked spoke means a section has gained or lost a stitch. Fix it in the round where it happens.
• Flat or wavy? A circle that ruffles has too many stitches for its tension; one that cups has too few. Go up or down a hook size rather than changing the pattern.
• Use the yarn calculator. A blanket like this uses a lot of yarn. The blanket size calculator and yarn yardage calculator help you estimate it.

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