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Chevron blanket: a striped ripple in single crochet

Chain 122, then work the chevron row 121 stitches wide on every row, changing color every 4 rows in the order A, B, C. 120 rows make 10 stripe cycles.

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Flat rowsUS termsHook: 5 mm (US H-8), or the size that gives you gaugeSize from your washed swatchworsted yarn

Know these stitches: single crochet, chevron stitch, single crochet decrease

The finished chevron blanket.

Materials and yarn planning

Yarns we’ve reviewed that suit it: Lion Brand Basic Stitch Anti-Pilling yarn, Lion Brand Heartland yarn, Lion Brand Wool-Ease worsted yarn. For the hook, choose by size and handle.

For an exact figure in your own yarn, weigh a washed swatch in the pattern stitch: the weighed-swatch yarn calculator scales it to each flat panel or strip. Allow a little more for seams, edging and tails.

Finished size and gauge

The peak-to-peak width is 121 × 10 ÷ S cm with S single crochets per 10 cm, measured along a straight row. Change the width by 10 stitches (one more point) at a time.

The shape of the chevron blanket

The shape of the chevron blanket.

Sizes from your swatch

Example: 14 single crochets and 16 rows in 10 cm. Type your own swatch over it to see your counts.

Common blanket sizes; stitches rounded to whole chevron points (10 plus 1), rows to whole 12-row stripe cycles.
SizeWidthLengthStitchesRows
Lap91.4 cm (36 in)121.9 cm (48 in)131 (chain 132)192
Throw127 cm (50 in)152.4 cm (60 in)181 (chain 182)240
Twin bed167.6 cm (66 in)228.6 cm (90 in)231 (chain 232)360
Full bed203.2 cm (80 in)228.6 cm (90 in)281 (chain 282)360

Counts are rounded to whole stitches and rows and to the pattern’s repeat. Check the first rows against your swatch.

The gauge calculator compares your swatch with the pattern. A stitch name you do not know is in the abbreviation chart; a UK pattern’s names are in the US/UK term reference.

The pattern

Count rows for this pattern

The chevron row

  1. With A, chain 122. Work the chevron row into the chain, starting in the second chain from the hook: single crochet two together, single crochet in the next 3 chains, then [3 single crochets in the next chain, single crochet in the next 3 chains, single crochet three together, single crochet in the next 3 chains] 11 times, then 3 single crochets in the next chain, single crochet in the next 3 chains and single crochet two together over the last 2 chains: 121 stitches.
  2. Every later row: chain 1 and turn, and work the same sequence into the stitches: sc2tog, 3 sc, then the repeat, then 3 sc in the peak stitch, 3 sc, sc2tog. Peaks sit above peaks.

Stripes

  1. Work 4 rows in each color: A, then B, then C. Change color on the last pull-through of the row before a new stripe.
  2. Repeat the 12-row cycle 10 times: 120 rows. Fasten off and weave each color’s ends into its own stripe.

Check the work

Each row: 121 stitches and 12 peaks. The repeat uses 10 stitches and makes 10, so the count never changes.

Stitches in every row121 · 121 · 121
  • If a peak drifts, find the middle stitch of the 3-sc group below and work the next peak into it.
  • If the edges flare, check the sc2tog at both ends of every row.

Updated . Stitch counts checked row by row; we haven’t crocheted a sample of this one yet. How the patterns are checked. Keep your yarn label, hook and swatch on the printable project worksheet.

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