Northern Zealand Blanket

I am so happy to finally be able to reveal the final result – my first Tunisian crochet full stitch blanket. Actually it didn’t take that long to make – I started in late February and finished mid-May – but I did try to crochet almost every day. (Free pattern below)

I am in love with the Tunisian full stitch – I just love the look it creates – and I am already thinking about the design for my next blanket. This blanket with many colors is also a great way to use up leftover yarn.

I couldn’t find many patterns or tutorials for the Tunisian full stitch, so I decided to write down the full pattern for this blanket. I hope it might inspire you to also give the full stitch a try – and if you have any questions, you are more than welcome to leave a comment. You can download the free pattern in pdf format here, - you can also find it on Ravelry here, in case you want to save it to your library there. Please note that I use US crochet terms. 

Here a brief overview of my blanket! J

The blanket is made using the Tunisian full stitch. For this you will need a Tunisian crochet hook that can hold all the loops of the blanket. I used acrylic yarn and a crochet hook 4.5 mm for yarn that required a 4.0 mm hook (you often go up ½ to 1 size when doing Tunisian crochet). I chained 200 and did a total of 280 rows. The border is single crochet, finished off by slip stitch all around the blanket in the last row of single crochet. The blanket measures 118 x 138 cm and weighs 1050 g. I used 14 different colors and a random stripe scheme where each row is a different color.

As you can see, the back is very different from the front of the blanket.   

On the picture below, you can see how to make sure the border is even - by inserting the hook above the horizontal lines in one row (lines indicated by the red arrows).

If you have any questions, please leave me a comment below. I hope you will feel inspired to also give this blanket a try.

Enjoy!